The Truth Doesn't Matter to Willard Romney Anymore
The Truth Doesn't Matter to Willard Romney Anymore
By Charles P. Pierce
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As someone who watched him first against Ted Kennedy, and then, later, during his run for governor, I am really rather stunned at what a singularly appalling liar Mitt Romney has become. It is bone-deep with him now. His campaigns in 2008 and 2012 have made lies out of both campaigns he ran in Massachusetts and out of his entire tenure there as governor. He's all over this changing state, bloviating about how the president "doesn't want secret ballots" in union elections (no, I don't know what he was talking about, either) and about how the president "won't stand for right-to-work because he doesn't want workers to be free to decide to be part of a union or not." Trust me: Not only did this not come up in Massachusetts, but Willard would have hid under a blanket if it ever did. He did not run as a right-to-work governor. If he had, he really wouldn't be a "career politician."
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The lies are also bone-deep in Romney's campaign. His wife, of all people, told a complete fairy tale here on Friday night about how, "a year ago," she and Willard "were talking and had the same conversation so many of you have had out there, and we said we thought the country was going in the wrong direction, and I turned to Mitt and asked, 'Can you save the country?'"
Okay, now Ann Romney is a very nice lady, and a very brave one, but, honest to god, is there anyone not playing with their toes who believes that Willard Romney stepped into the fray a year ago out of patriotic altruism? Is there anyone not playing with their toes who believes that he he ever stopped running for president after 2008? Hell, the hardcover edition of his campaign book, No Apologies — the book he barbered to make its contents more palatable to a Republican primary audience as a paperback — is almost two years old. The truth simply has ceased to matter in this campaign.
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