Mitt Romney, Serial Liar

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Steve Benen is keeping track of Mitt’s mendacity. It’s a big job not enough people are doing. Mittens’s famous flip-flopping is almost a virtue in comparison.

And then there are the folks laid off by Mitt’s Bain Capital company.

Here’s the long version:

See also Paul Krugman, “Bain, Barack and Jobs.”

And don’t forget — Mitt wants to cut taxes on the wealthy even more.

Great Iowa Caucus postmortem — Necropolis Now.

8 thoughts on “Mitt Romney, Serial Liar”

  1. I like the Calvary cap the guy is wearing..it adds another dimension in the attack against Romney. Didn’t Romney do his tour of Vietnam walking around Paris wearing his magic underwear and preaching the word of Nephi?

  2. If we’re to believe the polls, the anyone-by-Romney contingent include a majority of Republicans. If his primary results reflect this, there could be a brokered convention at which a more palatable candidate (say, Jeb Bush) is drafted. This would, of course, reduce the time that the negatives of their chosen candidate would be exposed and wipe clean the slate of the primary battle.

    So it’s not time yet to break out the schadenfreude for what might well be a train-wreck of a Republican primary.

  3. (That’s “anyone-BUT-Romney.” Not sure what I typed, but spelling-correction only made it worse.)

  4. Thanks, that “Necropolis Now” article was terrific – Taibbian and Thompsonian.

    And at the end, he’s so right – if Pawlenty had stayed in, he’d have been right up there. And, as much as I can’t stand the SOB, you’ve got to admit, he’s a veritable Pericles amongst the pissants, pipsqueaks, and psychotics. He may be bland and awful as plain cottage cheese, but he’s not deep-fried offal dressed up with radioactive hot sauce.

    My 24 year-old niece, who’s a wonderful young lady working on her Doctorate in Oboe performance, has a 24 year-old boyfriend/fiancee who she’s been seeing for about 7 years. He’s a nice, hard-working, kind young man, a devout Catholic, who’s smart by today’s young-person standards,. All of that, and his father died when he was a young boy – and he’s a Republican.
    My family loves politics, but we have a couple of Right-wingers in the group, so we try to avoid talking about it about it if the group is mixed. Despite that, in my efforts to convert him, yesterday I asked him what he thought of Santorum, and he said he really likes him. I almost gagged. He saw the look in my eyes, and said “No politics today!” And my sister chimed in, because she’s tired of the arguing.
    So I didn’t get the details on why such a nice young guy would think highly of ‘The K-Street Torquemada.”
    I intend to next time. At least if Icky Sticky Rickey stays in contention. And I hope not. I may be able to sway him from Romney, with whom he has nothing in common. Nah, who am I kidding – the kid’ll probably vote for him anyway. He’s a Republican. Even though he gave me hope a few years ago after Obama was elected, when he admitted that Bush did, indeed, create some problems. Well, at least the kid’s not completely blind and stupid.
    Why would such a nice young man be a Republican?

  5. Robert Reich, Mitt, Son of Citizens United.

    …Romney and Citizens United were made for each other. Other candidates have quietly set up Super PACs of their own, and President Obama has his Super PAC already busily tapping into whatever reservoirs of big money it can find. But Mitt’s unique ties to the biggest money pits enable him to take unique advantage of the Court’s scurrilous invitation….

    …More than anyone else running for president, Mitt Romney personifies the top 1 percent in America — actually, the top one-tenth of one percent. It’s not just his four homes and estimated $200 million fortune, not just his wheeling and dealing in leveraged-buyouts and private equity, not even the jobless refugees of his financial maneuvers that makes him the Gordon Gekko of presidential aspirants.

    It’s his connections to the epicenters of big money in America — especially to top executives and financiers in the habit of investing for handsome returns. And there are almost no better returns than those found in tax benefits, government subsidies, loan guarantees, bailouts, regulatory exemptions, federal contracts, and trade deals generating hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars a year.

    Romney, in other words, is the candidate Citizens United created, the creature given life by Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito all playing Dr. Frankenstein.

    “Gordon Gecko with a Smile” another commenter wrote, of Romney.

    Why would such a nice young man be a Republican?

    The short answer is: Because they don’t know any better. And the Democrats, with few exceptions, present such a spineless GOP-lite alternative – why would anybody be impressed with them? The male, devout Catholic bit is also a tip-off – these people tend to be conservative (even though Jesus’ radicalism is completely lost on these people) – very unlikely for someone like this to stray far from their social conditioning.

  6. OT – Was cruising DailyKos last night, and discovered Familiarize Yourself with a Liberal Hero/The Fallacies of Austrian Economic Ideology, all about Steve Kangas, whose entry in wikipedia begins

    Steve Kangas (born Steven Robert Esh on 11 May 1961, died 8 February 1999) was a journalist, political activist and chess teacher known for his website Liberalism Resurgent and highly political usenet postings. Until 1986 he worked for military intelligence. His stay in Berlin turned him from a conservative into an outspoken liberal militant. His writings were sharply critical of business propaganda of the overclass and CIA.

    He died of a gunshot wound under unclear circumstances. He was found on the 39th floor in the restroom of the offices of Richard Mellon Scaife inside One Oxford Center, Pittsburgh. It was ruled a suicide by local police.

    Yeah, right, on the suicide ruling.

    Do check out Liberalism Resurgent – tightly organized, one stop shopping for liberal ideas and arguments. Kind of a cmpanion to Philip Agre’s What is Conservativism, and What is Wrong with It?.

  7. I’d be willing to bet Mittens that most of his sox are older than some of his beliefs!

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