Romney is the conscienceless liar the Republicans want to have as President. God help us if they get their way. We've already been taken through the grinding mill by the liars Cheney and Bush, who should be in prison right now for international crimes against humanity. Their tradition of lying without conscience, sacrificing innocent lives to achieve their secret agendas, will be continued in a Romney presidency. America can't live through another disastrous regime like that at its helm. We have already lost our greatness and are headed down the Last-Days-of-the-Roman-Empire route.
EXCERPT: Romney learned his skill as a liar from those days at Bain Capital – and he has put it to good use as a politician, taking opposite sides of issue after issue, from abortion rights to global warming to government mandates that citizens buy health insurance to whether stay-at-home mothers “work” or not.
Romney’s whole campaign is based on a cynical belief that Americans suffer from “amnesia” about what caused the nation’s economic mess and that they will simply blame President Obama for not quickly fixing it.
The guilty pleasure of watching the TV series “The Good Wife” – besides the scenes with Kalinda (the private investigator played by Archie Panjabi) – rests in the ethical ambiguities at the intersection of law and politics, a place where truth and morality are relative, sometimes useful but at other times sacrificed for profit, power or legal tactics.
Yet, the show recently introduced a new character, a lawyer-politician played by Matthew Perry who tells blatant lies. He coolly makes up conversations and circumstances that are total fabrications but also can’t be easily disproved. Even from the moral fog of her personal and professional life, The Good Wife character played by Julianna Margulies is shocked.
In Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney is the Matthew Perry character, a politician who cuts through the hazy world of political half-truths with the clarity of strategic lying. Indeed, he lies with a confidence that may be a special right of the well-connected rich who are beyond accountability. (For many examples of this sociopathic tendency in Romney, read the rest of the article. Also read Mitt Romney, the New Teflon Man at: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-parry/44294/mitt-romney-the-new-teflon-man)
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