This morning on GMA, Mitt Romney accused Barrack Obama of being fact challenged in debates.Has there ever been a more egregious version of the pot calling the kettle black?
MITT ROMNEY: I didn't happen to see that. But you know, I doubt we're going to pull out something from Ronald Reagan. He's one of a kind. But I think the challenge that I'll have in the debate is that the president tends to, how shall I say it, to say things that aren't true. And in attacking his opponents. I've looked at prior debates. And in that kind of case, it's difficult to say, "Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren't quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?" And that's the challenge you always-
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So President Obama lies, is that right Mr. Romney?
Coming from someone like you?
How about 533 Romney documented lies in 30 weeks? http://www.patheos.com/...
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Karl Rove learned from Lee Atwater that the best way to destroy you opponent is to take your opponent's strengths and turn it around into a weakness. The best example is the swiftboating of John Kerry in 2004.
However, Mitt Romney completely turns this strategy upside-down. He takes his own weaknesses and projects them upon his opponent.
Examples:
Romney weakness: I am a liar
Obama charge: Obama is a liar
Romney weakness: Change Medicare as we know it
Obama charge: Obama wants to change Medicare as we know it
Romney weakness: un-American hiding of income in foreign banks
Obama charge: Obama doesn't understand America. He is not a real American
Romney weakness: Cutting 716 billion from Medicare benefits
Obama charge: Obama will cut 716 Billion from Medicare Benefits.
Romney weakness: Mormon, Hard for some Christians to support
Obama charge: Obama does believe in the same God. He wants to
remove God from US currency.
Romney weakness: His campaign lodges brutal attack ads
Obama charge: Obama campaign is being mean to me
I am sure readers can come up with other examples.
**Extra Credit:
Romney occasionally applies another version of upside down Rovian politics.
Take your opponent's accomplishments and claim them as your own.
For example- His claiming that he and not Obama was responsible for the idea to save the auto industry during the great recession.
Next time you hear Romney speak, listen to this rampant displacement and be ready to
tear his arguments apart.
12:04 PM PT: I forgot about one of the most important pieces of projection I have found.
See my diary http://www.dailykos.com/...
The point here is Romney goes around claiming Obama goes around apologizing for America- Here is Romney in 2006 doing essentially just that:
… " ‘The question is, for China, how will you use that power? And it is our hope that that power will be used to encourage peace and stability in the world,’ Romney told a small group of mostly business school students. ‘And ... my experience with my own country is this: We make mistakes as a country; every country does. Mistakes in information, mistakes in judgment." Boston Globe- 2006
More context in my previous dairy above