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http://www.boomantribune.comMitt Romney is Not the Tonic for Trumpism
by BooMan
Mon Jan 15th, 2018 at 04:23:16 PM EST
In 2012, former Political Animal blogger Steve Benen wrote a forty-one part series on the lies of Mitt Romney. Each week during the campaign, he chronicled all the things Romney had said that were untrue and provided a link to each item so the reader could verify that Romney was being dishonest. When he posted his last piece in the series, the list of whoppers had reached an astonishing but still only partial number of nine hundred and seventeen. I think its safe to say that the country had never before seen a politician who lied so easily and so routinely as Mitt Romney. He couldnt be relied on to tell you whether or not the sun was shining.
Amazingly, Trump is actually worse. By August of last year, the Washington Posts FactChecker listed over one thousand lies the president had told since taking office in late January. At the end of the year, Time magazine found 1,950 lies Trump told in 2017. The Toronto Star found 978 lies by Christmas, including twenty-seven examples of the president falsely calling America the worlds highest-taxed nation.
As bad as Trump is, its not certain that a President Romney wouldnt be worse. Either way, the two of them are the two most dishonest politicians in America, both demonstrating a pathological disregard for the truth. And I intend to keep bringing this up because I simply dont care that Romney is in the habit of blasting Trump from time to time. I dont care that Romney is moderate compared to Trump on some issues, including immigration. Romney is in no way the tonic for Trumpism.
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People should not ask if a Senator Romney would be a friend or foe of President Trump. They should peruse the record and realize that both of them are enemies of the truth.
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From BooMan Tribune (re: Romney's lies): (Original Post)
tblue37
Jan 2018
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Cha
(297,304 posts)1. romney is another big fat lying, trump sycophant
in the wings.
Thank you for this, tblue
tblue37
(65,403 posts)2. The trouble with how awful Trump is--he makes other truly awful people seem
slightly less intolerable than they really are. Heck, even W is benefiting from this effect!
Cha
(297,304 posts)3. So true.. but they're horrible
in their own particular brand of destruction.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)4. Romney is much better than Trump.
Even W is.
tblue37
(65,403 posts)5. One scoop of poison (Romney; W) or two (Trump). Dead either way. nt