Don't know if it is actually what is going on with Romney (an alternative view would be it's his old Bain schtick: say whatever you need to to get inside the door, then once you're in loot the place).

Where I have seen this before is with Creationists.

He doesn't think it's Mormonism either. He thinks Romney is a sociopath, albeit a high functioning one. Thom points out correctly that the same cognitive dissonance can be found in every religion.

I confess that I posted this more in order to post something pointing out that Mitt Romney is in fact a liar, because Mitt Romney is in fact a liar.

“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” he's suggesting that Obama is lying about him, so it's justified for him to lie...the only thing about that is...Obama isn't lying, so his justification, however juvenile it is, is just wrong. I don't think it has anything to do with his faith or just seeing things differently skewing the real truth into what he sees as truth. I think HE KNOWS HE'S LYING AND SIMPLY DOESN'T CARE.


And the next time he uses that damn sauce for the gander bull crap, I wish one of the pundits would just ask when Obama lied therefore giving his statement some actual meaning.

One can't know for sure of course.

Does a sociopath know that they are lying?

He just doesn't see any reason not to lie.

Lying is a slippery slope. The sociopath has rationalized their lying. I think it's true that somewhere they know they lie, but as a sociopath with no empathy they have convinced their self that they are the only one that matters.

How can you tell a lie to one that does not matter?

The sociopath is a sick person.

For the life of me I couldn't understand what he (Romney) meant. His "sauce for the goose" made no sense until now (that you've explained it). I thought he was trying to use it to say he wasn't lying and it just didn't work for me no matter how hard I tried to spin it.

Thanks for enlightening me. It makes perfect sense now. Yeah, I know, I know. I'm slow.

... in a "folksy" metaphor for this very reason. A large number of people won't quite parse his meaning, and, should somebody call him out on it, he can insist that this was not what he meant, even though there is no other meaning.


He's a particularly slimy salesman, isn't he?

I didn't expect him to justify his lie. The worst I expected was for him to deny it.

I have never heard of "what's SAUCE for the goose is SAUCE for the gander". I have only heard "what's good for the goose is good for the gander".

It's an older version, but not all that old. I've heard that version in 1982.
http://www.hark.com/clips/mwzczyhqnx-sauce-for-the-goose

My brother married into Mormonism and spouts all the Mormon nonsense. I'm not sure if he actually believes the stuff, or is just lying to himself. I suppose that makes a difference.

another day another bigoted article. My family is LDS and the notion that they are comfortable lying because they rely on their faith when answers don't fit makes them lier is appalling and bigoted. All faiths do this.

I have heard that The Noble Lie is part of the LDS theology. Of course they did not invent that idea.

Personally I have a problem with any fundamentalist of any faith.

...who'll make shit up but not the faiths themselves.