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Krugman: Romney 'running a campaign of almost pathological dishonesty'
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/opinion/krugman-romneys-economic-closet.html... Given his advisers, then, it seems safe to assume that what Mr. Romney blurted out Tuesday reflected his real economic beliefs as opposed to the nonsense he pretends to believe, because its what the Republican base wants to hear.
And therein lies the reason Mr. Romney acts the way he does, why he is running a campaign of almost pathological dishonesty.
For he is. Every one of the Romney campaigns major themes, from the attacks on President Obama for going around the world apologizing for America (he didnt), to the insistence that Romneycare and Obamacare are very different (theyre virtually identical), to the claim that Mr. Obama has lost millions of jobs (which is only true if you count the first few months of his administration, before any of his policies had taken effect), is either an outright falsehood or deeply deceptive. Why the nonstop mendacity?
As I see it, it comes down to the cynicism underlying the whole enterprise. Once youve decided to hide your beliefs and say whatever you think will get you the nomination, to pretend to agree with people you privately believe are fools, why worry at all about truth?
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Krugman: Romney 'running a campaign of almost pathological dishonesty' (Original Post)
Newsjock
Feb 2012
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JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)1. K&R
Demeter
(85,373 posts)2. There's nothing "almost" about it.
AND---he's not the only one. I'll never be able to take my snow boots off this year.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)3. What a shame to see a once-tolerable repuke like Willard
turn into a lying, drooling psychopath. This country is headed for a really big catharsis - similar to 1861 - we need to be ready