Romney Rolls Out New Ad Doubling Down on Pants on Fire Lie About Navy

In Mitt Romney’s new ad, “Highest Responsibility,” he doubles down on the way out of date comments he made in Monday night’s debate that opened the door for Obama’s now trending “we also have fewer horses and bayonets” retort.

Despite the fact that Politifact gave Romney’s claim a pants on fire rating way back in January and Factcheck said it’s not true (in fact, we have more ships now than we did in Bush’s last four years), Romney’s ad claims “Despite what President Obama says, our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917. It’s the highest responsibility of the President of the United States to maintain the safety of the American people. Mitt Romney will not make our future less certain by cutting our military.”

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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said, “(t)he ships we have today are far more capable than any ships we’ve ever had, and comparing them to the old fleet in terms of numbers is sort of like comparing iPhones to the telegraph.”

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The Romney campaign will not be dictated to by fact checkers. So onward they fight the battles of yesteryear, pants on fire, bayonets in hand.

Take it from Mitt Romney, a foreign policy novice with no experience in counterterrorism or combat, if you want to be safe against Iran’s nuclear capabilities, base your counterterrorism and defense strategies on the way things were 60-100 years ago.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/mitt-romney-doubles-pants-fire-navy-claims-ad.html