Romney will lie in the debates, everyone knows it

[Enrique]

I am sure in his debate preparations he is working hard on crafting lies which he can get away with. He is watching videos of the moderators to assess what kind of lies they will abet, and studying videos of Obama to assess what kind of reaction he will get from him.

I'm sure Obama knows this and is preparing accordingly. What do you do when someone blatantly lies in a debate? If you know the lie ahead of time, you can prepare, but Mitt has lots of orifices from which to pull stuff, so it can get tricky.

And Mitt has already started preparing the public, by pre-emptively calling Obama a liar. He recently claimed without evidence that Obama has a history of lying in debates. And of course George Stephanopoulos, to whom Mitt said this, didn't bother asking him what he was talking about. So Mitt knows he's gong to lie in the debates, knows there's a good chance Obama will call him a liar, and so he called Obama the liar first.

[liberal N proud]

2. That is why on Sep 14 Romney made this statement...

Mitt Romney: Barack Obama may lie in debates

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10021341755


The one thing republicans are extremely good at is projecting their faults on their opponent.

[Avalux]

4. +1,000,000

I thought the exact same thing...that's a Rove tactic.

[DetlefK]

3. Do you really think, he and his staff are competent enough for such a deceit?

You know, actually caring about what people think... If Romney knew how to do that, he would fare much better in the polls.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. The word is that Romney just doesn't listen to his handlers.

I expect he will go into the debate armed with a FOX news version of reality and events and he will pay a price for living in the right wing reality bubble. This should be a good one. It's going to be like Mohammed Ali vs Pee Wee Herman.

[vinny9698]

6. Mitt is prepping for a debate with the fictional Obama,

Jon Stewart has it right, the right wing believe in a make believe Obama, can not think, unless he has a teleprompter, is a socialist, got his Harvard degree because of affirmative action not his intelligence and hard work and so on.

I have a coworker who firmly believes that Obama is clever but not smart. That he con his way by his cleverness into the presidency. Go figure.

The real Obama is going to surprise Mitt and the gop.

[HopeHoops]

7. The debate drinking game - one rule: Every time rMoney says "there you go again" take a drink.

[edhopper]

8. Obama need to memorize this phrase

and just repeat it over and over;

"Gov. Romney, that simply is not true and you full well know it."

[sendero]

9. I'd prefer...

... "there you go again" every time Romney lies, followed by the truth.