Politico: Mitt Romney to 'fact check' Obama in debate

[SunsetDreams]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81741.html



Seriously?

No...wait...




[font=red][font size=12]Really?[/font]





Pants On Fire Mitt Romney tells 616 Lies in 33 Weeks

Romocchio is gonna fact check someone!




This from the campaign who is not going to be dictated by fact checkers.

This from the campaign who can't even get his lies straight when giving speeches and his campaign has to then release statement after statement correcting what Romocchio said.

Okay!

[PatSeg]

1. Thanks for the first big laugh of the day!

What a fantasy world he lives in!!!

[Avalux]

2. Wait! That's different from what Romney said a couple of weeks ago (DUH)

Romney said Obama will lie during the debate and he won't try to call him on it....he'll just present his plan.

[SunsetDreams]

13. Here is the leaked plan

[CoffeeCat]

40. That's the right-wing meme right now...

That Obama will lie his way through the debate.

I think this is an attempt, by the Romney campaign, to soften up Obama before the debate and to let his guard down. I think Romney is playing the victim and presenting Obama as the junk-yard dog while making everyone (including Obama) believe that Romney is just a good guy who is going to present his ideas.

BULLSHIT!

Romney is soooooooo going for the jugular. He's going to lie his ass off and be so nasty and devious. The format of this debate does not allow opponents to challenge their fellow debater's points. Romney is planning on standing up there and throwing bomb after bomb after bomb after bomb.

There are lots of smart people on the Obama team. I am sure they are anticipating this. They had better!

This is Romney's last hope. If the election isn't over now--it certainly will be for Romney, unless he has some unprecedented, miraculous debate performance. Romney knows this. It's balls to the wall---or it means nothing.

So yeah. Romney can scream, "He's a meanie! He's gonna lie! Make him be nice" all he wants, as he pretends to be weak and victimized. He's bringing his velociraptor game and that's a fact. It's going to be really ugly.

[ProSense]

3. Wait,

didn't Mittwit declare he has no use for fact checkers? Yeah, rules are for other people. Idiot.

[SunsetDreams]

5. Here is Romney at the debate

Romney: "Oh by the way, what I said right there, whatever it was, it's true! I brought my own portable fact checker...see?

[alsame]

4. This is going to be an epic fail for Willard. If they

are planning to use gimmicks to get through a debate, they are worried.

[highplainsdem]

6. Romney can't win the debate, so they're trying to create a false narrative in advance -- one that

their deluded base, at least, will fall for.

[unblock]

7. this just means at some point, he's going to say "there you go again".

[SunsetDreams]

8. He's such a gaffe machine, he will mess up with that

and say "There I go again"

[BumRushDaShow]

11. !!!

[tavalon]

51. I was thinking the exact same thing!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. But I guarantee the likes of Creepy Crawly will let him

go all Gingrich during the debates. He will lecture the President and insult the media, all to garner whoops from the audience and cheering from his crazy base. That's all they have left.

[Maeve]

10. Leave it to the professionals, Mitty--see what happened when the NFL didn't? eom

[Andy823]

12. Preparing himself when he loses he debates

He will just come out and say the president is lying, we "fact checked" him, and as long as his brain dead base never bothers to actually check out his claims, no problem!

The only people that will buy into this BS are already going to vote for him anyway, not because they like him, not because he actually has any good plans, not because he has been so "honest" in the past, no the only reason they are going to vote for him is that they simply "HATE" the president because the listen to the right wing hate machine!

[Voice for Peace]

20. the debates may be effective at convincing some Romney voters to stay home

I can't imagine him coming across well debating Obama.

[Mopar151]

14. It looks to me like they are trying to intimidate Team Obama beforehand

Like that'll work..... Looks like RobMe's boys are beleiving their own bullshit, and think that, somehow, "controlling the message" will trump facts.

[Voice for Peace]

19. I think Obama's team is a little worried

[Mopar151]

27. I used to hang with a pretty rough bunch

And when some fool was promising to whoop ass, spank them like babies, eat their dogs and orphan their children, they had a pretty simple reply: "Pack a lunch, motherfucker. We're here all day."

Rove and the boys think this represents an opprutunity.

[mick063]

15. Things Romney will say during the debates:

President Obama has eliminated work requirements for welfare.

President Obama has raised taxes on the middle class.

President Obama has reduced funding for Medicare.

President Obama has apologized to the Muslim brotherhood.

President Obama's trade policy is passive toward China.

These are "talking points" that Mitt has repeatedly stumped on the campaign trail. They are etched deeply into the recall portion of his brain. He will say them.

If I know this, then President Obama knows this.

I'm eager to hear our President's replies. Bring on the fact checkers.....our President's greatest ally.

[marlakay]

16. That is what they always do attack us for what they do

It can work if they get ahead of it but so much has come out about their lies its too late this time….

and Obama is on top of it…he will know what is up and turn it on him...

[porphyrian]

17. Ha! n/t

[Voice for Peace]

18. Will he have private fact checkers there on hand?

[pinboy3niner]

21. Two--Joe Isuzu and Jon "That's the ticket" Lovitz :)

[B Calm]

22. Of course, you don't expect him to trust

real independent fact checkers do you?

[OldDem2012]

24. Probably the same guys who keep saying the polls are even.

[Warren Stupidity]

30. ear piece.

[OldDem2012]

23. This from the "Pantalones en Fuego" crowd! - nt

[Ztolkins]

25. If true, how does Obama counter this effectively?

Are they just going to stand there going back and forth "no, you lie more"?

Yay. Can't wait.

[gkhouston]

41. First, it will help the President to know this ASAP, so he can get the giggles out of his system.

Second, our side would have fact-checkers with statistics (and video, if possible) ready to respond with. I think it's a mistake for Romney to have opened this door for us, because Obama's not the one playing fast and loose with the truth... and with what he said last week.

[TeamPooka]

26. Calling this President a liar is not a strategic plan to get elected.

[liberal N proud]

28. What is he going to do attack everything Obama says?

That should come off well.

[HughBeaumont]

54. Well, when you have absolutely nothing else at all to run on or with . . . .

STRATEGERY!!

[formercia]

29. Hey!. Mitt is "entitled to his own facts."

[SunsetDreams]

43. Facts?

We don't need no stinking facts!

[Cha]

48. Thanks for the graphic exposing WilLIAR, SunsetDreams n/t

[cr8tvlde]

31. He going to get a magic marker beforehand and wear short sleeves ... crib notes

from the playbook of Sarah Palin. To coin a Republican's famous double "face palm", Sweet Jesus. Don't think he can get away with a wire under his jacket...like the "other" famous Republican candidate.

[fun n serious]

32. LMAO!!!

Thank you. I needed a good laugh today.

[vlyons]

33. Reality rolls off Mitt

like water off a duck's back. I've heard coyotes baying at the moon that made more sense than Mitt Romney. Well just remember folks that in a few short weeks, Mitt Romney will be relegated to the dust bin of history, where those who are the butt of jokes dwell. Well soon be responding to those who tweet and diary about Mitt with a big resounding, "Who gives a shit what Mitt Romney says?"

[Hutzpa]

34. I just hope he does not flip flop on this.

C'mon Mitt you can do it!!

"wait.. wait.. Rhummney.. Ryan.. Rhummney.. Ryan... Rhummney.. Ryan.."

[Happyhippychick]

35. He knows he can't win by telling people why he should be president so he'll rely on saying why the

other guy shouldn't be president.

Uh, good strategy.

[SheilaT]

36. Yes! Bring it on!

Every single time Romney starts spouting his version of reality, Obama will come back, calmly, with all of the correct facts and figures on whatever the topic is.

Be sure to pop plenty of popcorn.

[AnnieK401]

37. HA, can't wait - 6 more days.

Should be great.

[Hubert Flottz]

38. I thought FOX always did that...

I think I trust Mitt more than I would more FOX. And I don't trust Mitt in a shithouse with a muzzle on.

[Denise21]

39. fact check

you need to fact check the president omg YOU NEED TO FACT CHECK YOURSELF!!!! YOU ARE THE LAIR! YOU LIED ABOUT EVERYYYYYYYYTHING! YOUR MOUTH SHOULD BE BLEEDING FROM THE LIES YOU SAID ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT!!!!!! I HOPE YOU DON'T FACET CHECK YOURSELF.

[tjwash]

47. LOL

[arthritisR_US]

42. Oh the irony! n/t

[Cha]

44. THIS is mitt's ...I not exactly sure what the right word

is.. maybe psych ops. I've been posting that mitt is setting up this debate as President Obama is the liar and mitt is just an innocent asshole.

Towards the end of the interview, however, Romney looked ahead to the upcoming debates and said he'll have a challenge to deal with: "he president tends to, how shall I say it, to say things that aren't true."

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/14/13865583-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-volxxxiv?lite

I think Pres Obama is getting this message too.

[Raine]

45. Bwahahahaha this from someone who lies everytime he opens his mouth! nt

[Cha]

46. Also, Willard is on record as having

stated their campaign won't be bothered with Fact Check.

Mitt is a psycho..Good Luck To President Obama debating a Psycho.

[Cass]

49. Lol. If Romney's fact-checkers tell me its raining I'll open the window to see for myself.

His new-found interest in facts leaves me cold.

[tavalon]

50. Yes, RMoney, you should use that worn out line from Reagan

Yes, you should, you really, really should. After all, that's a better strategy than explaining your own point of view. Yep, harass Obama, please, please, please.

[mstinamotorcity2]

52. Who's gonna fact check him????

Probably the same person who told him he could win the Presidency with a " I tell you my Plan after I get in office" Strategy.

[Xipe Totec]

53. Fact chance! nt