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Everybody knows Mitt Romney is lying about Jeep moving to China. So what does he do? Tell it louder.



Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 09:13 AM PDT
by Jed Lewison

Everybody knows Mitt Romney is lying [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/29/1152000/-Romney-campaign-defends-ad-peddling-his-Jeep-to-China-lie ] about his false claim that Jeep is shipping American jobs to China. Even the traditional media calls it a lie: The Washington Post gives it four Pinocchios and PolitiFact says it's a Pants-on-Fire whopper.

So what does Mitt Romney do?

A Dem source familiar with ad buy info tells me that the Romney campaign has now put a version of the spot on the radio in Toledo, Ohio — the site of a Jeep plant. The buy is roughly $100,000, the source says.

The move seems to confirm that the Romney campaign is making the Jeep-to-China falsehood central to its final push to turn things around in the state.

So this must be what Mitt Romney and his campaign are thinking: "Sure, we're not telling the truth, but to win this election we need to win Ohio, and if we can get enough people to believe that we're being honest, we might have a shot." The Obama campaign is aggressively pushing back against Romney's lie [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/29/1152181/-Obama-ad-says-Romney-is-deceiving-Ohio-voters-about-auto-bailout-Wrong-then-dishonest-now ] and so is Ohio media. The question now is whether Ohio voters will reward Romney for placing his bet on the power of deception.

10:46 AM PT: Here's the script for the ad. It's an outrageous deception.

Originally posted to The Jed Report on Tue Oct 30, 2012 at 09:13 AM PDT.
Also republished by Daily Kos.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/30/1152520/-Everybody-knows-Mitt-Romney-is-lying-about-Jeep-moving-to-China-So-what-does-he-do-Tell-it-louder