{"id":19181,"date":"2015-04-01T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19181"},"modified":"2015-04-01T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:05:11","slug":"harry-reids-big-fib-on-mitt-romney-taxes-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/04\/harry-reids-big-fib-on-mitt-romney-taxes-why-it-matters.html","title":{"rendered":"“Harry Reid’s big fib on Mitt Romney taxes: Why it matters”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Perhaps you haven\u2019t noticed, but I\u2019m a pretty vocal political conservative, tending strongly libertarian on economic matters. \u00a0I have, nonetheless, felt obliged to come out in defense of Senator Harry Reid, a liberal Democrat, on a few\u00a0occasions, notwithstanding my deep and varied policy differences with him and my distaste for some of his tactics. \u00a0(See, for example, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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But his casual slander \u2014 on the floor of the United States Senate, no less! \u2014 against Governor Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign was disgraceful, and his complacent self-satisfaction about it even now is contemptible. \u00a0And I\u2019m not the only observer who sees it that way:<\/p>\n

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And, of course, the fact that Senator Reid was publicly maligning a fellow Latter-day Saint makes his behavior, if possible, even more deplorable. \u00a0I hope that he\u2019ll use his impending retirement as an occasion for repentance, and for remembering that\u00a0\u201cThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor\u201d is one of the Ten Commandments. \u00a0And there\u2019s no exception made in the Bible for the usefulness of slander as a political tactic.<\/p>\n

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