‘The best part is, it’s really easy to lie’

The title here comes from The Onion. It’s satire, but it captures the past week of political news better than cable news:

“Romney Proudly Explains How He’s Turned His Campaign Around”

For weeks many Beltway insiders had written off the Romney campaign as dead, saying the candidate had dug himself into too deep a hole with too little time to recover. However, with a month to go before ballots are cast, Romney has pulled even with President Obama, and the former Massachusetts governor credits his rejuvenated campaign to one, singular tactic: lying a lot.

“I’m lying a lot more, and my lies are far more egregious than they’ve ever been,” a smiling Romney told reporters while sitting in the back of his campaign bus, adding that when faced with a choice to either lie or tell the truth, he will more than likely lie. “It’s a strategy that works because when I lie, I’m essentially telling people what they want to hear, and people really like hearing things they want to hear. Even if they sort of know that nothing I’m saying is true.”

“It’s a freeing strategy, really, because I don’t have to worry about facts or being accurate or having any concrete positions of any kind,” Romney added.

Romney said he is telling at least 80 percent more lies now than he was two months ago. Buoyed by his strong debate performance, which by his own admission included 40 or 50 instances of lying in one 90-minute period, the candidate said he will continue to “just openly lie [his] ass off” until the Nov. 6 election.

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“Obama will move America to force doctors to assist homosexuals in buying surrogate babies.”

“It’s not bad enough that it was raining and cold. Now there were Nazis too.” (via)

“If they can see President Obama as a lazy, stealing, unaccomplished, incompetent black man, how do those same white folks see me, a bus driver, teacher, barber, doctor, attorney, home healthcare worker, or parent?”

“This is the whole deal. Romney lied through his teeth about his tax policy, which would give huge cuts to high income earners and big increases for most middle class families.”

“Call it Etch-A-Sketch, call it the Gish Gallop, call it lies — it’s all about the same.”

“Romney spoke for 38 minutes of the 90-minute debate and told at least 27 myths.”

“I’m hoping a President Romney will see the House GOP as labor. Then they’re really f—ed.”

“Approximately one in ten Americans wrongly believe PBS and its parent, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, gets about a third or even half of the entire federal budget annually.”

“Romney, reading a prepared text from a teleprompter … said President Obama ‘has not signed one new free trade agreement,’ despite the fact that’s blatantly, demonstrably untrue.”

“When it comes to lies and half-truths, Romney saves his best stuff for foreign policy.”

“Mitt Romney agrees with you.”

“Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XXXVII”

“A History of Dishonest Fox Charts”