Today's example: The Romney campaign is running an ad about welfare that uses absolutely no facts -- just lies. Nothing but lies. The campaign says it's their most effective ad yet, and no, they're not at all concerned the ad has no basis whatever in fact.
A Romney pollster was quoted as saying, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." That level of outlandish, outrageous behavior is simply stunning -- lying, then bragging about it, and then being proud of it, too.
This is not at all like those iffy gray areas that dog campaign promises, the ones everyone knows will likely remain unfilled. This is a candidate's campaign holding out its resume for evaluation, asking the American people to be trusted with a crucial national and world-class role -- then lying on the application for employment, and bragging and laughing about it.
Willard's campaign might as well have announced in an ad, "We have no intention of the truth limiting our message. We plan on winning, no matter how many lies we have to tell you. We have no intention of telling you the truth now, and you can kiss the truth goodbye, forever. Then, once we're in office, you can kiss our big butts, too."
If you think this demonstrates mammothly-sized brassed balls and gargantuan hubris on the scale of small moons, you would do well to remember this is only a small taste of what's in store for you with these folks. Nice and direct: You have been warned.
Other times, my written warnings appear here, coated in humor, to help your swallowing continue past the mountain of razor blades and mouthfuls of broken glass. The default formula in these pieces is compact, owing to limited space. But, it follows a set trend:
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