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Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:29 PM Aug 2012

Facts are Stupid

Romney Campaign: We Will Not 'Be Dictated By Fact-Checkers'

AP - The Romney campaign said on Tuesday that its ads attacking President Obama's waiver policy on welfare have been its most effective to date. And while the spots have been roundly criticized as lacking any factual basis, the campaign said it didn't really care.

"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said at a panel organized by ABC News.

This is a different standard than the one Romney himself has held up for the election-season ad wars. Reacting to attacks by a pro-Obama super PAC, Romney recently told a radio station that "in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad."
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RC

(25,592 posts)
2. One really has to be pretty stupid to support these idiots.
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:42 PM
Aug 2012
"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said at a panel organized by ABC News.


And statement such as this are supposed to get them votes?

valerief

(53,235 posts)
3. Facts are for people with no faith. We Dems call that critical thinking skills,
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:43 PM
Aug 2012

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