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Related: About this forumFacts 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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Facts are Stupid (Original Post)
Jeff In Milwaukee
Aug 2012
OP
Facts are for people with no faith. We Dems call that critical thinking skills,
valerief
Aug 2012
#3
That pretty much explains the Texas Board of Education, doesn't it (nt)
Jeff In Milwaukee
Aug 2012
#5
Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. They're working out of the Rove Dictionary.
RC
(25,592 posts)2. One really has to be pretty stupid to support these idiots.
"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,
soon to be outlawed in many U.S. states.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)5. That pretty much explains the Texas Board of Education, doesn't it (nt)
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)4. Dictators won't be dictated to.
valerief
(53,235 posts)6. Ha! Or dictators don't take dictation. (For those of us old enough to know
what dictation is.)