I have seen the ad several times today … not verycreative or attention getting

The NitWitMitt camp can't come up with actual facts, so they resort to a complete smear campaign.

Mitt and the GNOP are so out of touch with the average American that they are clueless about what they should run on. Instead they simply stand there saying that things are great. They aren't great because the GNOP has refused to help the president and the American people for more than 3 years.

Shame on you Romney for your outright lies as you campaign for the highest job in our nation.

Steven Benen, The Maddow Blog

1.Following the Supreme Court's ruling on Arizona's anti-immigrant law, Romney said "we are still waiting" for President Obama "to present an immigration plan."

No, actually, we're not. Obama endorsed a comprehensive reform plan years ago, and presented his own detailed plan more than a year ago.

2. At a campaign event in Salem, Virginia, Romney said Obama had "all the support he needed" in Congress to pass immigration legislation during his first two years in office.

That's plainly false. There were Democratic majorities in both chambers, but not enough to overcome Republican filibusters.

3. At the same event, Romney said Obama "did not deal with immigration" policy.

Sure he did. Obama introduced a comprehensive immigration reform proposal; he increased deportations; he strengthened border security; and he used his prosecutorial discretion to implement the goals of the DREAM Act. Romney may not approve of these policies, but he should deny their existence.

4. Romney also argued that Obama "promised" to keep unemployment "below 8 percent" through the Recovery Act.

As Romney surely knows by now, that's simply not true.

5. Romney went on to accuse Obama of "raising taxes on small businesses."

In reality, Obama cut taxes on small business, many times, and Romney should probably understand that "cutting taxes" is the opposite of "raising taxes."

6. Romney said an "avalanche of new regulations" under Obama is standing in the way of "good jobs."

Actually, Obama approved fewer regulations in his first three years in office than Bush did in his first three years.

7. Romney also said Obama "says no to developing our oil resources."

Oil production is up under Obama.

8. Romney added, "Guess how many [trade] agreements this president has negotiated? Zero. No new agreements to open up markets for American goods."

Panama, Colombia, and South Korea know better.

9. Romney went on to say Obama "has put together almost as much public debt as all the prior president's combined."

That's a lie.

10. Romney vowed, "I will get us to on track to a balanced budget."

There's overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Romney says his plan "can't be scored," but independent budget analysts have found his agenda would make the deficit bigger, not smaller, and add trillions to the national debt.

11. Romney shared an odd anecdote: "I was with a woman in Las Vegas, she has a business. She rents furniture to casinos and to conventioneers that come to Las Vegas... When the president said not to bother coming to Las Vegas to go to a company meeting, her business collapsed."

Obama actually said, in reference to Wall Street recklessness, "You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime. There's got to be some accountability and some responsibility." To blame the failure of some random business in Nevada on this is ridiculous.

12. Romney added, "The president's put on us on path to Europe. Europe doesn't work in Europe. It'll never work here."

The irony is, Europe is trying to grow through austerity, just as Romney intends to do here. He's lying in a self-refuting sort of way.

13. At a campaign event in Sterling, Virginia, Romney said under the Affordable Care Act, "government bureaucrats get between us and our doctors."

In reality, this does not resemble the law in any way. (Perhaps Romney is thinking of Bob "Ultrasound" McDonnell?)

Mitt is a pathetic small, idiotic individual. Why is this the BEST the GOP has????

Team Romney is now airing an spot that concludes with these words Clinton uttered in '08: "Shame on you, Barack Obama."

so what? There are hundreds of videos that Obama can use against Romney; they include Bachmann, Pawlenty, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Cain, McCain...did I forget anyone?

Oh yeah, the guy who paid millions to Gingrich's SuperPAC to discredit Romney - Sheldon Adelson.

SeekingSanity

Mitt is a pathetic small, idiotic individual. Why is this the BEST the GOP has????

considering the Republican alternatives?? YEAH!

SeekingSanity, but it is so easy to keep up with his lies. We have some wonderful journalists out there who are not going to sit by quietly while he tries to get away with his lies.

He is part of the insanely rich corporate America, most of whom lie and steal for a living. That's the only world he knows. And his base evidently enjoys being lied to and handing their hard earned money over to liars like Romney. They are being exploited, yet haven't the sense to see it.

To take a page out of supporters of then candidate Obama who came up with a fantastic photo of Obama with his made up words -

Chill the **** out. I got this.

perhaps romney is 'mis-remembering' W's quote on ob-gyn's getting out of the business cuz they can't practice their love for women?

LOL, Clara.

ballie, Newt Gingrich.

Reminds me of Newt Gingrich's comment that the Ryan Budget was "right-wing social engineering", then claiming that anyone who quoted him was wrong because he didn't really say it....never mind the tape.

Romney the Vulture plays a childish game.

No offense to Hillary, but her tactics were a failure then, and...

..... Romney is failure-in-the-making.

All I can say is that I can't wait for Real Time with Bill Maher tonight. This should be memorable. Hopefully all of our right wing nut butties will tune in too! Speaking of, where is the Spankster? Not a peep from him since the SCOTUS ruling.

Clara KCMO -- Great opening post (you've done Feisty proud).

So attacking the president for the time when he attacked Hillary... Is this supposed to make Hillary supporters vote for Romney? Or make voters who are not rabid rightwingers believe his lies because he is defending Hillary?

Projection Politics won't work. Sorry Willard, you are the worst negative attack ad candidate I've seen to date, and the biggest liar and nothing will convince me otherwise.

tonybeeerm -- SpankMe is probably heavily medicated after the triple whammy loss on Arizona's immigration law, ACA including the mandate, and Fast and Furious. But isn't it nice not to scroll past his drivel?

SpankMe is probably heavily medicated after the triple whammy loss on Arizona's immigration law, ACA including the mandate, and Fast and Furious.

maybe he's en route to Costa Rica. On second thought, they'd send him right back.

Does Carl Rowe think the voting public is stupid? Maybe he does... But just the facts would be nice... I'm laughing as to why the republicans picked Romney to lead their party... Didn't he run on Romney-care in Massachusetts? and win... Isn't The Affordable Health-care that we now have modeled after Romney-care?

Romney has financially done great for two plus decades now... Getting richer and richer and at cost to whom? Thousands of people who lost their job, home, insurance etc... Jobs that were sent to china or their company sold and profits went to Romney and his buddies...

Remember, Romney makes $50,000.00 a-day and has for years now, for his work at Bain capitol... Sweet! And just how many jobs did he lose?

tonybeeerm

maybe he's en route to Costa Rica. On second thought, they'd send him right back.

Oh my, so many promises that won't be kept. If only Rush Limbaugh would move to Costa Rica as promised, and Bill O'Reilly would apologize for being an idiot as promised, and all the rightwingers who are threatening to move to Canada (where there really is Universal health care?), what a bunch of crazies they are.

The rightwing hyperbole is like a super nova. As if comparing Fast and Furious to Watergate wasn't bad enough, they say ACA is on par with 9-11! Really? Let's see what the Teapublican Talban is doing to terrorize Americans...

There is a notable difference between ignorance and stupidity, but both can lead to unwise acts, and in combination, there are few outcomes that do not produce disastrous results for the person and anyone connected with them.

In their quest to transform the country into a corporatist theocracy, Republicans are using the ignorance and stupidity of a significant segment of the population to incite violent reactions to every policy proposed by President Obama. Americans got a glimpse of the stupidity in the teabagger movement during the healthcare reform debate two years ago, and despite the availability of information about the myriad benefits of the health law, it appears that, coupled with racism, that particular group is still stupid and becoming a hazard to the security of the entire population.

There are Americans openly discussing armed insurrection to overthrow the government based on the notion that the worst form of tyranny this country has ever witnessed is the Affordable Care Act's constitutionality.

Though of course a legally passed law upheld by the High Court is NOT tyranny against the citizens of the United States, let's hope there isn't a lot of Teabagger hatred gone wild in the days ahead.

In my humble opinion, this NEW GOP will not be this powerless, this lame, dysfunctional and unhonorable for some time to come. Democrats on the street need to step their game up a notch or two precisely at THIS time in order to send a FINAL message of our contempt. NOW is the time. It should be rightously obvious to ANYone that ANY american can look a republican straight in the eye and call them what THEY have PROVEN DAILY to be. Phony and unhonorable.

Jody, Iowa

ballie, Newt Gingrich.

yeah, how did I forget the biggest Romney hater???

Nathan-1680585

I agree. President Obama is running on his record of keeping us safe, boosting the auto industry, withdrawing troops from Iraq, and getting healthcare reform passed, just to mention a few of his achievments in the last three years.

Romney doesn't want to run on his record of governing MA because they were 1st in debt and 47th in job creation during his four years. Romney doesn't want to run on his record at Bain where his focus was creating profit and not on creating jobs. THen there is the delicate issue of RomneyCare being the model for ObamaCare. That's why all Romney can do is throw stones at the President.

Nathan, well said. In my view, President Obama is one of the most honest and straight forward politicians today.

"We are told that Barack Obama believes too much in an America of high principle and bold endeavor, but when John Kennedy called of going to the moon, he didn't say it's too far to get there. We shouldn't even try." Ted Kennedy, 2008. I don't recall the republican legislator's name but earlier this year he said we could not compete with China, we should not try (re: wind energy) yet thanks to President Obama's tough tariff stand with China, WE are competing. If we listen to today's conservative naybobs, nothing challenging would ever be done by America again.

As another put it " Mitt looks like he got sucker punched " and you did !

Great analogy, PalmSprings. I've always maintained that this election was like the Rumble in the Jungle between Ali and Foreman with the President being Ali, of course. Laying on the ropes, absorbing the blows from the Republicans, waiting for them to punch themselves out. Well, I believe the eighth round has started and you know what happened then. Mitt's about to taste the canvas.

Mitt is desperate beyond words. His world was turned upside down yesterday at about 10:10 am, EDT. and his t!t is caught in a wringer that won't let go. He can't even flip flop his way out of this one without sounding like the total hypocrite that he is anyway.

Willard Desperate Romney ... the little wooden man with no gumption is going down!!! His lies can't help him, the right wing ding's money can't help him. The debates will show his true colors...he's a wanna be that can't be.

I like Pigotry's post yesterday about Romney. Called him Missfitt Romney. Has a ring of truth to it.