Republican Lies category archive

Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.

Update: Link fixed.

Facing South rounds up some stats about the Republican Party’s efforts to gut out the vote. Here’s a few:

• According to an election night survey conducted for the AFL-CIO, percentage of Romney supporters who had to wait 30 minutes or more to vote: 9
• Percentage of Obama voters who had to wait that long: 16
• Percentage of white voters who had to wait 30 minutes or more to vote: 9
• Percentage of African Americans: 22
• Percentage of Hispanics: 24

Follow the link to hear more numbers speak for themselves.

The Richmonder has a personal encounter with the workings of Fox News.

Pay no attention to the electrons behind the curtain:

The Facebook page for Gaston Memorial Hospital, in Gastonia, N.C., offers a chicken salad recipe to encourage healthy eating, tips on avoiding injuries at Zumba class, and pictures of staff members dressed up at Halloween. Typical stuff for a hospital in a small town.

But in October, another Facebook page for the hospital popped up. This one posted denunciations of President Obama and what it derided as “Obamacare.” It swiftly gathered hundreds of followers, and the anti-Obama screeds picked up “likes.” Officials at the hospital, scrambling to get it taken down, turned to their real Facebook page for damage control. “We apologize for any confusion,” they posted on Oct. 8, “and appreciate the support of our followers.”

The fake page came down 11 days later, as mysteriously as it had come up. The hospital says it has no clue who was behind it.

More frolicking Facebookers at the link.

Turnout.

Via Americablog.

Hoist on their own petard. Delicious details at the link.

Two Republicans in separate states were taken into police custody during the past week for allegedly attempting to test how easy it would be to commit voter fraud.

They found out that it wasn’t so easy. Both of them may be charged with felonies.

Perhaps this will help them separate fact from reality in the future.

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Republican strategist Steve Schmidt: It’s a Republican myth.

Via Raw Story.

Jay Bookman tells the story of yet another American citizen denied the right to vote by Republican machinations.

The vitriolic lies that Republicans are injecting into my answering machine are quite aback-taking.

It is a flood of Sandian proportions.

Danial Ruth stands awed by Mitt the Flip’s “audacity of mendacity” and the only flop Mitt hasn’t flipped. A nugget:

It was not that long ago Mitt Romney pollster Neil Newhouse offered up a rare moment of candor.

After being confronted by reporters covering the Joe Isuzu campaign with numerous inaccurate, false and misleading statements being dished up by the candidate, Newhouse responded by declaring the Romney team was ”not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

At least on this point, the Romney campaign has been consistent.

Read the rest.

More evidence that Republican fears of voter fraud is a case of psychological projection:

Image via Mr. Feastingonroadkill.

Via Raw Story.

Not Larry Sabato has uncovered yet another occurrence of Republican voter fraud in Virginia. A snippet from the post; follow the link for more:

This is now a THIRD location where we are hearing about voters in this area being falsely registered. The forms that were collected from the dumpster on Monday that led to the recent indictment came from a local street festival and a registration at the local community college.

How is this not a subversive activity?

The Richmonder offers more information here, plus a larger perspective:

The Republican Party is desperate and morally bankrupt. They know that if everyone who had the right to voted voted in their own, rational self-interest, the Republican Party would be consigned to the trash heap of history. The Republican Party is going to do anything it can to prevent ordinary Americans from voting and having their voices heard.

Via Media Matters.

From Dick Polman’s article about this week’s debate:

Before we even assess the substance of Romney’s remarks, we first need to flag the lie. (All too often, with Romney, this is standard operating procedure.)

You can read the rest, but this sums up the Romney campaign.

And Romney’s character.

It is getting stranger.

Via The Richmonder.

Addendum, Later That Same Day:

An arrest has been made.

Colin Small, a 31-year-old resident of Phoenixville, Pa., worked for Pinpoint, a company hired to register voters on behalf of the Republican Party of Virginia. Prosecutors charged him with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of failing to disclose voter registration applications and one count of obstruction of justice.

The Virginia Republican Party is not returning phone calls.

And that surprises us how?

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When you believe in nothing, you can say anything.