{"id":5283,"date":"2011-07-02T03:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2011-07-02T03:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T10:21:22","slug":"romney-leading-and-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/romney-leading-and-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney: Leading and Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A the race for a Republican to be the next presidential candidate begins to take shape, Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, and dog abuser, has taken a lead in the polls and a substantial lead in fundraising.&#160; Despite problems with the more rabid elements of the Republican Party (the base), Republicans have a history of nominating the <em>next in line<\/em>, so we need to take him seriously.&#160; Fortunately, Romney shares one commonality with the rest of the Republican field.&#160; He is a liar.&#160; He is not fit to be President. Seamus knows!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"RomneyDog\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RomneyDog\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RomneyDog.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/>Republican presidential candidates are giving out the first hints of their second-quarter fundraising, with total tallies lower than they were in the presidential contest four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign said Friday that he raised less than $20 million. <\/p>\n<p>Former Minnesota governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/tim-pawlenty\/2011\/06\/10\/AG3KXWPH_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Pawlenty\u2019s<\/a> campaign said he raised $4.2 million in the recent quarter. Texas Rep. Ron Paul raised more than $4.5 million. Jon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/jon-huntsman\/2011\/06\/10\/AGF9UWPH_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huntsman,<\/a> a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/jon-huntsman-raises-4-million-in-the-second-quarter\/2011\/06\/30\/AGuOUlsH_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">raised $4.1 million<\/a> with \u201cless than half\u201d coming from his personal funds, an official with his campaign said\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/gop-candidates-tally-up-second-quarter-fundraising\/2011\/07\/01\/AGzWHJuH_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow Exposed Romney as the Republican liar he is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc93e47c\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=43615220^0^90450&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc93e47c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=43615220^0^90450&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How about that!&#160; First he lied, then he lied about lying!&#160; That makes him a true Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A the race for a Republican to be the next presidential candidate begins to take shape, Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, and dog abuser, has taken a lead in the polls and a substantial lead in fundraising.&#160; Despite problems with the more rabid elements of the Republican Party (the base), Republicans have a history <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/romney-leading-and-lying\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}