New low for dishonesty in Romney ads

In the third debate, Romney accused Obama's policies of shipping jobs overseas to China.   His rationale for the false claim:  General Motors is expanding it's manufacturing in China.   But, as Obama corrected him in the debate:   The expansion is to increase the supply of cars to be sold in China.   It will not take away from the U. S. production and will not reduce jobs here at home.  It is merely an expansion of the company in China.

Despite that refutation, plus copious post-debate media discussion of the false claim, Romney has continued to use the line in his campaign speeches, adding that Chrysler is also shipping production of Jeeps overseas -- and of course blaming it on Obama's policies.   And now Romney has ads saying the same thing in Ohio -- one of the areas that produces cars -- and a must-win state if Romney is to win the presidency.

A spokesman for GM has refuted the charges about China, and the CEO of Chrysler has written a letter to the Detroit News insisting that there is no validity to Romney's claims.

Is there no bottom low enough for the Romney campaign to sink?   Is there no shame?  What of all this image-building of Romney as a man of honor and moral values, a la his Mormon faith?

How can you paint yourself as a devout man of religious faith -- and be so dishonest?

Surely, surely, the American voters will see through the veneer of rectitude in this shallow man, whose morality seems to be a mile wide, if you agree with him and live according to his design, but it's only about one inch deep when it comes to business or politics.

More and more proof that character shows up early and rarely changes.  This is the same character as the 17 year old prep school boy who led a pack of well-dressed hooligans to chase down, throw to the ground, and cut off the hair of a non-conforming, long-haired boy in their class.    That was a horrible act, and Romney doesn't seem to get it how bad it was.

He hasn't changed much from the self-righteous prig he was at 17.

He has no business in the White House -- that wasn't intended as a pun, but so be it.   Being president should NOT be approached as being the CEO of a business.    The bottom lines in the two are entirely different, yet Romney doesn't see the difference;  he touts his experience as a businessman.**   We do not need our president to be thinking only of the bottom line.   There are human lives at stake.

Ralph

**   As someone has pointed out, Romney was not a business man.  He never ran a business that made things or sold thing or provided a service to people.   He was a manipulator of financial markets -- that's what he was and what he made his hundreds of millions of dollars doing.