Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

"Our esteem around the world has fallen. I can't think of a major country, it's hard to think of a single country that has greater respect and admiration for America today than it did five years ago when Barack Obama became president. And that's a very sad, unfortunate state of affairs."

-- Mitt Romney, earlier this year, making an assertion that is contradicted by Pew Global Attitude Project polls in 2006 and 2014 regarding confidence in the U.S. president to do the right thing regarding world affairs: the only two countries where confidence in Bush was stronger than confidence in Obama were Russia and Pakistan.

I saw a breakdown of this lie and of some of the lies he told during his presidential run. Basically, he's very good at doubling-down on lies even when they've been rigorously disproved.

Sounds to me like he's considering running again in '16.

"I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love."
—Mitt Romney

And here I thought George W. Bush wasn't clear. Politics is truly the art of saying nothing and getting people to vote for it.

"[Obama] wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message?"
—Mitt Romney

This just boggles the mind. Our education sucks, unless you have the $$$ to send your kids to exclusive private schools for grades K-18. Fire departments are being consolidated, resulting in poorer service, police departments have been chronically underfunded for ages. These are fundamental public services that more than 99% of the country cannot afford to buy for themselves. But I guess that's not the RNC's problem.

I so fervently hope that they get a real nasty slap upside the head in November and get thoroughly refudiated across the country.

"President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine [of no more big government] in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and birpartisanship. It's enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons. Probably, it runs much deeper than that."
—Mitt Romney

Yeah, he has a personal beef with the Clintons, that's why he appointed the former First Lady to be Sec State. Interesting that he talks about Obama discarding the doctrine of no more big gov't and doesn't talk about Bush first trashing it and destroying the surplus that Clinton was building up.

In order to have bipartisanship, you must have the cooperation of BOTH parties, and clearly he has made some efforts to reach out to the proverbial other side of the aisle and they will have nothing to do with anything if they don't get tax cuts for the wealthy and spending cuts for any social programs. When an elected member of the RNC says that the best thing the democrats can do is come over to the republican way of thinking (or lack thereof), then there is very little hope for bipartisanship.

"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."
-- Mitt Romney, 2008

"Bailout of enterprises that are in trouble, that's not the way to go. I know President Bush started it with the auto industry. I thought it was a mistake."
-- Mitt Romey, 2009

"I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back."
-- Mitt Romney, 2012

I didn't like having to bail out the auto industry, but I supported it. There were far too many other industries dependent on it, and it would have been a catastrophe. I was quite surprised when Ford, who was also in trouble, went it alone and pulled it together. And I'm very happy that the Big Three are on solid footing again. I was not nearly as much in favor of bailing out Wall Street, their industry is largely based on gambling and they've rigged the game in such a way that they absolutely cannot lose.

And to the best of my knowledge, Mitt Romney was not involved in the construction of the Eiffel Tower. I think it was some guy named Smith or something.

"The real war on women has been the job losses as the result of the Obama economy."
—Mitt Romney

I read that when the economy started tanking in '08 that men lost more jobs than women. I would expect that this also represents that more men than women are employed, but I can't back that up. I read recently that employment numbers are showing that more men than women are getting the new jobs that are coming online, but I don't remember if that percentage reflects how the jobs were originally lost.

"What I can promise you is this -- when you get out of college, if I'm president you'll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job."
— Mitt Romney to a New Hampshire college student

The problem is fairly simple. The best way to grow an economy and add jobs is increased manufacturing, and we don't do that very much any more. We have a jobless recovery: employers found that they could do as much or more with fewer staff, and now they have little incentive to add positions if there's no direct promise of increased sales/profit.