Good question...

...from Digby...

Republicans admit to being liars in order to get elected all the time. Why doesn't anyone believe them?

Chart of the day.

(It clicks bigger.)

Hat tip to Blue Texan.

Mitt's still lying...

...and Steve's still counting. 21 new whoppers in the 24th edition of Mitt's Mendacity.

In a record setting week...

...Steve Benen chronicles 30 - count 'em, 30 - new examples of Mitt's Mendacity.

From the "Me too" file.

Hunter...

I don't know what I want in a president. Frankly, I never have high hopes in that department. But the one thing I do know is that I'd rather not have a flagrant, egregious liar in that position...

Me too.

Good question.

Steve Benen ponders Mitt's Mendacity (19 new lies this week) and wonders...

I continue to think about something Fox News' Brit Hume said a few months ago. Reflecting on Romney's flip-flops, said, "You're only allowed a certain number of flips before people begin to doubt your character."

I'm curious -- is Romney also allowed a certain number of falsehoods before people begin to doubt his character? And if so, what is that number? 

 Some number smaller than the one that's been documented, in a just world...

Ten more lies...

...this week.

Only ten?  Benen doesn't miss much, so Mitt's apparently not even trying. Surely he can come up with at least two or three whoppers a day.

C'mon, Mittens, get in the game!

From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Rob McKenna is a deeply partisan Republican and a liar.

21 lies...

...this week.  Steve Benen chronicles Mitt's Mendacity. Fourteen posts so far.  I figure it'll be book length before November.

Yeah, he went there.

Romney Communications Director, Eric Fehrnstrom...

...I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.

...and the fun's already started...

The truth, and nothing but the truth….

…so help Charles Pierce…

...there is nothing important about Willard Romney as a candidate that has changed at all. He is still an unprincipled opportunist, incapable of telling the truth about his own record, and utterly without conscience when it comes to lying about someone else.

Hoocoodanode.

Newt's a liar.

Good question…

…from Tom Harper...

If Captain Francesco Schettino took Newt Gingrich's place on the campaign trail — could anyone tell the difference?

Good question...

...of the purely rhetorical variety, from Paul Krugman...

"I mean, is there anything at all in Romney's stump speech that's true?"

I'm pretty sure that what he actually means is "There is nothing at all in Romney's stump speech that's true," which, of course, is true.

It's true, really, of any Republican stump speech these days, which is another reason that...

Fun fact...

...from John Aravosis...

In French, the words "myth" and "Mitt" are pronounced the same.

From the "Since you asked…" file.

George Packer wonders…

How many times and ways can you say that the Republican Party has descended into unreality and extremism before you lose your viewers and readers?

Since you asked, at least one more, I'm sure.

Hat tip to Steve Benen.

Shorter Rick Santorum...

I didn't say what I said, I said what I say I said.

Longer here.

From the "Not exactly news" file.

Another Republican told another lie again.

It's what they do. It's all they've got. It's a major reason that...

From the "Since you asked…" file.

Heather Taylor-Miesle inquires...

Can We Give “Job-Killing Regulations” a Rest?

Since you asked, Heather, sure. We can.

They, sadly, won't even try, not despite, but because it's a lie and lies are all they have left.

From the "You know who 'they' are..." file.

They say that figures don't lie, but liars figure. I figure that Mitt Romney's a liar.

You already knew that? Figures...