Mitt Romney is a Liar

Michael Cohen in the Guardian:

Quite simply, the United States has never been witness to a presidential candidate, who lies as frequently, as flagrantly and as brazenly as Mitt Romney.

Cohen documents this at some length in the column. One example:

My personal favorite in Romney's cavalcade of untruths is his repeated assertion that President Obama has apologized for America. In his book, appropriately titled "No Apologies", Romney argues the following:

"Never before in American history has its president gone before so many foreign audiences to apologize for so many American misdeeds, both real and imagined. It is his way of signaling to foreign countries and foreign leaders that their dislike for America is something he understands and that is, at least in part, understandable."

Nothing about this sentence is true.

President Obama never went around the world and apologized for America – and yet, even after multiple news organizations have pointed out this is a "pants on fire" lie, Romney keeps making it. Indeed, the "Obama apology tour", along with the president bowing down to the King of Saudi Arabia, are practically the lodestars of the GOP's criticism of Obama's foreign policy performance (the Saudi thing isn't true either).

It remains to be seen whether Romney will pay any price for this. If he wins despite his weak relationship with the truth, watch for lying to become the dominant campaigning style in America.