Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: Obama’s ‘Republican’ Woman a Registered Democrat
25th August 2012
One of Barack Obama’s recent ads for his re-election campaign purports to feature Republican women who have turned away from the GOP to support Obama/Biden. But, as it turns out, one of the women in the ad is not so “Republican.”
Maria Ciano has been a registered Democrat for the last six years — several years longer than Obama has been president — according to her voting records.
August 26th, 2012 at 00:49
So what about the rest of them? Are they also registered Democrats?
August 27th, 2012 at 13:13
Your link goes to a 404 screen. But I did some digging.
Of the seven women who appear in the ad, two are ‘Dems’ ‘posing’ as Republicans. (Although it isn’t clear from what I’ve been able to find that the mother is actually registered as a Democrat, or is simply dismissed as a Democrat because she likes Rachal Maddow.)
That means that the other five are legitimately Republicans who are supporting Obama.
Someone was too lazy to thoroughly vett the mother/daughter team, but the other five are unchallenged.
The Republicans will focus all attention on the two because addressing the five would be just too embarassing.
When they come up with five Democrats who support Romney, let me know.
August 27th, 2012 at 13:48
Link fixed. No Republican is ‘legitimately’ supporting Obama. As I’ve said before, calling yourself a Republican doesn’t make you a Republican any more than calling your watch a Rolex makes it a Rolex.
August 27th, 2012 at 14:18
Somebody has been able to identify two of the women in the ad as Democrats. That is absolute proof that the ad is a lie.
Dennis, you claim that the other five are “legitimately Republicans who are supporting Obama”. I admit that I haven’t seen any evidence for that fact, other than the clearly false statement in the ad that claims that all seven are Republicans. Could you either supply your documentation for that fact, or admit that you have none?
August 28th, 2012 at 22:17
@ Jay:
I have no proof that they are.
You have no proof that they are not, despite what I am sure is an army of conservative hackers searching feverishly.
In this instance, the absence of evidence is in fact evidence of absence. If they had any Democrat affiliations, it would have come to light by now.
@ Tim: So you are the final arbitor of who gets to be a ‘real’ Republican? Who’d have guessed?
August 29th, 2012 at 08:55
Dennis, the Democrats who made the ad said all seven were Republicans. That claim is a clear, flat lie. You sound like the Jesuit who, being accused of murdering three men and a dog, triumphantly produced the dog alive.
Except, of course, that you have no evidence at all. You haven’t produced the dog alive. You just said that the authorities haven’t found the dog’s body yet, and are trying to use this absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
Oh, and Tim did not claim to be the final arbiter. He made the fully documented statement that calling yourself a Republican (as those two Democrats did) does not make you one. You might try to claim the he implied that there was an authority, but the statement that he identified himself as that authority is simply false.