With the Republican Primaries heating up and the Super PACs running attack campaigns at full throttle, it’s no surprise that accusations of inaccuracies and even out right lies are being pronounced at campaign stops and even during the live, televised debates.
Last night, during the Fox news hosted Republican primary debates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich accused each other’s Super PACs of blatant lies in their attack ads. While campaign finance laws make it illegal for a candidate to have any influence over the Super PACs and where they spend their money, each candidate did agree that it should be known that BOTH of the attack campaigns by each of their supporting Super PACs are stating wholly inaccurate falsehoods (a.k.a. LIES) about the other candidates.
My question is, now that each side admits that these campaigns are stating out right lies about their Republican competitors, do you think that these candidates and their supporters would also exaggerate and even lie about their accusations across party lines? Do you think they also lie about Obama? Democratic party policies?
Or will we claim that the lying stops at party lines, and when it comes to the Democrats, the claims are 100% fact-checked truths? I’m simply saying, if they actually admit they’re lying about each other, don’t you think the lies are even worse when referring to the other side?
