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One of the more outlandish moments of the 2012 campaign came when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went to the floor of the world’s greatest deliberative body and accused GOP nominee Mitt Romney of not paying any taxes at all for the past 10 years. Reid’s evidence? Someone had told him. (That “someone” is alleged to be Jon Huntsman, father of the former Utah governor. Huntsman denies involvement.)
Reid’s claim, which seemed outrageous on its face, was widely dismissed by fact-checkers. Wrote WaPo’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler in a piece giving Reid four Pinocchios for the claim […]
And yet, the clip above shows Reid, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, not only refusing to apologize for the claim but defending it — in a very weird way.
“Romney didn’t win, did he?” Reid said in response to Bash’s question of whether he regretted what he had said about Romney.
Think about that logic for a minute. What Reid is saying is that it’s entirely immaterial whether what he said about Romney and his taxes was true. All that mattered was that Romney didn’t win.
Yeah, we sure dodged a bullet by not electing that Mormon goody-two-shoes Romney who was so totally unqualified to be President.
Reid has no shame about his behavior because, like all Leftists, he believes there is no behavior nor action that should not be taken in service of his ideology.
It is what they do, it is what they are.
We spend out time trying to counter all the little fires … the lies about Indiana’s RFRA, the lies about “rape culture”, the war on boys, the zero tolerance of the anti-gun hysterics … but the foundation of it all is Leftism, which moves on unmolested towards fundamental transformation of America.
“. . . like all Leftists . . . ”
So, since this is Chris Cillizza writing — and he’s a leftist — then what the hell sort of scam is going on with his calling out Reid?
They eat their own, eventually.
Now that he’s not running for reelection — meaning he’s no longer useful to the party — there might be scores to settle.
It also might be that Cillizza is a lower-case leftist. Hewitt thinks highly of him, but Hewitt is frequently delusional. YMMV.
Reid was always a liability, but as long as he was useful his downside was easy enough to overlook.
Now the Left gets no benefit from his remaining in office, so they wash their hands of him in hopes they can avoid being stained indelibly by his corruption.
Out, damn spot!
The left will suddenly remember that Reid is a Mormon.
Reid is a MINO: Mormon In Name Only. From what I know of them, Mormons take the 10 Commandments seriously, including the whole false witness thing.
I bet Harry has a few graven images that he worships as well.
The alleged “exercise accident” that happened to Mr. Reid may have been the start of that settlement.
Dead solid perfect, Darleen. Damn well said.
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