The problem for Romney...

...is the dude can't speak a word of truth. You want to talk about flip flopping, here's your poster child. But the best part is he keeps lying even as he gets caught lying again and again.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/21/romney.details/index.html

"I'm not going to distance myself in any way from my faith," Romney told NBC's Tim Russert. "But you can see what I believed and what my family believed by looking at, at our lives. My dad marched with Martin Luther King. My mom was a tireless crusader for civil rights."

But Romney never did witness his father march with King, as the campaign now acknowledges.

Romney's presidential campaign says that the elder Romney marched with the civil rights leader, that he told his sons he had, and that written accounts from the time back up the claim.

But experts quoted in a Boston Globe investigation this week concluded that the event never happened.

"It's a figure of speech," Romney said this week of the claim he'd witnessed his father and King together, like saying "You know, I speak in the sense of 'I saw my dad become president of American Motors.' I wasn't actually there when he became president of American Motors, but I saw him in the figurative sense of he marched with Martin Luther King."

Guns have been a particular problem for him. Earlier this year, he told a New Hampshire voter: "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life," but he admitted later that he did not own a gun or possess a hunting license, and had been hunting only twice in his life.

During Romney's recent Meet the Press interview, he said that his gubernatorial bid had received a National Rifle Association endorsement -- but later conceded that the group's support had been limited to phone banking efforts, "which is not an official endorsement."

"That's what happens in the course of a campaign, when everything you say gets jumped on," Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said Friday. "Do you think every word that came out of your mouth this month was completely accurate? Can anyone's speech stand up to that kind of scrutiny?"

When campaign reporters pressed him on his King claims this week, Romney explained that he "saw" his father march with the civil rights leader "in the figurative sense," but did not literally see the two men walk side by side.

"The reference of seeing my father lead in civil rights, and seeing my father march with Martin Luther King, is in the sense of this figurative awareness of and recognition of his leadership," he said. "I've tried to be as accurate as I can be. If you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term 'saw' includes being aware of -- in the sense I've described."

"I'm an English literature major. When we say, 'I saw the Patriots win the World Series,' it doesn't necessarily mean you were there," he said.

A CNN poll conducted earlier this month found that a quarter of New Hampshire's Republicans found Romney the most believable candidate in the race -- enough to give him a tie for the top spot in that category.

Why yes, as a matter of fact, everything that has come out of my mouth in the salt month was completely accurate, and I take offense at Romneys campigns inference that it was not, that everybody lies and that when he said he "saw" something, he only meant it figuratively.

Not everybody lies, nor do they lie all the time, nor do they lie about stupid shit like saying they saw something and then saying it was only mean 'figuratively.' Yeah, I saw that man kill that other man, figuratively speaking that is.

I give Giuliani props in one respect and one respect only, in that he finaly gave up trying to fudge his record and just said look, assholes, here I am warts and all, take it or shove it. That in no way lessens his idiocy or incompetence or egregious and blatant misuse of authority, nor his humongous ego and arrogance, but at least he's not blatantly lying anymore.

By the way if anyone is interested, do yourself a favor and check Merriam-Websters's online dictionary and decide on your own.