All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. And then there is the Republican Party.

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All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.



Washington — I’m a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties. These days, I get two questions repeatedly: “Is it worse than it’s ever been?” and “What’s up with Donald Trump?”

I’ve been fact-checking since 2007, when The Tampa Bay Times founded PolitiFact as a new way to cover elections. We don’t check absolutely everything a candidate says, but focus on what catches our eye as significant, newsworthy or potentially influential. Our ratings are also not intended to be statistically representative but to show trends over time.

Donald J. Trump’s record on truth and accuracy is astonishingly poor. So far, we’ve fact-checked more than 70 Trump statements and rated fully three-quarters of them as Mostly False, False or “Pants on Fire” (we reserve this last designation for a claim that is not only inaccurate but also ridiculous). We haven’t checked the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson as often as Mr. Trump, but by the percentages Mr. Carson actually fares worse....................
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It's clear the Republican Party is following the Romney Rule: Don't bother with the facts if it hurts your campaign.
 
Covertibility said:


All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.



Washington — I’m a political fact-checker, which is usually an automatic conversation starter at parties. These days, I get two questions repeatedly: “Is it worse than it’s ever been?” and “What’s up with Donald Trump?”

I’ve been fact-checking since 2007, when The Tampa Bay Times founded PolitiFact as a new way to cover elections. We don’t check absolutely everything a candidate says, but focus on what catches our eye as significant, newsworthy or potentially influential. Our ratings are also not intended to be statistically representative but to show trends over time.

Donald J. Trump’s record on truth and accuracy is astonishingly poor. So far, we’ve fact-checked more than 70 Trump statements and rated fully three-quarters of them as Mostly False, False or “Pants on Fire” (we reserve this last designation for a claim that is not only inaccurate but also ridiculous). We haven’t checked the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson as often as Mr. Trump, but by the percentages Mr. Carson actually fares worse....................
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It's clear the Republican Party is following the Romney Rule: Don't bother with the facts if it hurts your campaign.
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I just fact checked your thread, so far it is 50% mostly true.
 
‘if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it.’”

Politifact initially gave Obama the "true" vote over his Obamacare statement. It took them 5 years to finally fess up and give it the Pants-on-fire rating.

Politifact, their bias has been noted by several sources.
 
I believe the chart is probably best read in reverse.

In my opinion the guy who struggles the most to make accurate statements is Carson, Cruz is next. What they say completely aggravates the establishment so to site like politifact... if it aggravates leftists its false. For that matter I don't remember santorum lying about anything. He just drove the left nuts with his conservative religious views and telling them that the 97% is based on a survey of 77 scientists. Which is true.
 
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