Republican Liars

[gottaB]

Poll question: Republican Liars

Which kind of Republican liar is most reprehensible?

[AllyCat]

1. Payment indicates they felt they had a choice

Easily the more reprehensible of the two choices.

[gottaB]

2. interesting angle

I entertained a distinction between cumpulsive liars and Republican partisan hacks, but found that it was meaningless. Not all compulsive liars choose to become Republican mouthpieces.

[baldguy]

3. Republicans who lie because they enjoy it.

But, they'll take money too.

[bobweaver]

4. Many don't even realize they are lying - were programmed not to know.

[Undercover Owl]

7. yeah that's bad, but..

..if they are such habitual liars that they don't even realize it, that's more like a mental illness, and we can feel a little sorry for them.

[happyjack27]

5. If they're getting paid, they have some sort of practical cause,

however banal and insipid.
If not, they have no justification, selfish or otherwise. Thus, more reprehensible.
To lie for a bad reason is better than for no reason at all.

[gottaB]

9. That was kind of my thinking

and there are more elaborate forms, like the hack who lies for partisan advantage because he tells himself that the Republican Party stands for many things, and some of them are decent, and perhaps worth lying for, but in his heart there's an intimation that it may all be in reality nothing but lies, and so the more he comprises himself and his ideals and the Republican Party he speaks for, the more true it becomes that he's lying for no other reason than to lie.

AlleyCat though had a good point. The payola forces a conscious decision to lie in a way that that partisan sentiments do not. Or don't necessarily. I imagine that even like the 11th paycheck obtrudes into consciousness in a way that's different from the 11th calculation of how to avoid speaking the truth in the best interests of the RNC.

[paulie5]

6. All of the above

Nuff said.


P5

[Mz Pip]

8. Republicans lie

because they can and it works. Telling the truth would not be an effective move for them so thye lie. They lie well and it pays off because the twits of America believe them.

Mz Pip
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