Chrysler CEO Pushes Back on Romney Lies - GM Joins Push Back

UPDATED:  Not only has Mitt Romney been lying about Chrysler, he's also been lying about events and job lay offs at General Motors.  Here are highlights from Politico as GM calls out Romney for his lies:

Via the Detroit Free Press, Mitt Romney's auto bailout Ohio radio ad is prompting some pushback from General Motors:

“We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days,” GM spokesman Greg Martin said. “No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.”

The ad's contention about the jobs lost under GM is what Martin pushed back on — the ad says the company cut 15,000 jobs "under President Obama" but is going to double China production. The majority of those job losses, the Free Press says, took place ahead of the restructuring through the bailout.

The spot implies the auto bailout, which is popular in parts of the Midwest, was a mistake. As the Atlantic's Molly Ball notes, the messaging from Romney has been blurry on this subject — he has called the bailout bad while also saying it was his initial idea to call for a bakruptcy process.

I have been active in politics for many years and I truly do not believe that I've ever seen any politician more willing to simply outright lie than Mitt Romney.  It's one thing to different on interpretations of data or policies.  It is something totally different to just flat out lie.  Yet that is precisely what Mitt Romney is doing in an ad that claims that Chrysler is planning to move jobs manufacturing Jeeps to China.  It's simply not true, but that means nothing to Romney and his morally bankrupt campaign.  Politico reports on Chrysler's push back against Romney's baldfaced lie.  Here are highlights:

The Toledo Blade reports on the latest turn of the screw in the auto-related debate that has overshadowed the final week of the race in Ohio:

Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne circulated an email to Chrysler Group LLC employees today strongly restating the automaker's promise that it will not move existing U.S. production of Jeeps to China.

In the email, Mr. Marchionne said he felt obligated to again address the company's production plans over continuing "public debate."

The note did not directly reference politics or the presidential election, but Chrysler's plans for Jeep have become a major political talking point over the past week, especially in Ohio. Speaking in Defiance last week, Republican candidate Mitt Romney seized on a misrepresentation of a Bloomberg story, suggesting that Chrysler was considering moving existing Jeep production to China.

Romney has stuck with the Jeep-related line of attack against Obama, though in a modified form that only implies — rather than stating explicitly — that Chrysler might move jobs from Ohio to China. It's a decision that has puzzled Republicans both in and outside Ohio: after letting Obama dominate the auto-bailout debate on the airwaves for months, Romney has re-engaged the auto fight at the last minute on less-than-firm footing, with an attack that now has Chrysler weighing in against him.

Frankly, it is to a point where if I were talking to Romney face to face and he said it was raining outside, I'd want to go look out the window and confirm it before I took the statement as true.  The man is a pathological liar.  We cannot afford putting such a totally dishonest man in the White House.