Romney's "Binders Full of Women" Lie

From The National Memo:

And here’s the worst part. It’s not even a true story. Mitt didn’t seek out these odd “binders full of women” out. The Boston Phoenix‘s David S. Bernstein explains:

What actually happened was that in 2002 — prior to the election, not even knowing yet whether it would be a Republican or Democratic administration — a bipartisan group of women in Massachusetts formed MassGAP to address the problem of few women in senior leadership positions in state government. There were more than 40 organizations involved with the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus (also bipartisan) as the lead sponsor.

They did the research and put together the binder full of women qualified for all the different cabinet positions, agency heads, and authorities and commissions. They presented this binder to Governor Romney when he was elected.

During last night's presidential debate, Romney made the claim that he specifically requested information on women that were qualified for cabinet and other appointed government positions. This appears not to have been the case. Another instance of Mitt Romney making something up to appeal to a key constituency (in this case women). This is why I consider Mitt Romney to be a serial-panderer.