Update 2 on Mitt Romney and his campaign bringing black VIPs to the NAACP Convention for support

So........why would the Mitts on R-money campaign try to lie about this?  Why not just fess up and admit that he brought a whole LOT of mostly black guests as his supporters, apparently at his expense, and that they were only there for his speech, and they - not members of the NAACP - were the 'black leaders' with whom he spoke? 

Why try to mislead people into believing that there are secret NAACP supporters of R-money?  These people who met with Mitts on R-money aren't 'secret' supporters, who won't, as he put it to Faux News, admit they aren't going to vote for Obama.  These are boldly open supporters of the right who claim that at every opportunity! 

WHO were those black people brought in to the NAACP convention to cheer and applaud Mitt?

I haven't heard back from the NAACP office in Washington, but thegrio blog got the information, and already did interviews:

A source close to the proceedings provided theGrio with a list of 22 people, including 10 VIPs, Romney asked the NAACP to provide credentials for, and 12 others for whom “general” admission was requested. The general admission invites went to Romney campaign staffers and advisers, along with several members of a Texas black Republican group. The campaign reportedly asked for eight additional passes, though it’s not clear whether they were used.
Those on the VIP list include prominent black Republicans: the current lieutenant governor of Florida, Jennifer Carroll, and the former Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush, Rod Paige. Also among the VIP’s: rising GOP star Mia Love, vying to become the first black Republican member of Congress from Utah; another black Republican congressional candidate, Ryan Frazier, who is running for office in Colorado; Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Pastor Jeffrey Brown, described in the request as a “personal friend of WMR,” referring to Willard “Mitt” Romney. Brown is also the executive director of the Boston TenPoint Coalition, a conservative religious organization which focuses on mobilizing communities around programs for black and Latino youth.
Shelton says they are also people who don’t typically come to the NAACP convention.
“Whenever a candidate comes” to the convention, Shelton told TheGrio, “usually they have local elected officials, VIPs, etc.,” attend with them. “We always take care of them,” Shelton said, “so we told him ‘no problem.’ We were just delighted to have him.”
“These are people who don’t normally come to the NAACP convention,” Shelton said. “And that’s OK. Mr. Romney wanted them and we provided credentials for all of them.”
Innis and Carroll discussed their appearance at the convention with NBC News‘ Lean Forward blog, which reported that after the speech, the Romney campaign issued a statement from Carroll attacking President Obama’s policies.

Andrea Saul, a Romney campaign spokeswoman, told Lean Forward Wednesday night that Shelton’s claims were “not true.” Asked Thursday about Carroll’s statement that she attended the speech as a guest of the Romney campaign, and Innis’s that he was urged to go by people connected to the campaign, Saul did not immediately respond.
Carroll argued to Lean Forward that Romney received a warm reception from rank-and-file NAACP members. At one point, she noted, he was applauded by half the audience. “He didn’t bring half of the audience,” she said.
Both Carroll and Innis also said they were among a group of black conservative leaders who met with Romney after the speech. Romney said on Fox News Wednesday that these leaders told him:”A lot of folks do not want to say they will not vote for President Obama but they are disappointed in his lack of policies to improve the schools.”

Not all of the 22 people the NAACP issued credentials for, but Shelton estimated that there were at least 15 people in what he described as Romney’s “cheering section.” And he said that since no NAACP members met with Romney after the speech, he presumes that his VIPs were the ones he described meeting with in his appearance on Fox.
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So R-money brought his own cheering section, that would be no big deal.  But to lie about inviting his own cheering section, to lie by omission about who he met with after the speech so as to imply it was leadership from the NAACP, and to lie about paying for their transportation (and presumably any hospitality, possibly food and lodging) THAT is NOT something that should be acceptable or tolerated.  That is just plain straight up dishonest, dishonest on the part of R-money, dishonest on the part of his campaign (who are establishing a pattern of inaccurate and dishonest statements on R-money's behalf).
What else will R-money, and his campaign on behalf of R-money, lie about next?  Why would anyone, even conservatives, support someone who doesn't want to be asked, or to honestly answer, legitimate questions about his positions and his activities? 

Apparently Mittens thinks who his cheering section is, and how they got to the NAACP convention is none of our business -- and as a corollary, it's then ok to lie to us all.

A better question, given this pattern of dishonesty and deceit, why is this man the presumptive GOP candidate?  What kind of values as a party, and as conservatives, does this demonstrate? Not good ones.