Mitt Romney: Jeep will move all production to China

Many thanks to my partner for his last presentation. I do not want this next statement to appear haughty, and place my conduct points at risk, but I feel that it is necessary that I say it.Although there are various ways of defining an "argument," and even different forms of arguments, all of them essentially follow the same vein. That is, an argument is a logical chain - a series of statements, called "propositions," one of which is required by the others, called the "conclusion." The classic example of an argument (from my experience) is:Proposition 1: 1 Proposition 2: +2Proposition 3/Conclusion: Therefore 3 My argument for this debate is:P1: Romney Claims that "All Jeep production will be moved to China." P2: According to the CEO of Chrysler, this is an expansion of new manufacturing into China, not a move away from AmericaP3: Jeep has announced no plans to move any work away from America into ChinaP4: Right wing blogs mutated the facts, and Mr. Romney repeated the inaccurate reportingP4/C: Therefore, Mr. Romney was mistakenTo which I add, that Mr. Romney cannot possibly be unaware that his claims are not true any longer. Since he continues to repeat them, his claims are now "lies," because he is intentionally passing bad information.In order for this argument that I have built to be challenged, the propositions will have to be demonstrated as not requiring my conclusion, or that enough of them are in error as to discredit that conclusion. Since my propositions are essentially only a simple narrative of verifiable events, disproving any of them will be difficult: The CEO of Chrysler did issue the statement I cited Mr. Romney did make the statement that I cited The Jeep announcements of American factory closings have not been presented The right wing blogs did change the Bloomberg story significantly from the original, in a manner that closely resembles Mr. Romney's statement As I present this argument, I invite my partner to "challenge" it, or to attempt to demonstrate in some important way that I am in error. There are many ways that this can potentially be done. (Advanced debaters will recognize that I am simplifying the process. I ask that criticisms of this be withheld, as I am aware that I am offering only an 'abridged' explanation.) After a fashion, my partner has offered a number of opinions, which can only be described - they cannot actually be refuted; how can I 'correct' him on his own opinions? He attempts to attack my premise that Jeep is not shuttering American factories to move that work to China - by agreeing with me that Jeep is expanding it's operations in China. He does successfully aim an attack on my statement that Jeep will be adding 5,700 jobs in the US... but this challenge fails because the article was cited, correctly (in source 1 [1]).Finally, the statement: "Romney in fact made a true claim as evidenced by citation 2 in the previous round"Breaks down as follows:P1: Citation 2 is accurate, thereforeP2: Mr. Romney made an accurate statement when he claimed that all Jeep production will be stopped in the US, and moved to China However, my citation reported nothing that I am aware of that would do anything to support such a claim. In fact, that article was a story that was intended to debunk Romney's claim, by reporting that the CEO of Chrysler was attempting to rebut Governor Romney's inaccurate claim. Essentially, we are asked to believe that right wing blogs are in a better position to know whether or not Jeep factories will close in the US in favor of China - than the CEO of the company himself. This almost begs the question: "Will the right wing blogs still be correct when Jeep still doesn't move all of it's production to China?"I am making a verifiable statement of fact. It either is, or is not, true. American workers either are, or are not, making Jeeps in the US, and will (or will not) continue to do so. The company has (or has not) announced plans to close American factories and move all of that work to China. I am claiming that the Jeep factories that are operating in the US are really there...and that Jeep has made no announcements that the company will change this. To support this argument, I will include this link to the Chrysler LLC website, so that it can be examined for any such statement: http://www.chryslergroupllc.com...I remind readers that it is a legal requirement that investors be made aware of any such action by Chrysler.Therefore, my argument as of this round is to simply extend my arguments, with all of my citations and references intact.