In the past, something like Romney’s comments about the 47% would have been downplayed or ignored. Or they would have spent most of the time creating a false equivalence with what Obama said about people clinging to guns and religion. But I think now they are more willing to call them.

I REALLY liked Bill Clinton’s observation that when you let your agenda be ruled by ideaology instead of evidence its gets harder and harder to fit the evidence into an argument to support pre-conceived conclusions, and that’s is what has been more visibly happening this campaign. The GOP has had to bend reality so far out of whack to match their talking points that is blindingly obvious to anyone that isn’t already in the same echo chamber.

And finally, all politicians “lie”, but there is a difference in this election and the last few years. Obama lies like a politician – which means he sets up his opposition’s statements as Straw Men and then lights them, not always caring that the Straw Man is not the actual opposiiton position. Romnwy lies like a murder suspect – hammering away on points he KNOWS are lies and amping the volume when it is pointed out.

Hopefully we can spend the next four years getting another party / option in play because we can’t run a country this way.