(1) Willard Inc. and his handlers demonstrated that it is possible for a man to get up in front of a national TV audience and not just lie his head off but at almost every point flatly contradict things he has said just as publicly and: (a) be lying both times, and (b) have nobody in the infotainment noozemedia notice.
(2) That the president's handlers were totally unprepared for debating against blatant lies and complete reversals and denials employed by Mr. Romney. Which is kind of sad considering Romney's track record of complete fabrication and outright lies.
(3) Do we know whether moderator Jim Lehrer was acting out of compulsions invisible to the naked eye which made most of the questions suitable for a well-armed liar like Willard while also omitting from the discussion almost every subject of actual important regarding domestic affairs? I think again of that mock Republican presidential debate staged by ACN anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) on The Newsroom where Will as moderator asked real issues questions and in follow-up pressed each candidate stand-in for an actual answer.
I've always believed that G Ws second term fell apart not because the American public realized that it had been systematically lied to at every point during the Bush regime, but because Americans became angry at the woeful quality of the lies they were being fed. It was, like, personally insulting to them; we were being asked to swallow lies that wouldn't get past a learning impaired four-year-old!
And so, in accord with the gospel delivered unto them by St. Ronnie the Reagan, which tells neo cons that as Americans they're entitled to a reality that makes them feel good and never ever have to settle for any so-called reality that doesn't, they completely expunged the Bush regime from memory -- without, however, ever turning against either its policies or its procedures.
Similarly, the bumbling failures of the Willard presidential circus to date, has repelled many of those same Americans who are demanding nothing more than their a minimum standard in the bullshit they're asked to swallow.
The real danger lies in the fear that if Willard's people have truly gotten their fabrication act together, their guy is already immunized against charges of "flip-flopping," and accusations of "inconsistencies" or "contradictions" or even calling out the lies, will be unlikely to have any real impact, since that portion of the public's only question is most likely to be, "Does this candidate make me feel better about preferred my reality ?"
Speaking of reversals, denials and lies:
Here is Mitt stating that he will drop the tax rate to 20%, AND then denying that he ever mentioned tax cuts.
http://youtu.be/ZykA7oQm8Eg
Some facts about the Romney Tax plans:
http://taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/romney-plan.cfm
http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-debate-economic-plan-2012-10#1-maintain-the-bush-tax-cuts-on-personal-income-1
There is reality, and there is conservative consensus reality where lies do not matter the next day.
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