The Romney surrogates are all waaay over-stimulated
by digby
Obama’s performance last night may have been somnambulant but Romney’s aggressive lying has put his surrogates on the defensive. It started last night with this amazing exchange between Rudy Nineleven and Chris Hayes:
This one was epic. Watch John Sununu lash out at Andrea Mitchell like a rabid dog:
I’m beginning to think that all this “tweaking” talk doesn’t mean what we thought it meant. These people are all very … over-stimulated.
The Romney campaign has been very open about their total disdain for the truth throughout this campaign. Recall this, from the campaign pollster:
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”
Last night they certainly made that clear.
Here is just a partial list of the many posts this morning outlining Romney’s numerous lies in last night’s debate. At Last Night’s Debate: Romney Told 27 Myths In 38 Minutes Romney’s Successful Debate Plan: Lying Mitt Romney’s debate performance: ‘Mostly fiction’ The First Debate: Mitt Romney’s Five Biggest Lies Romney lied about pre-existing conditions during debate Debate Debrief: Romney vs. The Truth Romney’s big Medicare lie takes center stage in debate
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