Reporters are beginning to do their jobs. When candidates repeatedly make claims that have been debunked already, they’re calling them out on these lies. Tucker Bounds has repeated his lies so often that it’s almost as if he actually believes them to be true. Sarah Palin admitted that the “thanks, but no thanks” claim is a stretch. But then she turned right around and put it back in her stump speech.

What I don’t understand is why they are lying about simple facts that are so easy to fact-check, such as whether or not Palin has been to Iraq. CNN hits the nail on the head on this one. The lies are designed to appeal to the base, who are conditioned to believe the candidates and hear what they want to hear. So their latest strategy is to bank on the fact that people are “blinded by love?”