If the past decade has taught us anything, it’s that Republicans and their media Wurlitzer are able to say and do the most outrageous things imaginable, be proved absolutely wrong by any reasonable standard, and not be held to account by the mainstream media---or even, for the most part--- the Democratic Party. Prominent examples include Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Andrew Breitbart, Douglas Feith, Tucker Carlson, Dick Armey, Tony Blankley, John Podhoretz, Erick Erickson, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Newt Gingrich, and Sarah Palin.
"How in the world," you ask, "can these people keep getting re-elected, keep getting book contracts, keep getting hired to pontificate, and keep being taken seriously when they have accumulated such a track record of being horribly, stunningly, consistently, relentlessly, and willfully WRONG?"
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