An interesting confrontation happened between Sununu and Soledad O'Brion happened last week. He repeated a conservative myth regarding Barack Obama's choice of words and the incident in Iran. It is the same myth which Romney referred to in his debate, and which he was corrected on.
It's not a difficult thing to go listen to the recording and verify that he did in fact use the words she referred to.
The interesting thing about all of this, is that Sununu actually seems to believe that he really didn't say them, and I have no doubt that Romney believed it too. There is a lesson here in believing the stuff that you read on a conservative blogs these days, and there is a lesson for us too.
Lots of people like to view conservatives today as all being part of some sort of massive conspiracy. They attribute all kinds of terrible plans to them ad assume they are willfully ignoring the damage that they do. But that isn't true; actually they don't know about the effects because they never look them up. They've avoided looking too closely into the lives of the poor and middle class, they let us do that. And when they hear something they don't like, they can just fall back on the assumption that it's a liberal conspiracy and we are lying.
You might assume that the rich oil company executives who frequently fund this stuff, or even the Koch Brothers are aware of the damage to the environment, but for the most part they aren't. They truly believe that they aren't doing as much damage as they are, because it's human nature to come to believe the things which we say, especially when those things make money for us.
That's important to remember for a couple reasons, not the least of which was revealed in the debate. Mitt Romney really believed something that conservatives were shopping around regarding with Obama said, and he believed it with such certainty that it caused him to stumble in the middle of a debate. He could easily have found out that it wasn't true, but he didn't.
A lot of times, the conservative tendency to just detach themselves from reality actually seems like an advantage, and in the short term it really is. Conservatives tend to fall into lockstep and believe what their leaders tell them to an extent which is a little frightening, and simply ignore any criticism they receive.
What happened in the debate is the eventual result, however. You can ignore reality for awhile, but eventually there are consequences.