This is sometimes why we sometimes lose - the Democratic commitment to a reality-based approach. President Obama gets beat in the first debate, and all OUR people are the first to admit it - in front of the world and the undecided voters.
Romney gets creamed in the third debate just as badly - based on opinion polls! - and the Republicans are out there screaming that they won.
What they know is that most people didn't watch the debates - they just look on the teevee later to see who won. And of course the MSM reports dutifully that one side says they won and the other says no they won, so it must be a tie.
I guess people who are attracted to the Democratic party are the types of people who believe in honesty, and who don't want to look stupid. I mean, how could you go up in front of the American people, on national TV, and proclaim that Romney won that debate, when clearly he did not - wouldn't you feel like an idiot? But Republicans could stand in front of God and declare authoritatively that the sun rises in the west and anyone who disagrees must be a communist.
And sometimes, that's where they get us.
If Chris Matthews and others who were publicly hand-wringing after the first debate had screwed up their courage and just lied through their teeth and said they thought Obama clearly won, that he was presidential, that Romney was overly aggressive, and that this debate sealed the deal for the president, the negative response would not have been as bad, and we might not be where we are today.
So on the one hand I really am not sure I want to be part of a party that is comfortable with lying, fibbing, stretching the truth or telling whoppers - but some days I wish we would just lie like those bastards lie