Big surprise: Republicans have little use for facts when it comes to election campaigns. In fact, facts are irrelevant as far as they are concerned. The only thing that matters? This:
John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said the campaign is entering a stage in which skirmishes over the facts are less important than the dominant themes that are forming voters’ opinions of the candidates.
“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent,” Feehery said. “As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”
These little facts don’t matter. Because there are “bigger truths” that don’t need facts to justify them. In other times, we would call these “bigger truths” prevarications, canards, gross exaggerations, distortions, falsehoods, deceits or simply flat out lies. But, we live in the political era of Bush and Rove, where Republicans get to invent their own reality. And if that reality requires you to lie your ass off, so what? In other words, that’s your basic Republican electoral strategy in a nutshell.
