Pretending that recent history didn't happen isn't one of the choices.

Sadly, it is. And since the MSM doesn't seem to know how to use "the Google", and since their target voters pride themselves on knowing nothing, it remains a very viable one.

Correction; they have a few credible and responsible choices. Clearly, none of them are going for any of those choices. They are counting on the ignorance of those they are pandering to and the indifference of the press to their past positions. It's a can't lose proposition.

Steve, unfortunately, I think they'll get away with it. They'll have the help of their canned and processed Media wings, plus the do-nothing, know-nothing MSM as a whole. Our MSM rarely does historical context. Blogs do. But the MSM generally doesn't. And people really don't have long memories about these things to begin with.

Their brand of populism counts on ignorance, short memories and Media complicity. We all know there is plenty of that at the moment.

Pretending that recent history didn't happen isn't one of the choices.

Why not? On one issue after another the right-wingers lie, get called on their lies and go on lying without losing any credibility with their base.

And the same fucking media that labeled Al Gore a serial liar over a few made-up controversies lets the real serial liars get away with it over and over.

You just don't get it. Even President Bush was really against the bailout, but future President Obama hypnotized all of the Republicans with his powers of super evil and forced them to say things about it against their will. There really wasn't a financial crisis at all before Obama took office this year, that is also part of the brainwashing. Almost everyone in the country is under his control, don't you see how evil that makes Obama? Even Hitler wasn't this powerful!

d) Lie about it and say you have consistently been against it. Then lie again when caught. Pretty soon you will stop being challenged.

A kissable orphan...

Today's Arizona Daily Star: Arizona Science benefits flow from stimulus

University of Arizona researchers snared more than $83 million of the $21.5 billion in stimulus funds designated for scientific research in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, said Leslie Tolbert, UA vice president for research.

At a briefing held Monday at the UA's Bio5 Institute, Tolbert said the money had so far created or retained more than 157 jobs at the UA, in addition to buying expensive equipment for 125 projects, ranging from astronomy to anthropology.

In some cases, the money will create entire new programs, like the $13 million Center for Interface Science: Hybrid Solar-Electric Materials, headed by Neal Armstrong of the Chemistry and Optical Sciences departments.

Armstrong said he has already hired or retained 30 of the 50 graduate students, scientists and technicians who will work on the "next generation" of easily deployed, lightweight solar cells as part of the Department of Energy's push to advance research into renewable energy.

Other projects were already in the pipeline. The Steward Observatory will receive $10 million in continuing support for its development of a near-infrared camera called NIRcam, for NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope. NIRcam is headed by astronomer Marcia Rieke.

Pretending that recent history didn't happen isn't one of the choices.

As others have noted, of course it is.

Just look at the recent mini-scandal when Norah O'Donnell pointed out to a Palin-groupie (complete with bailout trashing t-shirt) that her hero had in fact supported the bailout.

The reaction:

1.) Disbelief "where did you hear that"
2.) Denial "I don't think she did"
3.) Outrage that O'Donnell had badgered a barely teenage 13 year old child (who is actually 17)
4.) Beck's meltdown against the liberal media.

Not mentioned by the FOX cohort?

That Sarah Palin actually publicly supported the $700 billion bailout.

Posted by: Patrick
d) Lie about it and say you have consistently been against it. Then lie again when caught. Pretty soon you will stop being challenged.

I have to say this is exactly how I behave , mention a few points and observe the magic . Should the matter remain observably constant I magically stop offering .

Pretending works. In alliance with America's corporate media, both the republican and democratic party establishments continue to pretend they were honestly misled into unleashing war upon Iraq. With a bipartisan wink-and-nod, the agents of treason have been left unmolested. It's as if Saddam had proclaimed on 9/11 that he had indeed orchestrated the attacks, for all the repercussions suffered by our domestic traitors. Pretending is what the political establishment of the United States does best of all.

"Sarah Palin endorsed the bailout; now she doesn't like it anymore."

Ah, but Tony Blankley said on 'Left, Right, & Center', that she was "just being a good soldier" and taking the same position as McCain. NOW she is free to express her OWN opinion.

Right.

Fiorina is really a perfect GOP candidate. Ostensible marketing whiz, managed to run three separate highly respected tech companies into the ground and may have single-handedly set the high-performance computer market back by a generation.

As with many above, I have to respectfully disagree with Steve. Lying is what the GOP does best: Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Limbaugh, ad nauseum, and their legion of sociopaths care little of truth or consequences except when put under oath...then suddenly it's "I don't recall" or the exercising of 5th Amendment rights. And Americans are too busy watching American Idol to know their being screwed.