Untruths Have Consequences for Politicians

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WASHINGTON -- Conservatives leapt to their feet when Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney declared Democrats the party of "No!" -- no to balanced budgets, limits on lawsuits, tax cuts and tough interrogations of terror suspects.

But their applause last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference was for an illusion. Romney's assertions lacked context at best and at worst were flat-out wrong.

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Untruths Have Consequences for Politicians

While Romney and fellow Republicans were filling the air with red- meat distortions, liberal Democratic activists were torturing facts online as they wrote commentary about the conservative gathering.

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