The old saying of "If you tell a lie enough, it becomes truth" works in this case. i think people have become so numbed by life and don't have either the time or the energy to really look beyond their credit card and mortgage bills to worry about what this guy says or doesn't say. Another reason why scumbags (in both parties) continue to get elected is that the really intelligent people in this country won't get involved in politics. Why would they with all of the nonsense that goes around. On this very site I had recently posted an article Patti Davis Regan who was commenting on the 4 year anniversary of Ronald Reagan's (her father) death. One of the things she had mentioned was that he wouldn't have like all of the vitriol that today's politics have evolved into. Patti, you should know is completely on the opposite side of the political spectrum than her father was so it wasn't about "the legacy" of Reagan or anything like that. You should see some of the smear that those on the far-left of this board posted in reply. Blew my mind. I don't even think they read it. They just saw Reagan's name and went nuts. But that is today's political climate. Now who the hell is their right mind would want to run for anything in that kind of enviornment? The far-left of this country are the angriest, most bigoted, out of touch, self-loathing group of people possibly on the planet. They are the worst.