Why do we always allow

[rbrnmw]

The republicans to frame the debate? Why do we feel the need to refute the the most insane statements it happened with President Clinton the Paula Jones suit one idiotic distraction after another but with President Obama it is even worse they have framed the debate for too long we all need to put a stop to this

[BuyingThyme]

1. Somebody has to.

[rbrnmw]

2. revision

what I meant is that the republicans come out with ludicrious statement we have to defend that keeps us from having a debate about the issues republican win (with the help of MSM) by making tons of lies and leave them there even when they know its a damn lie and we cave for example Willie Horton, whitewater paula jone w's missing from keyboards no president has ever addressed public school children we death panels it goes on and on and on they have no new ideas but they damn sure know how to sling shit and the dumbed down sheeple hear and spread it just like the birthers have done

[Skittles]

3. the corporate media is a huge problem

they allow repukes' ridiculous meltdowns to be seen as LEGITIMATE DEBATE, rather than ridiculing them as the absurd shit it really is

[TheKentuckian]

4. No choice. Unfortunately, ignoring them fails to make them go away.

We'd have a little more room to brush them off but the corporate media makes sure their nonsense gets treated as somewhere between gospel and a valid counterpoint no matter how delusional or inane.

[Indi Guy]

5. Democratic Leaders Almost Always Underestimate...

...the willingness of the Republican leadership to organize under successive levels of slime.