MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary: Republicans Flub the Facts at Iowa Debate

MotherJones.com MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary: Republicans Flub the Facts at Iowa Debate:

"-Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney falsely claimed U.S. job growth had been nearly 17 times faster than Europe's. Actually, European Union employment grew faster than that of the U.S. last year. Romney's source for the information told
FactCheck.org that he himself would no longer use the figures.
-Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused Democratic candidates of 'appeasement' toward Islamic terrorists. In fact, leading Democratic candidates have spoken out strongly against terrorism.
-Sen. John McCain claimed American families spend $140 billion of their income preparing federal income tax returns. We find no support for that figure, which the Internal Revenue Service puts at $19 billion.
-Rep. Tom Tancredo claimed illegal immigrants 'are taking a large
part of our health care dollars.' But the independent Rand Corp. estimates that
undocumented immigrants account for 1.5 percent of health care spending or
less."

Why do they think they can still get away with this?