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Do you really think it was "Romney lies" that did in Perry or Bachmann or Caine or Santorum or Gingrich? Didn't they have obvious negatives? If any of them had gotten the nomination the DNC would have hammered away at those negatives. I don't see any of them doing any better than Romney did, at least according to the polling data, and the polls did come closer to the actual result than people who scoffed at them.

Were you paying attention during the South Carolina and Florida primaries?

Romney got hammered in SC, and then went on an all-out attack lying about the made up ethics charges against Newt while he was speaker.

He didn't misspeak, he didn't give his opinion, HE LIED.

He and his surrogates did the same thing to all the other candidates that threatened him.

You ask me if I think "Romney lies" did in the other candidates and if I am totally discounting the blemishes on the other candidates?

That is a two-part question:

1. IF Romney had run an above-board campaign during the primaries, he would have lost. No lying, Romney would have lost.
2. The negatives on the other candidates, whatever they were, did not rise to the level of the dirty campaigning by Romney nor did it rise anywhere near to the Progressive Liberal history that Romney owns.