Don’t forget that this was their strategy all along: deny, obfuscate, delay -then it’s all “old news” and why is anyone still bringing it up?
It was more than obvious at the time what was going on. Romney let them get away with it by not even bringing up the subject. Why? We’ll never know, but I expect that it had to do with “trusting” the American people to figure it out (aka..winning through noble losing).
However, elections run on politics, not so much principle (take that Glenn Beck!), and that’s why I support Trump for now. Reagan mercilessly savaged Carter on many occasions and won a 49 State landslide. I don’t remember much about Dole, but McCain and Romney fell all over themselves praising Obama and dared not speak a word against him.