January 30, 2008
A surge of dishonesty

With any luck, few Americans tuned in to tonight's Republican debate. Those who did saw our likely nominee at his worst. McCain not only persisted in his dishonest claim that Mitt Romney supported a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq, he used one evasion after another to try to make it stick.

McCain’s first line of defense was that Romney had used the word timetable which was a “buzzwordâ€