The biggest loser,

in this election has been 'the truth'. Mitt Romney's campaign has demonstrated time and again that he'll say anything that he's thinks will translate into votes;

PolitiFact has chronicled 19 “pants on fire” lies by Mr. Romney and 7 by Mr. Obama since 2007, but Mr. Romney’s whoppers have been qualitatively far worse: the “apology tour,” the “government takeover of health care,” the “$4,000 tax hike on middle class families,” the gutting of welfare-to-work rules, the shipment by Chrysler of jobs from Ohio to China. Said one of his pollsters, Neil Newhouse, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.”

      

The voters, of course, may well recoil against these cynical manipulations at the polls. But win or lose, the Romney campaign has placed a big and historic bet on the proposition that facts can be ignored, more or less, with impunity. We'll see, in the next day, if the voters are as stupid as Mitt thinks they are. 'Hey Mitt, we're not all FOXNews sheep.'