They can not admit to a lie because they can not admit to a truth

They are incapable of lying. The Rightwing has backed itself into a corner. It has assembled a psychological structure based on the family, with an infallible (and unquestioned) Father/Leader paradigm. It can not begin to question its own basis for existence. Questioning is disloyal. You have seen many examples where they equate dissent with treason and sedition. They place an inordinate value on symbols. They are infatuated with public displays of fidelity and allegiance. They are focused on pledges of allegiance, flag and banner worship and adherence to mythical, unchallenged god-like "Founding Fathers". They insist on literal translations of the Bible (even though "Thou Shall Not Kill" can be interpreted as "Kill at will if it pleases you"). They are not capable of lying because they are not capable of accepting facts that do not comport with their cult like belief system.

They are incapable of lying because they do not posses the ability to absorb a fact that contradicts their belief system. It is like a organism that cannot ingest food being unable to regurgitate. Since they can't admit facts, they can't not bear false witness against facts. They can only shape the incoming data by peeling off the unacceptable, and then reshaping the result into something that is palatable. This behavior is the only way they can maintain their closed system of belief. Remember who you are dealing with: these are men and women of the 21st century that deny the existence of evolution. They claim a direct line to God, an unimpeachable ability to interpret Biblical texts (of varying translations) while simultaneously maintaining that the words are true verbatim, without need of interpretation. They insist that the Constitution is an immutable, unchanging document even though it has undergone two dozen ammendments and has a built in mechanism spelled out for changing it. Think about that. They can actually tell you the Constitution is not changeable while ARGUING THE MERITS OF AN AMMENDMENT (which is an English word for "change").

Rightwingers insist, beyond any rational statistical logic that we are a "right of center" country. How preposterous can you get? As if they can determine a center of a political spectrum that has no finite end points and then decide that most people are to the right of that mythical center of line with no known ends.

So you really just frustrate yourself when you try to hold them to a standard of truth. Truth is rooted in exploration of all of reality and the very basis of Conservative thought is to exclude reality. Remember, this is a group that actively campaigns against intellectualism. The Conservative movement is trapped. Like a bank robber in a the midst of a plan gone awry they are holed up in a cell of their own making with no way out. They don't believe in evolution. They have named themselves "conservative" which means to avoid change. They have lost 80% of the American public. They have embraced a backward looking view. They have cut off debate amongst themselves and they have dissolved into a party that spends its entire time focusing on who can pillory their fellow believers for not being faithful enough.

They cannot lie, but they can lay in the bed of their own making. They can wallow. And wallow they will in their suffocating mud of self affirming irrelevance.

Vasix, Rova, Virginia