Over at my home base at Campaign for America's Future we've been pursuing a project, and would love to bring TAPPED's readers onboard for the fun. I made the observation that Ronald Reagan used to quip, "Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not so much that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." Like all of Reagan's most brilliant quips it was designed to absolve him from having to take a substantive position—in this case so, when he made up lies about how liberals were lying (in this case about Social Security's fiscal health; what goes around comes around), he could say he never called anyone a "liar."
It's actually, however, a handy construction when thinking about conservatives, because it is indeed so hard to know, and so rhetorically disruptive, whether the conservative you're debating is in fact lying, or is instead merely ignorant, or is guilty of some opportunistic combination of both.
With that in mind, I coined the term "NotSo's" to describe habitually false utterances by conservatives that may or may not be the product of actual fraud.
Here was one of my inspirations:
