Rick Perlstein recently wrote an article for The Baffler titled The Long Con that nicely describes the addiction of American conservatives to the realms of untruth: not just blatant lies about ideological matters, but get-rich-quick scams and grifting as well, all of which at one time or another is hidden under a pious mask and often seasoned with bigotry.

I thought of this when I saw Bluestem Prairie’s latest limning of the shambling mound of dishonesty that is Bachmann ally Allen Quist...