Having just watched Dick Blumenthal do his best to rebut charges that he lied about his service record, one phrase stood out: "on a few occasions." Those four words will make this a very tough thing for him to overcome. Because while voters may be willing to forgive a simple slip of the tongue that went uncorrected, Blumenthal is admitting to misspeaking on a number of occasions (whether it's three times or thirty times is irrelevant).

And that, to pinch a phrase from Sean's earlier post, gives his defense a distinct odor of "truthiness" - which is doubly harmful since he looks like he was playing fast and loose with the truth in his press conference in the same way he appears to have done with his service record "on a few occasions."

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