that the gop "brain trust(s)" sit in a black light lit basement, listening to Pink Floyd, smoking some really good weed, as they conduct talking point strategy meetings. I can just hear them, giggling as they ask, then discount, whether their faithful will even question the validity of the talking point.

(Hey, I really do like PF and used to REALLY like the weed; I only mentioning them for their psychedelic effect ... that and I recall making some REALLY bad decisions after combining the two.)

This idiotic claim falls under the mildest of critical thinking IMHO.

believe anything negative they're told about the President.

*sigh*

and how the recession and recovery has been different for men and women. When I heard this latest romney stat my first thought was "that's got to be some horrible abuse of statistics".

That first graph really does a great job of telling the story. Romney's reasoning is so whack that after next month's report (where I expect continued small improvements for both men and women) men will have gained jobs during the obama administration while women will still be slightly below and Romney could claim that women had all the job losses during the obama administration! Obviously an absurd characterization.

Here's where things get ha-ha funny. In a few months both men AND women will have recovered all the jobs lost since the beginning of the obama administration. The romney campaign is basically conceding that this is an appropriate way of looking at the recovery. So when obama comes back in the summer and says "we created more jobs for both men and women" what's romney going to say? "It doesn't count now"? Actually that'd be pretty typical romney.