Apparently, it wasn't the lies; it was the lice.

James Taranto, in Best of the Web, collected these comments (yeh, yeh: I'm qouting his quotations. So what? [g]): *** QUOTE *** "Democrats nationwide are scratching their heads today and trying to regroup after resounding defeats for the White House and in Congress." -- Katie Couric http://www.fednews.com/transcript.htm?id=20041104t0912 , "Today," Nov. 4 "Applying the tried-and-true formula for success, Democrats were scratching their heads yesterday, wondering how Sen. John Kerry lost Ohio to President Bush by 2 percentage points."-- Columbus Dispatch http://www.columbusdispatch.com/ , Nov. 4 "Sixty-five percent of the voters in Preble County backed the president this year... The support for Bush leaves the Democrats scratching their heads."-- Palladium-Item http://www.pal-item.com/ (Richmond, Ind.), Nov. 4 "The liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which has long dominated its leadership, seems stunned that a clear majority of Americans chose to re-elect a president that exudes courage, confidence and a faith that is so easily identifiable. They are scratching their heads at the polls which reveal that the issue that mattered most to voters in this election was not the economy, or security--but moral values."-- Rebecca Hagelin http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/rh20041105.shtml , TownHall.com, Nov. 5 "Other Democratic strategists (the same ones who predicted a huge pro-Kerry youth vote) are scratching their heads over the Bush victory."-- Laura Ingraham http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Ingraham20041105.shtml , TownHall.com, Nov. 5 "Bush was reelected because he told Americans in the clearest possible language who is he and what he stands for. Just enough of them liked what they heard. Kerry left voters, including many people who voted for him, scratching their heads."-- Eileen McNamara http://www.boston.com/news/ , Boston Globe, Nov. 7 "When Sausalito resident Marty Krasney was in Ohio this month working on the Kerry campaign, he met a woman with a life-threatening disease who acked health care insurance and could have benefited from stem cell research. Krasney was surprised when the woman told him she planned to vote for George W. Bush, not John Kerry. 'I can't vote for a baby killer,' she told him. It is just such conundrum's [sic] that have Marin Democrats--like Democrats across the country--scratching their heads and pondering just what they need to do to restore the party's majority status."-- Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234%7E24407%7E2519930,00.html , Nov. 7 " 'Our analysis of Gwinnett County shows there are many, many more Democrats than showed up to vote,' said [Mike] Berlon, the chairman of the county party. 'We're all scratching our heads wondering why they didn't go to the polls.' "-- Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily Post http://www.gwinnettdailyonline.com/ Nov. 7 "The sound of head-scratching coming from Democratic circles will likely be as much a part of autumn as the rustle of leaves."-- Jabari Asim http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33885-2004Nov8.html , WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 8 *** END QUOTE *** [emphasis added] When there's that much scalp scratching going on it just has to be a lice or a serious skin condition. The LLMB needs to have that looked at.