Stick out your manly chest and just make the stuff up, Bob. Hell yar!

It's so much easier to explain what I mean now that our friends at Colorado Media Matters are on the case --

In an interview featured September 19 on his Washingtonpost.com blog, "The Fix," Chris Cillizza highlighted Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer's assertion that, regarding fundraising, "I'm just a guy. I don't hang out with millionaires for a living." In fact, Federal Election Commission (FEC) data indicate that millionaire associates -- including Schaffer's employer, Aspect Energy chairman Alex Cranberg -- have contributed to his campaign. According to Cillizza's post, Schaffer also "rejected the perception -- fostered by Democrats -- that he is too conservative to win statewide" and quoted Schaffer's claim that he voted against his party "a lot" while serving in Congress from 1997 to 2003. However, according to The Washington Post's "The U.S. Congress Votes Database," Schaffer voted with the Republican Party more than 80 percent of the time during his three terms in Congress.

Ah, you know, none of it has to be true, of course. What would be the fun in that, and this Washington Post blogger doesn't seem to mind either way.