Because at best, drinking games get old, and leave you with a hangover. Or dead from alcohol poisoning, if you lift a glass to every lie and Mitt Romney is on that podium. We wouldn't want that to happen; death is a bad thing, and besides, dead people can't vote.
And bingo is funnier, besides.
No, but seriously. Since Steve Benen has spent the past year giving us a meticulous catalog of Romney Lies, with links to supporting evidence for the corrections, it seems at least possible that it would be a relatively simple job to gather up the best of them -- the most outrageous, the most clearly insults to the voting public -- and run them through some sort of bingo-card generator, so that a card could be issued to anyone who wanted to play. Maybe even so simple that it could be done in time for tomorrow night, when pundits are already warning us to expect some "serious media malpractice."
So, what say you all? Amusing enough to be worth the trouble of setting it up? Boring and/or terminally twee? Marginal as a game, but maybe worth it for the potential press release if Romney doesn't go half an hour before the first player calls bingo?
Mind you, as the ghost of a fictional Victorian poltroon, I have no idea how one would write the code for that bingo-card generator. (It's a wonder I've learned to use the Internet, even if we do have a great fast connection here in Purgatory.) But I've seen bingo card generators made in other contexts, so I do know it's possible. And I know some people I could potentially ask about it, if there were enough interest -- though I suspect that if there is enough interest, there are people right here on dKos who could do it better and faster. Which is to say, who would have a better shot of being ready by the opening bell tomorrow night.
So I toss this out to the community at large, for what it may be worth. I (obviously) have no proprietary feelings about the idea; it struck me only as a potentially useful tool for demonstrating the degree to which Romney's entire pitch to the nation is founded upon howlers that he knows to be howlers -- and possibly providing a soothing distraction for players while we endure the mingled sick terror and excitement of the debate itself.