FACT CHECK: Errant claims on auto bailout, taxes  February 23,
2012 - 4:05 AM GOP Debate  Republican presidential candidates,
from left, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick
Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich share the stage during a Republican
presidential debate Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP
Photo/Jae C. Hong)  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty Republican
presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept
coming.  Did Mitt Romney really cut taxes as Massachusetts
governor, as he asserted yet again? Or did he raise them by
hundreds of millions of dollars, as former Pennsylvania Sen.
Rick Santorum alleged? And how could Newt Gingrich have given
the nation four balanced budgets when he was only in Congress
for two of them?  There was something old, something new in the
misstatements of the candidates Wednesday in what was possibly
the last GOP debate.  A look at some of the claims and how they
compare with the facts:   ROMNEY t