Everything is fair game because everything that comes out of the mouths of Republicans could be a lie. At least that seems to be the modus operendi at PolitiFact these days.

The latest from the venerable watchdogs and guardians of the republic: Fact-checking Scott Walker’s $1 Kohl’s sweater claim.

Walker indicated on Twitter that he bought the sweater while in the Granite State.

He didn’t identify the location, but there is a Kohl’s in Hooksett, about 13 miles from Concord. We called the store, and an employee in menswear said all of the store’s henley sweaters were mixed with other items on clearance racks.

Based on photos of Walker in the sweater, it appears to be a “Chaps Twisted Button Mock Sweater” in a color called “walnut twist.” We couldn’t find that sweater available on the Kohl’s web site, so we visited the Kohl’s store in Glendale to paw through the clearance racks.

There we found plenty of Chaps sweaters marked between 80 and 90 percent off — an even deeper cut than the 70% Walker cited when describing the deal. Some of the sweaters we found were originally priced at $70 and marked down to $7.

Now, that’s not $1. But Walker did say he used his “Kohl’s Cash” — a coupon of sorts that is generated based on how much a customer purchased in an earlier visit to the store.

Thus, he could have easily gotten one for $1 out-of-pocket. We rate the claim True.

Well thank goodness that is settled. Think of the turmoil that would have ensued if that story couldn’t be verified?

This isn’t to say that Scott Walker isn’t fair game. He is an almost-certain presidential candidate. But the fact-checking itself has seemingly taken a turn for the bizarre and useless. How many man-hours were spent to determine if Scott Walker really purchased this sweater for $1.00? How many words were spent to determine what actually happened during Scott Walker’s tenure at Marquette? And while it wasn’t PolitiFact, this newspaper even devoted column inches to the mystery of Walker’s bald spot.

Let this be a modest proposal: spend time fact-checking the things that actually might matter.