Even more reason for the libs to accuse him of being a plant. Whether he was or not makes no difference - perception is reality.
Yep, that's the whole idea of making the accusation. In debate, if you use an example that is damaging, the knee jerk reaction of the defender is to try and minimize that damage. With respect to one in their midst "getting it", If they are'nt particularly bothered about truth to begin with, the first thing to do is level a charge of planting someone. Another angle on that is to say, well they were never really one of us anyway.. This is a defense mechanism that protects the indoctrinates from having to deal with reality.
I was on a thread just in the past few days where someone from a religious group to remain unnamed advised that a person that used to be from that group disagreed with certain of their policies and stopped attending. He'd been raised in the religion going to their schools, etc and as soon as he disagreed - boom, he was not one of them. Others who convert from a religion - even the same religion - are just evil. But, indoctrinates will be indoctrinates..