At one time, I thought it was some kind of sickness - like the sex. But I am convinced, from watching his proteges (Mike Moore, Terry McAuliffe, Ted Kennedy), that it is in fact a strategy: accuse your opponents of the very thing you are guilty - and do it FIRST, if at all possible. Of course, that means they must be truly, deliberately evil people. But is that so hard to believe? ("Absolute power...") Based on this understanding, it is always pretty clear what they're up to. Unfortunately, he's also something of a Svengali and there are a lot of really, really gullible people out there. I am deeply saddened (truly).
But I am convinced, from watching his proteges (Mike Moore, Terry McAuliffe, Ted Kennedy), that it is in fact a strategy: accuse your opponents of the very thing you are guilty - and do it FIRST, if at all possible.
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This is absolutely the bedrock of dem politics. Most of the time what they accuse us of, we haven't even dreamed of doing, much less ARE doing it.
Once we know this, we can recognize their behavior just by holding up a mirror to what they are accusing us of. They telegraph their own venality.