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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This, my slick conservative friend, is a dodge. You think he deserves it, or you wouldn't keep spreading this crap.
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Well, let's be clear here. I do think that he made the choice to be a single-issue persona, and, to that extent, yeah, I do think he deserves what happens when your single issue suddenly starts to tilt.
If you mean, though, that I think he deserves to be smeared, not so fast. I don't. If the Swifties stuff turns out to be false, then he certainly did nothing to deserve the lies.
But we do know, now, that at least the Cambodia-related stuff was true. We know that he used that story several times as a selling point for various political ends, and we know that he has admitted that it wasn't true. I do think he deserves some opprobrium for lying to serve his political ends.
But the medal stuff? Not a clue. I'll say he deserves that stuff theday I'm convinced it's true. We're not there yet.
