[steve-b]

an upstanding, high-caliber, former war hero because he capitulated to a venal George Mitchell plot to break the "read my lips" pledge

It's traditional to insert more padding than this between mutually exclusive statements.

[Cedric]

They're not.

[Cedric]

Unless {as I suspect} you're numbered among the crowd who concluded that because Bush-41 was naive and fell for Mitchell's "for the good of the country" ruse, we might as well go ahead and elect a pathological liar, who, oh by the way, is also a tax-cheat, monanizer, serial adulterer, draft dogder and stealth socialist!