I don’t care where it was posted-—on the firehouse wall. Just like having the porn star in his own ads, Lyin Ted now has his PAC going after Trump’s wife.
And you’re right, in a previous generation this would have ended it.
Actually, Trump has been generous. He has given Lyin’ Ted the opportunity to deal with this, just like Carson gave him the opportunity to deal with the Iowa lie-—and Ted didn’t. I’m shocked that he’s so thick-headed. This was supposed to be the sharp guy.
I don’t go for unproven defamation. The moniker “Lyin’ Ted” is just a popular mythology built on a shaky foundation of misinformation mixed with bias, and I am disappointed someone of your accomplishment feels the need to use it.
Furthermore, if you cannot distinguish between an employee hiding her shady past and a prospective First Lady volunteering to have the world see her naked, then I suppose we are at a place past words. I cannot imagine a person of your intelligence being unable to make that distinction. It flummoxes me. The one is a world apart from the other.
The question about “thick heads” is interesting. Very often, when a witness refuses to change their story, even when it hurts them, it is because they really believe it is true. Ted saw the Iowa event for what it was, staffers taking a reasonable inference and getting it wrong. Nothing in that event, at all, suggests Ted engaged in deliberate deception. Errors in judgment do happen. Ted tried to apologize for the event multiple times, but was rebuffed. My theory on why he was not “forgiven” is that he did not himself perpetrate any lie, so he couldn’t confess to a crime he hadn’t committed. After that, it was all about smearing him into the ground with weak arguments from innuendo. No smoking gun proof ever that he deceived anyone intentionally. Yet now here, I cannot go five minutes through a political thread without this nonsense cluttering what should be reasoned debate over the difference in substance between a life long conservative and a life long dem lib running as a “probationary conservative.” May God in Heaven have mercy on us all.
Peace,
SR