I doubt that soccer moms care about Sandy Berger.
Sandy Berger? No. But they can be made to care that someone is being "mean" to "that man" ... The who or the why need have nothing to do with it.
Move - countermove. Once the politics gets into it, it'll be just like watching the sequence from "O, Brother Where Art Thou":
Hell's bells, Mr. Lunn, if we don't the g*d* competition will!Oh mercy, yes. You gotta beat that competition.