If they had confidence in the salability of their ideas, would they need to play word games, resort to euphemisms, revise history, distort facts and repeat patently false charges?
This also applies to some groups on the far right also. Idiotic lies like "Bush is no different than Clinton, no difference whatsoever..."
And much of the discourse about the Patriot Act.
And the way the far right attacked Miers. I'm glad Miers was withdrawn, and replaced with Alito, but the mothods some on the "right" used to attack her were disguisting.
Honesty and integrity has long been lacking from the extreme edges of political discourse.
However it seems to be getting more rare in general instead of just on the fringes.