If you haven't figured that out yet, you're on the wrong Forum.
Democrats and Liberals will lie and steal for their potential Candidates, Republicans and Conservatives will do the dirty work for their enemies and then claim their own Candidates weren't worthy. When you play defense, you lose.
I guess I have been on the wrong forum for 10 years now. /s
I also guess in your one dimensional world all politicans have the same degree of "gaffe proneness"