I get very suspicious of people who claim to be conservatives, yet who think like leftists: eschewing logic, lying “for the greater good”, etc.
Quite. My concern is more that it is counter-productive.
The most idiotic attorney in the world knows that if he makes 10 assertions in court, and three are disproven, he greatly weakens his case over what it would have been had he limited his assertions to the 7 that were actually true.