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Originally Posted by Cool Hand
Spinning remains unseemly and unprincipled to me, despite its practical utility or even arguable necessity. From a principled perspective I don't approve of the spinning, but I recognize the practical utility of doing it to remain in office.
I suppose I'm tacitly and weakly approving of a form of political pragmatism, even though it feels icky, and I'm not sure I would do it if I held office.
Does that make sense?
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That's not a bad
post hoc rationalization.
Honestly that makes a lot of sense to me, and it's along the lines of what I meant early in this thread when I said if Bush Co. is willing to lie, cheat and steal to win this election then I accept the fact that Kerry Co. will have to respond in kind or take the moral highground to campaign failure.
And to be clear, by "lie, cheat and steal" I was making a hyperbolic reference to spinning campaign rhetoric not speaking about the last election or in fact anything specific at all. Like you I feel icky endorsing (even tacitly and weakly) dishonesty, but also like you I'm fairly sure there's no realistic way around it. At least none that I'm capable of figuring out.