One thing – possibly the only thing – I’ve learned from conservatives is how to deflect a controversy.
It’s fun and easy. I recommend trying it at home. Every time one of those Bush- (and don’t forget Cheney- ) hating libs takes a swipe at our President or Vice President, repeat the mantra, “What about Clinton?”
See? It quickly diverts attention from the issue at hand. The problem is it can work both ways. To wit: from now on, every time a letter to the State Journal-Register levels a charge against columnist Ted Rall, regardless of whether it calls for his dismissal from the editorial page, I’m going to reply, “What about Ann Coulter?” Here’s a woman who, among countless declarations begging the question is it too late to reverse her state of delirium, believes in bombing other countries as a first response to their refusal to conform to American edicts, then converting the survivors to her flavor of Christianity. Which, I dare say, is irrefutably more incendiary than anything Rall has advocated or opined.
Fire Rall? Well, what about Coulter? Do you really want to point out that I changed the subject lest I remind you that two can play your game?
Returning to Clinton, what about him? He paid dearly for his mistakes, whether self-inflicted or not, legally in addition to his permanently damaged reputation. Seems to me it’s about time the current administration became accountable for its many transgressions.