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OK let me get this right if you are unfairly smeared by someone so that your “public perception” is tainted using some unknown standard so that it “appears” ……..
I think we need to look at facts...
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No disagreement there, but since when have "facts" mattered to anyone? And it's something that will never change.
and what is real and forget about perceived “perception” and “appearances”.
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Public perception is important in choosing whom state's your case. Doesn't matter if that perception is flawed, inaccurate or misrepresented. The public doesn't care; once you're fucked you're fucked as far as they're concerned. Doesn't make it right or fair, but that's the reality of it.
This is the usually logic and double standard that is applied to conservatives. Conservatives have to resign because of the “appearance of impropriety” (for example John Tower and Clarence Thomas) and Democrats get away with murder (for example Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy).
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True; both Clinton and Kennedy aren't the best examples for the left to trot out for sound bytes. But, at least Clinton and Kennedy are more current (whom under the age 30 remembers Ollie North?) and their status goes more beyond their 15 minutes of fame or notoriety just because they happened to be at the right or wrong place at the right or wrong time. My opinion of Ollie is kind of split; he did what he thought was best for the country and took the fall for it, yet he also strikes me as the kind of person that would blindly follow orders without question or hesitation.
Fuhrman OTOH is an ass. His actions were a big reason for OJ's getting off. I have little doubt that OJ is guilty, just as I have little doubt that Fuhrman "planted" the glove at OJ's house.
This is the United States; you just don't do that kind of thing to make a case stick.
Anyhow, what I was trying to get at in my original post was that wouldn't it better serve gun owners (Republican) interests if the person speaking was less controversial? A person that the Liberals can't point at and dismiss as bing tainted?