Reply #47: because credibility matters

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It is the willingness of this administration to shade, bend, and ultimately break the truth, to operate under a cloak of secrecy, to exagerrate and misrepresent, that we are fighting against. In order to persuade those who don't already realize this, we need to maintain our own credibility. So when some DUers suddenly go Fristian, offering their certain diagnoses and prognoses on Whittington's condition based on god knows what, or who state that Cheney was drunk, or was cheating on his wife, or that the shooting never happened (yes there was at least one such post), or that Cheney shot Whittington intentionally....well, that sends the message that we are no more credible than the other side. And yes, that message does get out.

Its not about being an apologist for Cheney, its about not making statements that blur the distinction between us and the other side.

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