This is really silly. The Democrats, feeling that the General is a shill for the administration, seek to separate the messenger from the message. Instead of questioning the General’s integrity — or leaving it an open question to be determined by his testimony — they go out of their way to assert that the General is the greatest and most honest man who ever lived. Then they try to pick apart his argument.
But if you’re some dummy watching, wouldn’t you be asking yourself, “Wait, if the General is the greatest man who ever lived, why aren’t the Democrats believing him? And if everyone agrees that the General is the greatest man who ever lived — and no one is agreed on the integrity and discernment of anyone else — why shouldn’t we believe the General more than we believe the Democrats? And why don’t the Democrats believe him if they think he’s so great? Are the Democrats too stupid to believe the greatest man who ever lived?
“Or are they lying when they pretend that they think the General is the greatest man who ever lived? And if they are pretending, why are they pretending? Are they sneaky? Is the General so great that the only way to undermine him is to stipulate his greatness? And if they want to undermine the greatest man who ever lived, aren’t they just perverse? And if they’re just twisted and perverse, why should we believe them?”
Democrats need to stop LYING and stop pretending and start making a vigorous case for their point of view — and stop acting like Mr. Spock. A sneaky Mr. Spock. They have the truth on their side, but if they don’t stop lying, no one will ever figure it out. Not everyone can differentiate the merits of each argument, but anyone can spot a phony.
Finally, what’s the reverence about generals anyway? Not counting the Civil War, it’s the safest job in the military, and the whole organization of representative government is to protect people from generals — and from the worship of generals. Enough worshiping generals. Just tell the truth, so that it actually SOUNDS true, too.