Instapundit and Randy Barnett stumble across something we discussed months ago here- the new Democrat tactic is to claim that any mistake is a lie.
I guess when you are desperate, you will just say anything.
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Brandon
Some of it is desperation. But I think that a lot of them consider it vengence for the Clinton years.
David Perron
I’m sure this will swiftly be countered with the idea that the new Republican tactic is to claim any lie is a mistake. Probably already has in the Atriette chorus (thanks for that label, John. I really, really enjoyed it) or over at Hesiod[sic].
Dean
And moral equivalency lives on.
With this tactic:
EITHER Dubya is as bad as Bubba (they both lied);
OR Bubba is not nearly as bad as Dubya, since they both made mistakes of fact.
And, remember, Bubba ONLY made mistakes about sex, while Dubya’s lying about national security. Rehabilitation AND political coup-counting in one fell swoop!
HH
Bubba ONLY lied under oath about something he clearly, no-doubt-about-it KNEW was true, in regards to a law he himself passed, in order to deny an American citizen a fair day in court.
Bush may have said something inaccurate that, thus far, no one has offered a sliver of evidence he knew was inaccurate, and last I checked, the oath is not administered before the SOTU. (Should we now comb Clinton’s SOTU speeches for statements he knew to be inaccurate since this comparison has been started?) And it was around 1% of the case he made in the SOTU about Iraq… and it wasn’t included in his Secretary of State’s more important speech on Iraq… and this information is still being held up as accurate by the British government, which is where Bush said he got it in the first place.
mj
Dean,
I can’t tell if your post is sarcastic or not. It certainly starts out that way, mocking moral equivalency while engaging in it. But then you appear to move on to the standard “it was only about sex” excuse.
Maybe Bill Clinton didn’t know he received a blowjob?
Dean
Sorry, mj, I should’ve been clearer, I was being sarcastic.
I believe that the effort to equate mistakes with lies is related to a separate effort to rehabilitate Bubba. If mistakes=lies, the Left will then try to create the false dichotomy of either everybody is mistaken, or else Dubya lied. And, they will claim, even IF Bubba lied, it was “only” about sex.
The thing is to hold the Left’s feet to the fire. The proper comparison will be the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, and whether Bubba “lied” in attacking it, or was mistaken.
Hope that clears things up?