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HeiressofBickworth

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22. reminds me of this quote:

Reply to BlueJazz (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 26, 2015, 04:03 PM

Nov 2015

John Randolph, the eccentric Virginia aristocrat, invented this phrase in the 1820's and used it against at least two of his Congressional colleagues. Henry Clay, he complained, was so brilliant, so capable and yet so corrupt that, ''like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, he both shines and stinks.''

It was my mother's favorite description of lawyers she had dealt with in her life. It can also be applied to Ted Cruz.

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reminds me of this quote: HeiressofBickworth Nov 2015 #22

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