Richard Painter on Al Franken: We need more facts but much of this fits an old GOP playbook

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34. This has annoyed me for a long time. Why can't WE fight dirty?

That's the way the game is played. That's how the bad guys win. They cheat like hell, at the state level and nationally, and they win. And they get away with it. And nothing is done. And nobody pays the price except for all of America under their thumb with their lousy ideas, their 6th century collective mindset, their shitty Reverse-Robin Hood policies of selfishness, short-sightedness, and abject cruelty, and their cockeyed totally out-to-lunch "alternative facts".

I want us to have our own Roger Stone and our own kkkarl rove and our own Lee Atwater and our own Frank Luntz and our own dirty tricksters. I want us to do some rat-fucking on the bad guys.

I'm sick of taking the high road. In THIS day and age, the high road leads you straight over a cliff.