Political hacks can't hack it

You might be a political hack if you can't justify something "your guy" has done without trying to change the topic to what someone else did.

It's something all political hacks do when "their" politician is being criticized, they have to try to drag up what a politician from another party did when thy had that office in the pst. 

Somehow, that justifies whatever it is that their guy is doing now. 

Nope, it doesn't.  See, as a culture, we teach our children that wrong is wrong regardless of who or how many are doing it.  Just because more than one person has done something, that doesn't make it right, it only makes it popular.

When politicians are in office, we need to judge them based on what they have done against what that elected office is supposed to do, not based on what a previous holder of that office did.


This is another area of where political parties serve to obfuscate issues and polarize discussion.  They don't want to have their representative judged based on the expectations that exist in the "job description".  instead, they would rather be compared to another person who had the same job so they can make false comparisons.

When you are elected to office, at that point in time, we shouldn't care who was the previous office holder, their time is done and they should have been dealt with during their time.

Now it's your time in office and we will judge you based on what you are supposed to be doing rather than how someone else did or didn't do it.

Party hacks don't want that though.  They have an obligation to ignore facts, ignore truth and keep their guy in office, whether he's doing a good job or not.  It's about obtaining and retaining power, nothing more.

People need to think for themselves, not spew talking points handed down for them.  They need to base their judgements on officeholders based on what that officeholder is doing during their time in office, not based on how the last officeholder did.