Dem Senator: Negotiating with Republicans "Almost" like Negotiating with "Terrorists"

Negotiating with Republicans Almost like Negotiating with Terrorists That would be, not that it matters, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) speaking.  Like you, I've spent years trying to decide whether this type of outrageously hypocritical statement made by Liberals - are cynically designed for effect?  represent raw ideological beliefs?   Consider: Menendez's statements might fulfill Alinsky  Rule 2 : Never go outside the experience of your people.  The result is confusion, fear, and retreat. All of us have friends and relatives whose head would explode if someone like Menendez told the truth about anything, so there's that argument for contrivance.  On the other hand, even the dullest Democrats (Patty Murray, Barbara Boxer, et al.) are too quick to utter what we think of as "The Big Lie," which sometimes leads me to think they really believe their own s*it.  “ “Do you allow yourself to be held hostage and get something done for the sake of getting something done, when in fact it might be perverse in its ultimate results? It’s almost like the question of do you negotiate with terrorists.” Sen. Robert Menendez ” That quote by Menendez, I think, is a good example of  Boomerang Self Personification (BSP).  Always accuse others of that which you're already doing; it incorporates both  possibilities. Does it really matter though?  When you're dealing with Communists, the Taliban, or Party Line Democrats it's kill or be killed (hyperbolic where necessary).  Bottom line, I'm introducing a new topic, "They may actually believe this s*it!"