Except, Kevin, that he did it to 'prove' that if you posture & shout & distract, you CAN get away with almost anything when tossing rhetoric about. He did it to demonstrate that winning WAS the point and truth was secondary.

(wow...I just remembered his name! 40 years ago... Gary Jackson. Nice, idealistic Young Democrat with excessive zeal...☺)

That was in many ways a bad example, because even Gary would not have tried THAT during a serious debate where concerned folks were listening. Much easier to slip a 'straw man' or a 'guilt by association' in between a couple of obvious, but not necessarily relevant, truths.