This whole crew of super=strategists cannot debate ideas; they have to talk
> about people instead. The message is irrelvant they say; what's relevant is
> the messenger's hair color.
>
When someone has enough bad ideas, and they're all bad in similar or identical ways, debating each one independently as it arises becomes a progressively sillier exercise in futility. (Which is not to say that shag fits this category, but the much-maligned *ad hominem* certainly has its merits in general.)
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."