Originally Posted By: nassim
For fucks sake that is one of the oldest tricks in the book. LBJ once told a campaign manager to accuse a political opponent of having sexual relations with a shetland pony.

The flunky turned white as a sheet and said, "But sir, that's not true."

LBJ just smiled and said, "Yup. But I'd love to see the fucker deny it."


It was actually the guy's barnyard sow and the story's apocryphal. Never stopped me from retelling it, though. The point of the story, though, was that Lyndon was losing before spreading that story and manged to just squeak out a win after.