How to destroy a chameleon

Powerline muses on the exhausting life of someone who tries to curry favor by matching a constantly shifting milieu.

The thing about chameleons is that they mostly work only against a solid background. Franklin Roosevelt loved the joke about how he once placed a pet chameleon against a plaid background: “The chameleon died.” Trump is the ideal plaid background against which to place Biden, which is why Democrats are spinning so furiously to get Biden out of debating Trump.

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  1. Reminds me of a joke I heard in the 1980s - but was probably old by then - of an exasperated reporter who hadn't been able to get a straight answer from a politician. Thinking he'd throw a softball question, he asked "What's your favorite color?" The politician looked stricken, but finally blurted out, "Plaid!"

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