Long term, it has to be a bad strategy.

Come to think of it, that's not a bad strategy for all Americans.

Blaming the incident on the computer would have been the worst strategy of all.

But in many ways, he was more a victim of outside forces than of a bad strategy.

"But that doesn't mean it's a bad strategy," he said in an interview.

It's not a bad strategy for dealing with the chill of winter.

Most people would rather be right, but that's bad strategy.

"I can't think of a worse, more dumb strategy than going after people based on whether they were a House manager or not," he said.

"It is not a bad strategy for a guy who just came in."

Ironically, it's also a bad strategy to not sneak around but appear to be.