If you spend your entire political life digging for filth on the enemy you become filthy. The price you pay for playing with dirt. Fitting?

It depends.  If you are looking for filth, like The Enquirer?  Or are you looking to unleash the truth?

If you just want to get ahead by bashing others, you are worse than filth.

If you want to expose filth at any cost, you have courage and gumption.

If you are pointing the finger, you'd better have integrity and a clean slate to back you up, or your enemies will devour you.

And we're all as happy as dead pigs in a mud wallow because of it.