Quotable Quote: Who Needs Proof?

The authors admitted they didn’t have proof of the claim, but insist political literature is a matter of opinion, which they have a right to share. “Where there’s smoke there is fire. It’s too obvious. I don’t have proof, but everything on fliers is opinion. That’s the nature of politics. We express our opinion, they express theirs” — Jeff Ward, Kootenai County Reagan Republicans president, in Coeur d’Alene Press re: the accusation in organization campaign literature that Councilman Mike Kennedy got Jim Brannon fired from his Habitat for Humanity job. More here .

Question: Does this mean that everything you want to believe about an opposing political candidate is true simply because you want to believe it so?