And should any candidate win by twisting the rules, he will forever regret it.
Advertisers merrily twist the rules, using a tiny font for the translation, or inventing logos in indigestible franglais.
Someone, in their bedroom, will be twisting the rules, experimenting with the formula, to create something fresh.
The McQuaid bat is straight when this is put to him: "That is a fallacy being put out there by Brian and his people, to say that I'm twisting the rules or getting the rules twisted.
Yet most French reporting of these two cases, egged on by Mr Estrosi, has drawn a caricature of wicked bosses twisting the rules to exploit workers.
The board has rejected Mr. Cahn's arguments, responding in a letter that the violations represented "an unprecedented event in which a candidate so willingly chose to bend and twist the rules and regulations to gain an unfair advantage".
In 1996 communists almost won the presidential elections; by twisting the rules, he saved himself and his country.Civil war and hunger were averted, but Mr Yeltsin's compromises allowed authoritarianism to revive.
Before he recanted, his hand forced by a cascade of appointees who "forgot" to pay taxes, his reasoning was creeping perilously close to that of the outgoing leaders he denounced in his Inaugural Address: that elitist mentality of "we know best," we know we're doing the "right" thing for the country, so we can twist the rules.
Nowadays, the Elite seems to have found new ways to twist the rules of the game in its favour, yet again; aided in that by at least two institutional failures of democratic institutions.
Misusing customer support includes reporting innocent people, supplying or fishing out false information, and twisting the rules towards your favor.
