You'll get no disagreement from me on that.

And yet...

I bought the roses, because the cost of the roses was far, far less than what it would have cost to fight whatever he might have dredged up, whether true or not. The power of the position is that it doesn't have to be true to be quite costly, wether it's direct costs in the fight (attorney, travel, time off, etc), or the secondary, long term damage that comes from ever having been i the fight in the first place. The job you don't get can opportunity cost millions.