re: #264 Aceofwhat?

Oh, so Edwards’ manipulation of an aide to claim paternity and payments made with campaign funds were private affairs. Got it.

(here’s a napkin…you have a piece of partisan on your chin)

I suspect that if we had consensus that private stuff stayed private, you wouldn’t see public officials doing stupid things like misusing aides, offering jobs to cuckolds, lying about their whereabouts on the Appalachian Trail and all the rest just to keep the affair under wraps. As they say, it’s always the coverup that gets you.

But a fair way to look at this is that how you (not YOU, but a hypothetical politician) behave when you get caught is the truest test of character. So maybe the gotcha game has some redeeming value. But I wonder how many statesmen from our history would have gotten snagged if we behaved this way years ago.