So What?

Back in 1990, the Independent Republican Party of Minnesota (the name change at the time was part of the fallout from Nixon's big boo-boo) had nominated a candidate for governor who was a solid conservative and not a country-club drone or a born-again bible-thumping ninny. Unfortunately, three weeks or so before the election, one of the local daily socialist rags published a story that alledged that the candidate had molested a twelve year-old in a swimming pool about a decade earlier.

The original candidate dropped out and the sitting state auditor stood for election in his place and barely won. (He was re-elected in '94, but that's another story.)

But now revelations about a Democratic candidate three months before the election sparked a round of moaning and groaning amongst his supporters:

"They hired a goddamn private investigator to dig up trash!" charged a top Kerry adviser traveling with the senator late Tuesday. "This is pay for play, and the dirtiest of all dirty tricks ever played on a candidate for the presidency. How low can they go?"

Boo. [Expletive]. Hoo.

Hey, at least Lieutenant Kerry didn't molest any little Vietnamese girls.

Right?