(September 13, 2013 at 7:03 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: I bet something like this would have ruined an Amercian or UK representatives political career.
Planted firmly in a pile of manure, American politicians are still expected to smell of roses. It's unrealistic and a sick consequence of our Puritanical heritage. In the end, we seem to admire not those who are honest about their indiscretions, but those who can convincingly fool others that they never happened.
The problem then is when any skeletons in the closet become exposed, regardless of size or number, then suddenly that politician is a hypocrite, a liar. It's a vicious, damaging circle.
So yeah...this kind of publicity would likely ruin a candidate here.
