A Sex Tape?
June 30, 2009 - by
It’s been a rough couple of elections for Republicans, so I can understand how happy today’s news is making Carter (see his blog below).
But how can you blame him?
Just when you thought the John Edwards affair could not sink lower, here comes Andrew Young.
Just when you thought Mark Sanford had cornered the market on lovesick middle-aged male crises, here comes news there may be a sex tape. Buried in the last graf of the N&O’s front page story.
Talk about leaving readers hanging.
It all is just a reminder that the best book ever written about politics remains Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men. From the stink of the diaper to the stench of the shroud, there is always something.
I wish I could just dismiss it all as tawdry twaddle.
But I have a feeling that the still-running Edwards saga – now competing for headlines with the continuing Mike and Mary Easley saga – is bad news for North Carolina Democrats.
I remember in 2006 and 2008 how Republicans insisted that the string of scandals, sexual and otherwise, involving various GOP officials around the country should have nothing to do with how people voters on the issues of the hour.
But it did anyway.
Is it possible that, in 2010, the main thing voters may have on their minds is how the two former stars of the North Carolina Democratic Party went so far wrong?
Surely that wouldn’t be fair to all the honest, hard-working Democrats laboring to balance budgets and do good things in the legislature and Congress, would it?
But, as that great Democrat John Kennedy said, life isn’t fair.
Posted in General, National Democrats
A Sex Tape?
June 30, 2009/
It’s been a rough couple of elections for Republicans, so I can understand how happy today’s news is making Carter (see his blog below).
But how can you blame him?
Just when you thought the John Edwards affair could not sink lower, here comes Andrew Young.
Just when you thought Mark Sanford had cornered the market on lovesick middle-aged male crises, here comes news there may be a sex tape. Buried in the last graf of the N&O’s front page story.
Talk about leaving readers hanging.
It all is just a reminder that the best book ever written about politics remains Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men. From the stink of the diaper to the stench of the shroud, there is always something.
I wish I could just dismiss it all as tawdry twaddle.
But I have a feeling that the still-running Edwards saga – now competing for headlines with the continuing Mike and Mary Easley saga – is bad news for North Carolina Democrats.
I remember in 2006 and 2008 how Republicans insisted that the string of scandals, sexual and otherwise, involving various GOP officials around the country should have nothing to do with how people voters on the issues of the hour.
But it did anyway.
Is it possible that, in 2010, the main thing voters may have on their minds is how the two former stars of the North Carolina Democratic Party went so far wrong?
Surely that wouldn’t be fair to all the honest, hard-working Democrats laboring to balance budgets and do good things in the legislature and Congress, would it?
But, as that great Democrat John Kennedy said, life isn’t fair.
Posted in General, National Democrats