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Break out the plastic raingear. Mud's flying from everyone in every direction.

A few thoughts:

It's only politics; not a blood sport.

We're electing a Prez, not a patron saint. Whoever gets elected will at times have done things that violate (in no particular order) good sense, civility, and perhaps the moral beliefs of large numbers of people. It's just part of the human condition. For people to breathlessly shout from the rooftops that "person X did one of these things!" is not particular news. It's a definition of person x as a real person.

We've come a long way in our views on the marriage relationship. In retrospect, JFK (while in some ways a pretty good Prez) doesn't seem to have done well on the marriage front. Once upon a time, being divorced basically precluded a viable major canididate (Nelson Rockefeller) from even being one. Not too much later, it didn.t keep Ronald Reagan from being elected. Seems like most of the electorate has made a decision that what happens in a marriage shouldn't affect a man's/woman's right to be Prez (Bill and Hillary are married to each other). Makes we wonder why all the outrage about McC or Edwards.

We've all heard from a certain group that "Marriage is just a piece of paper." Though personally I disagree, they may be speaking truth as they see it. So natually, I'm sure that none of them are among the group that are calling out McC for his actions.

Not saying that what a candidate has done in his/her life doesn't matter. But maybe we should be using more discretion, introspection, and temperance before we start throwing accustions everywhere.

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