I am not sure why you consider criticism of Miss O’Donnell is unreasonable because the acts subject to criticism are not indictable crimes.

I am afraid my interpretation of her biography was the work of me own addled brain. Am not channelling the ruling class.

In O’Donnell’s case it may be a lingering bit of the old double standard: where a man who sleeps around is a stud, a woman who does it is a slut. Caesar’s wife must be above reproach – but Mrs. Caesar as a Senate candidate apparently has to be a saint.

That is a good point – but Frank embraces his depravity, while O’Donnnell has sought redemption.

As I ponder a run for office, myself, I consider that – do I give a detailed list of all my sins and all my errors? At times, this seems best – put it all out there before the other side digs it up and hits me with it. On the other hand, if I did, would it really satisfy the critics? Would it, instead, just whet their appetite? Make them wonder that if I’m saying that about myself, what else am I still holding back?

You can’t win for losing on this. O’Donnell is not, to say the least, a person we traditionally think of as a first-tier Senate candidate. But, then again, what have we gotten out of that apple barrel? Ted Kennedy? Arlen Specter? Lindsay Graham? If you really wanted to list the sterling characters we have in the Senate today I bet you get stumped after naming four or five. Are we to continue to limit our search for the next Daniel Webster to our current sources? Maybe it is time we cast our nets wider?

Regardless of the veracity of the complaints against her, have any of them risen to criminal? Has she been convicted of a crime? Investigated for crime? Been associated with criminals? No. Is she of sufficient mental capacity to do the basic job of a Senator? Certainly as much as anyone else in that body. What, then, should we really judge her on? One what she proposes to do – and in that, she’s miles ahead of all but a few.

What you are doing is concentrating on the narrative crafted about her by a Ruling Class which is desperate to keep people like her out of power. Perhaps, if she wins, she proves the most bone headed person ever to be in the Senate (though she’d have to fall very far to reach that dubious distinction). If so, then she gets booted in six year – the world will not suffer irreparable harm for having one more idiot in the Senate. It will, however, suffer grave harm if we keep electing people who are dedicated to perpetuating the current status quo. Perpetuating, that is, the class which has brought our nation to the brink of disaster.