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Ok, FoolThemall, think about it from this perspective. What if you were gay or Muslim, and this person (again, I don't know anything in particular about Craig or his public positions, so this is more to the general question than this particular scenario) is directly leading to the creation of an environment that makes your day to day life more difficult. Maybe you have a lot of anxieties and daily fear associated with being a member of this community, and then it turns out that not even the people who are persecuting you actually really believe what they are saying. They are also part of your community. I can see how that can be empowering within the community. If people set themselves up to an extent as demogogues, and put themselves in the public eye, then I think there's a certain expectation that these sort of details of their lives can come out. I don't see many political figures holding themselves up as idealogues operating in a vacuum, but seems that most of them want to be seen as typical good old Americans, one of the people, living and working for the American Dream. If the politician were to adopt a "Do as I say, not as I Do" position in developing their public personas, then sure - they're just setting policy as strategic political philosophers, and thus the details of their actual lives are incidental. I don't think that they position themselves this way, and thus I can understand how directly attacking their credibility is germane to their political position. As I see it, its a little different than the regular old guy at the end of the street who is hiding part of his identity.

Now, in the particulars of this case, from what I can gather the activist is using the old "anonymous sources" technique, and I think that's just crap. If you're going to do this sort of thing, I think you have come with it. Otherwise, it looks like useless horseshit political maneuvering.

And Elph, here's some piggy style coming right at you...

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