UKking

Do you believe that in politics, families are off limit?

Or is a family a reflection of the candidate?


Historically (at least as far as I've ever seen), family has never been off-limits to politics.... Mostly because politics does not have immutable rules or ethics. Obama's recent assertion that it does is admirable, if not realistic. If our politicians want to act like family is off-limits for the moment, I'm just fine with that. I'd 100% support we act like that for as long as we can. Even if the lines drawn are rather arbitrary. At least it's something.

Just don't be surprised when family matters eventually does become an issue. Someone will someday find something somewhere and spin it in such a way that we become convinced that a family matter is a critical decision point.

Personally, I'm a tad jaded and pragmatic when it comes to candidates. If we had a candidate that was 100% shithead, but would rock our political socks off, working political miracles, I'd have a hard time not voting for him. I guess I just don't see politicians as role models, maybe that's the difference. Family reflects on a person, I guess I just don't care as much about the person anymore.

Case and point: I'm sure George W Bush is a really neat guy, and we all know how that turned out...