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Family is fair game when the application of the politician's professed policies landed their family members in a predicament. A politician who advocated Abstinence only education yet has a pregnant teenage daughter, to pick a random example, has opened herself up to totally justified criticism. In cases like that the family member's troubles call into question the politician's judgment and sincerity.
Or to pick another one, a politician who crusades against drunk driving, but whose wife is arrested driving drunk after blowing, say, a 1.2, should expect to be crucified, because he's a hypocrite if her helps get her off, a heartless bastard if he doesn't, and pandering if he packs her off to rehab.
Politicians with handicapped children who try to cut funds to handicapped children should expect their children to be discussed.
Politicians who have adopted children not o their race should be able to call those kids off limits, unless they hire the same advisers who dragged their child into the last election to defeat the candidate with a race baiting push poll.
Homophobe politicians' homosexual children are never off limits.
Gun crusaders on either side who have relatives involved in gun crimes or on the receiving end of gun violence should expect them to be dragged out for cross examination.
The less successful family members of those who tout the success of their family members are fair game.
In short, the family is off limits unless the politician brings them into it. They all do sooner or later.
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