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I believe that politicians have a right to sexual privacy, even hypocritical ones, because I simply don't believe that it is relevant to the day-to-day implementation of their jobs. When they are at work, technically they are supposed to be representing the views of the people that voted for them, not their own. So if a politician pretends to be something he's not to get a bunch of people to vote for him, gets elected and sets about making his constituency happy while getting a little prohibited booty on the side, it doesn't bother me in an intellectual sense. Politics is not a virtuous business peopled by gleaming representations of honesty and moral exactitude, as we all know.
That said, I do admit to taking some pleasure in seeing a loud-mouthed puritan forced to stand up at a press conference and admit that he's been doing the pool guy on the side, but I think I could live without it if folks decided that those things weren't as important as how well he did his job.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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