John...what if you decided to run for office (any one)....and a former student, or any number of other possibilities, decided to charge you had groped them in 1976. And the charge is aided and abetted by your local home town newspaper. 1 week before your election.
Hmm, Karen, if I decided to run for public office I think my wife would take drastic measures before things got that far. (g)
But I see the scenario that bothers you. Two comments. In Arnold's case, the groping charges have been around for a bit and were, evidently, featured in some national magazines in some recent issues. And Arnold admitted to some of it as well. So the Arnold scenario is not one, unverified, charge from 76. Second, now that those charges are in the public domain in this public a way, someone will decide to do something, legally, about them. Too much fifteen minute fame stuff available. Whether anything comes of it is another matter. Well, now then there is a third comment that comes to mind and that's the last minute character of the charges. I don't like that, nor should any of us. But that's the character of our much lamented political system at the moment. I heard Ron Brownstein argue on Monday, I think, that the LATimes did this all by the book. Brownstein has a great deal of credibility with me.
But my overall point about the CA situation is that it's likely to get worse before it gets better. And that would have been the case, in a very different way, most likely had the recall been defeated. But who knows? |
