The media and your opponent will rummage through your life and find anything they can, even if made up, twisted or blown way out of proportion, to defeat a candidate if they think it is in their interest to do so. Sane people do not want to subject themselves or their families to this.

No lie. After seeing what happened to Alito during the Supreme Court nominations I took the pains to alert one of my sons, who is a senior in college and soon to embark in law school, to give serious consideration about who he chooses to take into his confidence. To never put in writing or in email ANYTHING that can be twisted or distorted to look bigoted or insensitive to minorities.

These twenty-year olds running around today don’t have an inkling yet of how many skeletons they are putting into their closets.

Remember that college frat party a couple of months ago, where some kids in law school were dressed up in ghetto outfits, and wearing name cards with minority-sounding names? If those kids ten or twenty years from now decide to get into politics, they can hang it up.