How to Become a Politician, Maybe Even President

Don't do anything stupid that can be brought up later.

This of course, means that someone would have to decide at the age of 5 that they want to become President of the United States or a senator. The next step is to never do anything on line, on facebook, twitter, or whatever next generation of social media turns out to be. Don't have your picture taken with a beer. Don't take a picture of your private parts and send them to anyone. Don't send a sexy message via text.

I may be going to extremes here, but in light of the latest congressional sex scandal, (one that actually included no sex.) it just goes to show that sometimes intelligent people do really stupid things. All these electronic gadgets and footprints can come back to haunt a person.

I think the voter expectation that a candidate for anything be pure and chaste is unrealistic. This is what we would like. It's not what we get. Politicians are human. And like humans, you can start out with the best intentions, but the road to Hell is paved with Lobbyists. I don't think there isn't a congressman who hasn't dealt with some lobbyist at some time.

As far as sex scandals go, when it happens in an average person's life that sucks. You hurt your spouse, the kids, and may get a divorce. But when you are a politician and you get caught with a wide stance or banging prostitutes, it becomes a big deal. You get dragged thru the mud by the press. The left, the right, and the CNN's of the world love a scandal. But so do we all. "Look at him! He got caught." It makes us feel superior.

I find lobbyists buying our government for big corporations much more offensive than any sex scandal that is something consensual among adults. Sex is funny. It makes humans do stupid things. It's dangerous and sexy and even more so when you think you are getting away with something. This is a digital sex scandal. Bill Clinton got a blow job. Anthony Weiner rubbed one out while talking dirty to a girl or texting/typing with one hand. Should he be kicked out of office? I don't know. Can he do his job for the people of New York or is he going to be dealing with this scandal that his crazy behavior created?

He had to know it was wrong. But it was exciting and that clouded his thoughts... The chances of it coming to light were almost 100% since no secret can be kept in today's world. So now he pays the price for being stupid and human.

The small solace I get from all this, like most sex scandals involving the democratic party, it involved women. Republicans look so bad when all their sex scandals involve men and boys since they run on conservative anti gay platforms.