Norm Coleman's interesting family situation

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Michael:
> Really?  I think adultery is never relevant to a person's 
> political qualifications.  Surely if anything should be a 
> private problem, it's adultery. And surely liberals should be 
> against judging people politically on the basis of their 
> private lives?
> 
> A lot of adultery reflects people in transition between 
> marriages.  Since serial marriages are now the norm, so are 
> periods of adultery.  To condemn it in "most circumstances" 
> seems to me to imply that everyone who dissolves a marriage 
> -- or who keeps one together after almost doing so -- is 
> committing some kind of offense.

Au contraire.  Adultery (aka "cheating" as opposed to *mutually*
consensual relationships with other partners) indicates dishonesty, poor
judgment, or both - which is very relevant for judging a person's
political qualifications.

Wojtek