earlier knowledge

[Paul V McNutt]

It becomes public knowledge that Speaker Dennis Hastert is paying off his molestation victims in 2006. Does this help the Democrats in that year's election?

 

[Pangur]

It becomes public knowledge that Speaker Dennis Hastert is paying off his molestation victims in 2006. Does this help the Democrats in that year's election?

The answer has got to surely yes. How could any one side and support a child molester?

 

[Catsmate]

The answer has got to surely yes. How could any one side and support a child molester?

Probably, though numerous Republican politician
a wrote to the court asking for clemency for Hartert.

 

[Paul V McNutt]

Can Harold Ford get elected to the Senate?

 

[Apollo 20]

It becomes public knowledge that Speaker Dennis Hastert is paying off his molestation victims in 2006. Does this help the Democrats in that year's election?

2006 was already toxic for the GOP with a number of scandals occurring against a backdrop of massive unpopularity for W. Throwing a child molestation scandal involving the top Republican in the House and third in line to the Presidency would be like throwing gasoline on a fire. You'd have Hastert resigning and a messy GOP leadership fight in the middle of what was already an ugly environment. So, yes, it would help and it would spill over into other races such as Senate and gubernatorial contests, perhaps throwing the closer ones over to Democrats.

 

[THE OBSERVER]

I wonder if Seleucus could use this idea in the mk.2 version of "Hope, Change and Nutmeg"?