From: bruce_olin@hotmail.com   
      
   "Vader"  wrote in message   
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   > "Leonard Bruce Olin"  wrote in message   
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   > > Remember, folks, the primaries aren't over yet.   
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   > Dude, you're pointing to a Sun article. Since when did they become legit   
   > news?   
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   > Matt Drudges article has already proven to be phoney. Let it die already.   
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   > No major news outlet is covering this.   
      
   Actually, I'm pointing to what looks like a high school yearbook picture of   
   a young girl, actually a couple of years younger than my own daughters.  It   
   may be the Sun, but a picture is a picture.  I don't doubt that the photo   
   is, in fact, Alex Polier.  Looks like a nice kid and, whatever the truth in   
   this rumor, her reputation has been trashed.  I went googling for her   
   picture because I figured she was going to be a "knockout".  What I found   
   was someone who looked more like one of my own daughters.  I read a little   
   of a couple of her old AP articles and thought she showed some journalistic   
   talent.   
      
   Look, I have no doubt that the Bush crowd can and will lie to discredit any   
   candidate the Democrats put forward, but if there is some REAL issue that   
   they can seize on, they will jump on it.  This may or may not be such an   
   issue.  I just don't think we ought the be playing the same denial games   
   that we've been watching the right-wingers engage in over Bush's National   
   Guard service and other lies he's been caught in.  If we are going to play   
   "gotcha", and we are, we had better have a bulletproof candidate.  I've   
   known many good men who pursued extramarital affairs.  If statistics are to   
   be believed, 45% of the male population, according to CNN.  I would bet my   
   last buck that the numbers are significantly higher for the wealthy and   
   powerful.  And, as Arnold the Barbarian once said, "Where there is smoke,   
   there is fire."   
      
   My point is that it would be best to look in to this BEFORE the primary   
   season is over.  Turn the press loose.  If this turns out to be true, and my   
   intuition says that it probably is, then we have to ask if it is a single   
   incident or part of a pattern of behavior.  If it is true but an isolated   
   instance, Kerry needs to "fess up" and get it out of the way.  If it is part   
   of a pattern, we've got a problem on our hands that can only be solved by   
   advancing a different candidate.   
      
   Bush may have an advantage in the adultery department.  I can personally   
   testify that any middle aged man who goes to bed at 10:00 every night isn't   
   getting any extra nookie.  There is a lot we can do with his sordid past,   
   but I think most of us believe that George has probably gotten very little   
   "action" lately, even on the home front.  We've seen how wild the right can   
   go when they've gotten their teeth into a sex scandal, so lets try not to   
   hand them one.   
      
   Bruce Olin   
      
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