[Owen]

Apparently this guy is a famous Freeper. I have never heard of him, but that does not matter.

I would like to direct attention to an obscure portion of his text -- the issue that the FR rockstar favorites might not survive the vetting process.

Recall that there are many ways to fail a USSC vetting that might not appear in the screen for a lower office:

I'll name a few off the top of my head, though all these did not appear for USSC candidates.

1) Nanny tax issues. Anyone who ever paid a maid or even biweekly housekeeper with cash could run afoul of this. It would be a killer.

2) Smoked pot as a youngster. Another killer.

3) A felon in the family. Depends on how remote, of course, but any leniency shown by the judge of that family member's case would be trumpeted -- and might very well evolve into another killer.

You can add to this list as you will, but I would like folks to consider one fundamental reality in this:

Bush can't, in any decency as a human being, tell you this happened. The rockstar in question would be exposed and devastated. Explaining things to some political junkies doesn't qualify as sufficient justification to ruin someone's life.

[Pukin Dog]

Thank you for enforcing that point. Maybe I should have made it a bit stronger myself?

[Torie]

Number 2 is a plus. Anyone who didn't smoke dope in my generation when young was well, unusual. Judges and lawyers don't do illegal nannies unless they are terminally stupid, and having felons in the family tree, is just so medieval as a disqualifier, as a consanquinuity stain, unless one was a co conspirator.

The "leak" with nothing more, that all the other candidates would have been destroyed when all was revealed, is well, simply reckless, and has that defamatory odor to it.