Do you want to run for an office that will be heavily contested in the general election? Begin considering your decision with the Bible.Really.Specifically, the Gospel of Luke, chapter 8, verse 17: "For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light." (The New King James Version.)Roman Catholics have long been urged to reflect often on "the four last things": death, judgment, heaven and hell.
The "judgment" comes along with the consideration of a man’s or woman’s entire life.The fundamental premise about the nature of God is that God knows all things — that he is omniscient (as well as omnipresent and omnipotent).PLATNER DROPS OUT OF CRUCIAL SENATE RACE AFTER BOMBSHELL RAPE ALLEGATION TORPEDOES CAMPAIGNThat has not always been the case with political media.
Sometimes the national and even local press were complicit in hiding facts known to some but not widely shared.President John F.
Kennedy’s escapades were well known to many in the Beltway’s elite media and perhaps in Massachusetts, but those who knew and liked or even loved him were not about to tell.That is perhaps the most famous example of media complicity in burying scandals, but it’s a bipartisan tradition to not launder some dirty garments in public.Now more than ever, every candidate must be warned again and again that Luke 8:17 is very much true and indeed inevitable for every candidate in every race in which any opponent has the means to dig deep. That era is over.
President Obama is said to have believed "if you can win, you should" as an explanation for playing hardball in politics.Lots of Republicans live by the same rule.
Politics is far, far from actual war or even life-and-death struggles, but as Finley Peter Dunne’s famed creation Mr.Dooley put it, "politics ain’t beanbag" either.
It’s a rough-and-tumble game, and lots of lives get upended, if not even more seriously wrecked, when national attention turns to the ba...