Jack Shafer: “Maybe it won’t happen this campaign, but I can see the day that a
complete documentation on every politician of note, produced on the Web
in Wikipedia fashion, would make opposition research redundant. When
that day comes, we’ll finally be able to see our candidates in full and
see that nearly every one of them has flip-flopped; made a fortune from
either honest graft or
dishonest graft; mistreated, divorced, or cheated on a spouse; taken
drugs; lied; cheated; violated taboos; told dirty, racist, or otherwise
tasteless jokes; stretched the fabric of the campaign finance laws;
associated with bad people; engaged in resume inflation; taken dubious
payments; or otherwise transgressed — just like you.”
Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire