It makes you wonder, if being the Front Runner is truly worth the grief that comes with it. I mean it just seems some politicians like Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee attract the dirty side of life, when they become popular. Mitt Romney with his dumb ass switching from side to side, that lands in him in hot water, specially when it comes to Illegal Immigration. I mean what kind of smarts does it say about the guy when he opposes Illegal Immigration, Opposes USA Business from HIRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, and then turns out HE HIMSELF IS GUILTY OF IT.

Perhaps a criteria for becoming a candidate should be an Intelligence Test?

Would be nice, because no way would George W. Bush have passed, and it would perhaps also exclude people like Mitt Romney who can’t figure out what side of an issue they are one. Maybe he just flips a coin in the morning?

Now you have the attack on Mike Huckabee, where he supposedly attempted to influence an investigation into his son’s behavior at a Scout Camp. He is supposed to have hung a dog, and some Rights Group wanted the State Police to investigate, and Huckabee, as Governor, tried to influence that request.

Huckabee called Bailey’s account “totally untrue” and described him as a “bitter” exemployee. “I asked him to resign because he had so alienated the entire state police,” he said. “It had nothing to do with my son.” Brenda Turner, Huckabee’s then chief of staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey’s account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing. “I asked him, ‘Is it normal for the state police to … investigate something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?’ ” Turner says. “We wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get.” (Animal cruelty in Arkansas is a misdemeanor, not a felony.) (source)

It is funny and sad at the same time. I mean you hear so much about ‘faith‘ and a politician’s ‘religious convictions‘ these days. The talk is about how ‘they‘ will uphold traditional family values, and ethics. Yet here is a ‘father‘ who can help ‘his son‘ being condemned for it. Now, it isn’t that simple, I agree, but it is confusing. I mean do we want to have a politician who supports the values we do, which is about family. I mean what father wouldn’t try to protect their son from criminal prosecution? What father wouldn’t call in favors for that?

Yet we insist that our Political Leaders somehow abdicate that instinct, that desire to protect. And yet at the same time we want them to hold those very principles sacred, and inviolate. It just doesn’t make sense. Maybe the real issue, is we need to decide what values we truly do want our elected officials to display?