Rumor Mill

So, am I supposed to believe that there is a major scandal lurking among the Presidential candidates?

Sorry, but I'm not buying it. There are plenty of scandals out there - but most of them have to do with the sorry positions taken by many of the candidates on both sides of any given issue (or candidates trying to have both sides of the issue).

Consider Clinton's debate debacle over her waffling on the Spitzer illegal alien drivers license plan. What a mess, and that position and inability to sell it convincingly should be a scandal in its own right.

Or, perhaps the real scandal is how her campaign has relied on bundlers of the illegal persuasion (Hsunami anyone?). Yet, the media hasn't exactly been pressing those issues very much.

I'm going to call the latest media navel gazing and subsequent blog punditry nothing but rumormongering in the face of a significant lack of news or movement in getting rid of lesser candidates from both parties. Someone thinks that there's got to be a way to shake up the campaigns, and this might be a way to do it.

I don't think the fact that Bill's a womanizer is going to change anyone's opinion of him - or Hillary for that matter, so all the talk (and it is just talk at this point) doesn't change my opinion of the Clintons one bit. Nor does the possibility that Hillary is bisexual or lesbian. Jammie thinks that she'd be toast if it's found that she lied about this. I don't think so - she's lied about so many other more consequential issues that this private matter isn't going to do it.

I could be wrong about that, but right now all this talk about her private life is only so much conjecture and nothing hard and fast.

She can do whatever she wants behind closed doors. That isn't an issue for me. It's her policy positions that are truly worrisome. They are nothing but repugnant and abhorrent - especially in light of her support (after waffling in the debate) of the Spitzer illegal alien plan. She's pushing a socialized health care plan that will result in higher taxes, a lower quality of health care, and lower levels of innovation since her plan will reduce the marketplace incentives spurring development. Her position on national defense continues to flip flop depending on her audience - her support among Democrats depends on how far to the Left they are - and the far left is anti-war.

I don't trust her on key decisions, and the campaign financing mess - continuing to surround herself with shady characters doesn't help either.

UPDATE:
Patterico doesn't buy the latest rumors either.