The Whole Virginia Mess Is Very Disappointing.

[MineralMan]

It's a scandal for Democrats. I don't know what's going to end up happening. I don't live there. I'm done with it, though, and will wait to see what the results end up being. I can't do anything about it, but I'm very disappointed by everyone involved. I suppose there will be an investigation and some elected officials will have to resign.

We really need to do better, I think, at selecting our candidates during the Primary races. Maybe we should be looking at folks who weren't frat boys and good old boys. I know that's a traditional path into politics, but the shenanigans that too often surround those young guys seems to be getting in the way.

Here's what I think. Let's look more closely at the women who run for such offices. Maybe they'll be less likely to have "sown their wild oats" too vigorously as young men. Maybe they won't have the baggage of a freewheeling college boy with more testosterone than brains. That's what I'm thinking.

As a party, we don't need this crap. It gets badly in the way of the story we're trying to tell.

Let's elect more women, please, and fewer overgrown boys, shall we?

That's what we've been doing in Minnesota. Both of our US Senators are women, as is my district's House representative. I've campaigned for all of them. No scandals there.