Could you score 100% on the purity test?

[Doctor_J]

what i mean by this is, if you were running for office, say, and they went waaaaaaay back, could they find you using racial/ethnic slurs? Religious? Sexual orientation?

[Catch22Dem]

1. Nope

And I've given serious consideration to making a run before, but I know I couldn't. Don't get me wrong, I've never done anything really bad, and I've never been arrested or anything like that, but there are two or three things that could be exploited. Other than that, I served 8 years in the Air Force and have more awards and decorations than I have wall space.

[Doctor_J]

2. same here

except for no military service, i have led a life most repubs would envy - one long marriage, two perfect kids, no financial problems, no adultery, etc. But waaay back there (30 years or so) was some fun which at the time seemed good-natured and harmless, but which i now regret. Arrgh.

[Philostopher]

3. Not a freakin' chance, man.

My first hubby was a sound engineer, so I hung out with musicians for ten years. Even if I did very little that would be troublesome for me myself, our friends from those years would mess me up right away. Some of them have been to court on possession charges, that sort of thing. Don't know if any of them ever served time, but we all know that insinuation is important in politics, and they could insinuate the hell out of me.

Oh, yeah -- and I'm agnostic, and frank about it when people try to discuss religion with me, which would automatically knock me out. Nobody wants somebody who's ambivalent about religion in office. Or who reminds people that the founding fathers were, by and large, Deists and who saw no benefit to a representational democracy in having religion play more than a ceremonial part.

[DS1]

4. I was about 6% on the last one I saw

:shrug:

[Nikia]

5. No, now that I think about it

Maybe I shouldn't run for political office in the near future.

[davsand]

6. I was around for the late 70's and early 80's. NO WAY I could run!

At least not on a national level. I am about as "clean" as it gets now in my life--married ten years, with a child, living in a small town. I coach girls' softball and volunteer with the PTO. I don't use drugs nor do I drink much. Never been arrested and had one moving violation over 20 years ago...

Just don't ask me about what I was doing between 77 and 85. Pot was cheap and the only STDs we knew about were cured with either Kwell or a shot of antibiotics. (Well, we DID know about herpes, and I guess that is is incurable...) It was a different time then.

Laura

[hobbit709]

7. Purity Test

Like I told a lawyer friend of mine when he said he was thinking of running for office sometime.
"Not only do we know about the skeletons in your closet, we ARE the skeletons in your closet"