Informed Consent?

By Jonathan Dobrer on August 31, 2008 4:45 PM | | Comments (0) |

No one who enters political life is ever ready for what happens. No one can imagine the prying, the distortions, the lies. Even in local politics--from small district school boards to city councils, the world plays rough with our families and our lives.

When you enter into political life at the national level--and as a relative neophyte, as Sarah Palin did--you cannot, literally cannot, imagine what is going to happen to you. There is no conceivable knowledgeable waiver or informed consent you can give.

What is about to happen to Sarah Palin and her daughter is terrible, and while I have no political common cause with her and it is easy to say that she should have known better, she couldn't have. Without judging her, this is part of what keeps good people from running for office.

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