Yeah, he's a Shmuck
By Byron LaMasters
This is a fascinating read -- it's a very detailed, in-depth look at Jim McGreevey's career. It's interesting reading my initial knee-jerk reaction to McGreevey's coming out. On one hand, I can sympathize with his difficulty in accepting his sexual orientation, but what he did was pretty much inexcusable. His advisors put it best in the Newark Star Ledger article:
The consultants laid it out again.
"An affair, okay, not bad," one adviser told McGreevey. "A gay affair, that's a little bit worse, but okay.
"You hired your lover as the homeland security adviser without credentials, four months after 9/11 -- that's it. You can't withstand that. You'll be impeached. Democrats will join Republicans."
Yup. The American people are pretty forgiving of personal foibles -- look to Bill Clinton, but when it comes to jeopardizing our national security, Americans are a bit less forgiving.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at November 9, 2004 01:52 AM
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That he is politically astute when he wanted to be is made clear by the fact that he managed to get the focus on his gayness instead of on his inappropriate hiring of his lover or on his ties to a very crooked fundraiser.
His truth may be that he is a gay american, but it is also that he is a corrupt politician.
--Michael, now in NJ...
