they have a point ...

[ramtops]

from a letter in today's Times

"Sir, Alcoholics, like other addicts, are dishonest, manipulative and scheming. Are these not the exact qualities required to be a successful party leader these days?"

[edit]and

"Sir, Leading the Liberal Democrats as a reforming alcoholic should be no problem. After all, we have a reformed one running the world’s only superpower."

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[spride.livejournal.com]

thing is, Bush was only able to get away with it because he had the special Get Out Of Jail Jeezus Card to play. That won't play here because the majority of us, quite rightly, regard vehment espousal of a very simplistic form of christianity as a coded admission of mental illness, and we have no equivalent card for him to play. The LibDems cannot afford to go into the electorate with a damaged-goods leader, no matter how right or noble the doing such would be.