Hitching your wagon to the wrong star

There have been a couple of times the last few days when I was wondering whether anybody would miss Commissar Pawlenty if he were to disappear for a few days, or whether anybody would mind. But I was never by my computer at the right time to post the question.

But now that we find that the Governor of South Carolina was not taking a hermit’s hike, but instead was philandering internationally, the subject has different coloration.

And I suddenly feel sorry for a lot of Republicans in South Carolina. It is a concern in the back [and sometimes the front of] every political activist’s [professional or volunteer] mind that he/she will support a candidate who does something unconscionable. Think of Grunseth followers in 1990 or local Dino Guerin supporters in the middle of the last decade. Think of where Bill Clinton supporters might be heading if the Monica Lewinski thing had come out during his first term. Or of Elliot Spitzer backers last year.

And new Nixon tapes are out. He must have left a few supporters disappointed also.

You can say that that’s life, that things like that happen, but for those involved it must still suck.