17 thoughts on “Question of the Day”

  1. No, I have too many other items in my closet that would keep me from running for office…. And wouldn’t you like to know what they are….

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  2. I use a name that I originally picked to play an online computer game, but plug my real email address into forms that ask for it. It’s my first name at my last name dot com. So if that ever ends up searchable, I’m outed.
    I mostly worry about medical discussions. I’m a nurse at a fertility clinic and I read infertility blogs, and I wouldn’t want a patient to get weirded out somehow.
    I used to say that I couldn’t ever run for public office because I believe in means-testing social security (a heresy I picked up while campaigning for Paul Tsongas in Miami Beach and seeing truly wealthy people dump him because of anonymous flyers saying he might touch their checks.) I haven’t heard anyone talk about that in years. I guess that’s just not the Bush approach.

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  3. No I have plenty of real life warts to worry about the cyber ones.
    I do think it’s to point that it is so easy to find dirt on anyone, that I wonder how anyone can contemplate public service.

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  4. Wasn’t really planning on running for office. But I do worry that I’ll be fired. Although I think most people in my office assume I’m really boring, because of the type of work I do, so I don’t think they’re looking me up. Or if they are, it’s because they want to go out with me, which makes them somehow complicit.

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  5. If asked, I would not run…But I’ve never hired an illegal alien or a nanny, I haven’t taken any kickbacks, I did inhale back in college…but I don’t think I say bad things about people..that don’t deserve it to be said! So no, I’m not worried.

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  6. For sure I inhaled—often. Not to mention—well, I won’t mention it. As a college senior I also wrote a Marxist critique of marginalism. If they won’t elect me knowing that, they don’t deserve me!

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  8. Being an atheist pretty much disqualifies me. Atheist Ph.D.? Why not just paint myself red and call myself Karl Marx.

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  10. If the governator can get elected, anything in a blog can be spun positively.
    However, I still worry about my permanent record in elementary school! I also used to wonder if someone with a C average would ever get elected, however, I’m starting to notice the correlation to poicy decisions and I’d rather have a Rhodes scholar.

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  11. Personally, I just don’t have the personality to be able to run for office anyway, so I don’t worry about it. I’m generally not that inflammatory or controversial in my writings anyway.

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  12. I don’t have the strength nor the backstabbing or networking skills to be a politician. However, if in some kooky chance that I was asked to run the only thing a person can get from my blog is that I’m neurotic and compulsive which can work for and against me.

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  13. A UU feminist Green with a PhD here. The blog is thus the least of my troubles, in terms of electability.
    Sad, innit?
    But, yes, I do think about my on-line reputation and the implications if I get “outed” — I think I’ve been pretty good, but you never know, in this age of spin and mis-quotation.

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  15. Yes I do. I publish under my real name so it’s extremely easy to find me. I’m kind of toying with the idea of running for office in GA in a year and a half if there are any unopposed GOP candidates. So the blog crosses my mind periodically.

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  16. I’m more worried that my kids will find it someday and read it and think “My god – our mother is crazy!”
    But then again, perhaps they would be right…

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  17. For sure I inhaled—often. Not to mention—well, I won’t mention it. As a college senior I also wrote a Marxist critique of marginalism. If they won’t elect me knowing that, they don’t deserve me!

    Bye Sepp

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