For the life of me I can’t understand why George W. Bush did not reveal his drunk driving arrest a long time ago — given the current state of American politics I’m convinced it would have helped his efforts. All he had to do was wait until he had the Republican nomination wrapped up and then schedule a heart-to-heart interview with one of those insipid network types like Barabara Walters and reveal his pain. People love that stuff for some reason (look at Missouri where the sympathy factor has a dead man beating his opponent for a Senate seat).
Instead it comes as a surprise bombshell right before the election that makes people wonder a) why was he hiding the DUI for so long, and b) more importantly, are there other arrests and/or incidents Bush is hiding?
Bush’s campaign isn’t helping matters by calling the sudden reports of the arrest as Democrat Party dirty tricks, which sounds too much like Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “vast right wing conspiracy” line.