[cgk]

First, he had no idea that woman was his cousin, so criticizing him for it is not only bad strategy, but simply mean.

Well... It's hard to argue this point when his family spent summers with her and her family, and her nickname was "little cousin". I think a stranger omission from his official biography are his two teenage children from his marriage with Hanover. It isn't as if his being previously married is a secret.

[Mr. Silverback]

Hey, that's great, let's make all this stuff a major talking point. We won't sound stupid at all. No, really, the average voter will really, really connect with it.

Give me a bloody break.