[Fred Mertz]

When he comes clean he'll be pilloried by the left and probably by the upstanding conservatives too.

He's treading on thin ice, but he'll make it.

[ambrose]

When he comes clean he'll be pilloried by the left and probably by the upstanding conservatives too.

What sort of "updstanding conservative" would pillory him for being a drug addict? It should evoke sympathy. Sometimes there's a real ugly side to some so-called "conservatives"...