[Congressman Billybob]

It'w a simple equation. You make yourself big in the media, and any nasty stuff in your background will come out. Witness Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro. If she hadn't become a candidate for Vice President, the fact that her husband was a slum lord would never have made the major media.

Ritter had his attempted child molesting buried, by his lawyer engineering a dismissal in court and a sealing of the file. Had he kept a low profile, that probably would never have come to public light.

But he made himself and his credibility a national and international issue. That sort of spotlight can and will smoke the skeletons out of the closet. The "timing" he is complaining about was caused by his own actions. If he has a real complaint with the cause of this result, he is free to commit suicide.

Congressman Billybob

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[Bonaparte]

"You make yourself big in the media, and any nasty stuff in your background will come out."

Curtis Mayfield said it best, did he not?

But if you lose don't ask no questions why,
Only game you know is do or die,
Ah, Super-Fly!

Ritter over-matched himself. Now he's going to be held up and whipped for 12 rounds. And his mama ain't comin'.