Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
This is quite unbelievable.
I know what you mean, but people can learn from their mistakes. Hughes' personal history seems like a complicated affair of the kind that may teach people the true value of honesty and integrity. Then again, it may not. So how does he deal with it?

The 1983 campaign was a stink, but at least he now acknowledges that. And his avowed homosexual relationships are neither here nor there when it comes to fulfilling a role in public life; denying that would make us belated accomplices to his 1983 campaign.

I wonder what makes him unsuitable and unpalatable now as opposed to trenty years ago. Show me a politician who was not a jerk in some sense or other twenty years ago. At least Hughes has come clean, and what he says is essentially right: 'Nobody has a perfect life. I have never claimed I have. Very few people have simple lives. I believe that people have a right to a private life, providing that their private life does not impinge upon their public responsibilities.'

The words benefit and doubt come to mind. My own mind, I know; not yours probably.