It’s time for Sean Sullivan to pull out of the race for Congress. His past associations make him completely unfit for the office.
Why do I say this? Well, consider this new attack from the McCain campaign:
The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama’s past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama — even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.
The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’ wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.
That’s right. Every political candidate (or in this case the candidate’s wife) can and should be judged by the political views, past or present, of everyone and anyone with whom they now, or ever have, shared an employer.
Why does this mean that Sean Sullivan should bow out of the race? Very simple. He shared a common employer with a known left winger, a person whose Democratic sympathies were well known long before Sullivan went to work for that employer. How do I know? Because that person is me. Sullivan worked in close proximity to me for months and, to the best of my recollection, did not denounce me once. So far as I can tell, he respected me and I respected him. Which just goes to show that he even fooled me, as I never suspected his true political orientation. In retrospect it is clear that his willingness to work in the same office as a person of known left wing sympathies proves that his claim to being a Republican, let alone a patriotic American, is a mere sham. Once in office, should he ever get there, he will drop the facade of Republicanism and show himself for the left wing Democrat that he must be. At the very least he owes the Republicans of this District an explanation for his willingness to work alongside me-sometimes on the very same case. He has avoided question about this shameful period in his life for far too long.
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