Even if she was pregnant, you’d think it Condit would have been smart enough to realize coming clean was a better course of action than murder. Post-Jesse-Jackson, anyway. Surely Californians are just as forgiving as Jackson’s supporters.
I agree with the thread title wholeheartedly: Condit’s a dumbass.
Not necessarily. Sleazy yes but stupid no. Given the sloppy, offhand investigation of the murder before her parents raised a stink and the kid glove handling he has received to date he figured he could afford to play the odds. He did and he lost because, like Clinton, he mistakenly assumed she kept her mouth shut about the affair.
But let’s look at how it normally would have played out and
let’s assume for a moment he doesn’t have anything to do with her disappearance and that he believed she had not told anyone about the affair.
Option 1: She turns up dead by murder in a few days. Case closed. He’s safe.
Option 2: She turns up dead by her own hand. He’s safe.
Option 3: She’s found communing with nature in a commune somewhere. He’s safe.
Option 4: She told her aunt about the affair and this starts a media avalanche. He’s screwed.
75% safe odds (from his perspective) and he escapes without a hair of his careful coif being mussed. Not nice but not necessarily stupid (except about the limits of young female discretion).
Anyone looking for a summer job?
http://www.house.gov/gcondit/
(check out the red link on the left side)
Zette
I thought the principle of KEEPING YOUR GODDAMN DICK IN YOUR PANTS was clear and straighforward when it comes to the workplace, especially regarding young interns. Is there something about this that’s hard to grasp? Is there something I don’t know about Washington DC?
What in the hell is wrong with people?
For the record, Levy was not an intern in Condit’s office. She was an intern at the Bureau of Prisons, and a constituent of Condit. A friend of her’s was an intern in his office, and that’s how she met Condit.
I bet Condit was thinking yesterday, “Well, I wanted something to get me off page 1, but jeez…”
Uncalled for.
ITR, I’m sorry my post was taken the wrong way. I wasn’t trying to be funny. Rather, I’m giving Condit’s situation as an example of one of the many, many problems people have had before yesterday morning that are now secondary concerns. That’s why I had him saying “but jeez…” I was picturing him watching the TV or sitting in a meeting, his head bowed, thinking that he’d rather be stuck in an eternal loop of interrogation than to have to watch this. He undoubtedly wished for the media to ease off him, but this can’t be the way he wanted it to happen.
A lot of “secondary concerns” may never be settled now, because this is affecting everyone, and will continue to do so for a long time. I’m sure there were many people in New York who were looking for jobs or homes, or better ones. Now jobs and homes will be hen’s teeth. On Monday, many people had problems with relationships or family or money or work, that they may have thought they couldn’t handle, or just barely. Now we all have the same problem.
And any hangups we had on Monday, we will have to resolve in a damn hurry in order to get through this.
I should relate that to my Mr. Rilch posts in MPSIMS.
Ok, I see your point a little better know. Sorry.
Gary WHO???/