In today’s political landscape, opponents use subtle things like something someone may have written in a college newspaper or something that they may have said to a colleague twenty years earlier as grounds for an attack. Now, we have things like Facebook and Twitter where young people are able to say and do whatever they want without a thought of their implications on their future success. I can just imagine a future presidential debate where the moderator asks the candidate “On December 3rd, 2010 You tweeted: “F**kThis S**t, I’m gettin drunk.” Would you care to elaborate on that?”. Another potential thing is pulling up a tagged facebook picture from someone’s college years showing the candidate peeing in public while he was drunk. I mean, think of the vast amount of information people will have on politicians in the future that they do not currently have access to. All in all, it’s going to be hilarious to watch a candidate try to defend a tweet from twenty or thirty years ago. I know that I certainly have tweets that would offend some people and make me a rather unelectable candidate to some people. Do you?

– Murph