Damn, who took that picture, and why'd they put it on the web? My Congressional aspirations are ruined. Ruined, I tell you!
I wouldn't rule him out. There have been plenty of candidates with checkered past who have won elected office.
Yes, but most do not keep virtual online journals of everything they later wish to expunge from their records. I'm curious how Bush's "everything I did before 40 doesn't count" concept would have fared had he grown up in the age of Facebook, when opposition researchers could dig up Bush's snapshot of himself holding the DUI with a big, sloppy-faced, smiling thumbs up. (Is that "checkered" italics a Nixon reference? If so, well-played.)
Do it, just to learn the nuts and bolts of the political process, and be a more informed and engaged citizen.