Things looking up for Republicans in Connecticut.

[UtahDan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_579656.html

Or maybe people will forgive this. Lots of people don't remember the 60s very clearly.

[cowboy]

Voters will forgive. This won't hurt him nearly enough to cost him the election. Frankly, I'm much more surprised that the Times broke the story than I would be if he actually won the election.

[myboynoah]

I don't know cowboy, too many more op-eds like this and he may be toast.

Why would anyone need to lie about having been in Vietnam?

As a Marine (and Vietnam veteran of no distinction whatsoever), I've run into men who told me they'd been in the Marines, too. Always happy to meet a fellow Marine, I'd ask what unit they served in.

"Oh, I was in . . . the 173rd . . ." Except there is no 173rd in the Marine Corps. I've felt embarrassed for them and wondered how empty their lives were that they'd tell such a lie. Jim Lehrer, PBS anchorman and former Marine, wrote a pungent little novel, "The Phony Marine," about this quirk in the male ego.

. . .

What a withering stare it must be for some men, that they'll shame themselves far worse than they were shamed before, by telling a lie.