Ironically if any of us were to be judged purely on the basis of any one that we've had even the slightest contact with in our lives it would be considered an unfare evaluation. However if you choose to run for a political office it's open season. Even your third grade teachers drinking habits could be enough of a reason to cause people to believe that maybe you share some of her charcter flaws and thus by association you are therefor unfit to be a leader. I love my country but sometimes it seems that insanity has become the national past time!