We live in a world where having an opinion at any time in the past is a dangerous thing if you want to run for an office.
At one time people understood that your opinion can change based on life experience.
Nowadays the #TwitterTrolls think everything that ever happened just happened and anything can be twisted into a criticism.
Did you ever not support gay marriage, even if you do now, well too late.
Did you ever insult any group in any way, even if it takes convoluted reasoning to do so, too bad for you.
Oddly some of the worst offenders seem to get a pass by these people, they love to find obscure things about clean candidates.
The fact that we pay any attention to them is the real mystery, or maybe not.
It provides a quick easy story and many news outlets now seem to rely on twitter instead of doing actual research.
The fact that a few posts on twitter get reinforced in news stories on "reputable" news sources is a vicious cycle.
It might be the reporters themselves posting tweets they can report on.
It would make things easier for them.
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