McGavick gaffe blows up in face

I did not care one iota about US Senate candidate Mike McGavick's admission to a 1993 drunk driving arrest, and took all the Democratic potshots at him in the aftermath to be a cheap and pointless attack. However, as reports surface that McGavick's supposedly forthcoming story about that night were sugarcoated, this could and should become a real scandal. Larry Sabato, perhaps the nation's foremost elections analyst, was quoted in today's P-I as saying:

"If you're going to go the confession route in politics, make sure it's a full and accurate confession...Otherwise, you're defeating your own purpose and you're going to create a second spate of worse stories, which is exactly what (McGavick) has done."

Sabato is 100% correct. Barring any unforseen gaffes, Maria Cantwell should not have to worry about not being reelected anymore.