Norris withdraws from the Áras

I was quite disappointed to learn that David Norris has quit the Irish presidential race, to be honest he was leagues ahead to the competition.  Given his personal life, there are those who would, and have done, strongly oppose his campaign purely based on what he gets up to in the privacy of his own home/car/park-bench with another consenting adult. 
The anti-Norris campaign page can be read here.

It was obvious from the outset that there would be fascists out there out to character-assassinate Norris, and are claiming victory as I write this. Although it must be said, this scandal is only significant of a certain few people.

Though the pederasty of a former partner might dent a high-profile political campaign, Norris got involved by writing to the Israeli authorities begging leniency, which in my view was stupid anyway.  Ignoring the nature of the crime, Norris undermined the Irish diplomatic corps, on his own accord interfered with criminal proceedings in another sovereign territory.  There is no code of practice or indeed legislation preventing elected representatives from using their status overseas, something I do think should be the sole job of the department of foreign affairs.
 

But Norris is not the only Gay presidential candidate to have done such a thing, in 2004 Mitchell called Florida governor, Jeb Bush (yes, Jeb is Dubya's baby brother) pleading against the death sentence of Paul Hill.  The "Pro-Life" campaigner, Hill, shot and killed a man, purely because the victim was a doctor who performed abortions.  Human Rights campaigners oppose the death penalty the world over, but when persons of some status get involved they seem to support the individual more than they oppose the death penalty.

US presidential elections almost always get nasty, which makes them way more entertaining, and exposes the candidates for what they are; petty little children who shouldn't even be let use a scissors unsupervised, let along lead the free world.