It was an idea deserving of ridicule. Investigating oneself to discover the things one did? Anyone with half a brain would simply
remember what one did or did not do. So, has the Governor of California appropriately decided to scrap this whole charade and come clean?
Hardly.
"Upon consulting with legal counsel and advisers, the governor has concluded that given the political nature of the allegations, an investigation would only be ridiculed by his political opponents and provide little opportunity to put this issue to rest," [spokesman] Rob Stutzman said Monday.
The bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician who put himself forward as a paragon of manliness and power has taken the chickens**t route. What we have here is a red herring as smelly as O.J.'s search for the real killers dropped not in favor of anything really productive, but because such an investigation would have been a political tool for [further] ridicule of Herr Gropenfuhrer.
I hope the media will ridicule him for dropping a ridiculous investigation on the grounds that it would have gained him ridicule.