I am obliged to offer it all the same. I'm softer than others are on Tipper's heartthrob, who, for all the lousiness of his political, er, vision, doesn't strike me as essentially worse than a lot of other politicians. He strikes me as, in some sense, a creature of his times. This sort of thing can be catching if you stand too close. Without such as these cheering while he and David Boies fight on in the judicial system, Al might modestly have stepped aside long ago, accepting narrow but apparent defeat.
People tend to smack their lips at the idea of someone's wielding power in their behalf.
The Founding Fathers, of whom we have profitably heard much this election season, knew all about such corruptions. It should not. We intentionally limit governmental power because, on the evidence, seekers after raw power are rarely the sort you'd care to invite home for dinner. Their real appetites lie elsewhere. Unless we're careful, we all may get bitten.