Odd Timing

Less than 24 hours after winning the nomination for Lt. Governor, all sorts of stories are coming out about nominee Scott Lee Cohen:

• Steroids;
• Prostitutes;
• Domestic Battery;

All sorts of stuff. It's almost like the media was sitting on this and suddenly had a golden opportunity. There's no plausible explanation that we can see that this wasn't vetted beforehand. A basic background check would have revealed the arrest, then everything else would have been just a matter of tracking down records.

Again, we should be glad Quinn has this millstone to drag around and we certainly hope Cohen continues to refuse to drop out of the race, but it just makes us wonder how low an opinion of Illinois citizens the media and democrats have in general if they could sit on this crap the entire time leading up to the election and then cover it as some "big surprise."