No, I'm not being snarky about Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts. (Clinically depressed maybe, but not snarky) I don't think it should matter at all that he posed nude for a Cosmo centerfold almost three decades ago, when he was a law student. And I think that the fact that virtually no media paid any attention to this during the campaign was exactly correct.

But if Scott Brown were Sarah Brown, and Sarah had picked up some extra money during law school posing for the same kind of photo, do you think it even remotely possible that this would not have haunted her during the campaign?