The Boston Herald recently reported that Christy's daughter Ashley posted a photo of the family raising shot glasses in a toast on her Facebook profile. The photo has since been removed, but not before the photo had made its way around cyberspace and onto desktops. 

The toast was to celebrate young Christy's (also in the photo, along with mom) 21st birthday. But a copy of the Boston Herald shown sitting on the table suggests that perhaps the family was actually toasting Christy Mihos' high profile appearance on the cover. 

My question is, why do we care?  Why is it that a family cannot be allowed to have a drink in honor of a brother's birthday, or a father's success, and post those pictures where they want to? 

Jeff Roe on his conservative blog “The Source” says the Internet is the place to go to dig for dirt. “Candidates, and children of candidates - their Facebook and MySpace pages are the first thing we check,” Roe said. “It falls right in there with tax and voting records.”

So perhaps one's decision on whom to vote for in the gubernatorial race should be influenced by the candidates preference on beer (the Mihoses enjoy Sam Adams, I myself am an Amstel Light fan) rather than on his position on primary issues. Because that is what this is, right?  It’s a distraction from the real issues. 

But, in the internet-political world one must just learn to be very very careful.  Phil Noble told the Herald   “I think every politician and everyone related to them should put a little note next to the ‘enter’ button of their computer that says: ‘How will this look on the front page of the paper?’”

Well, I think the photo would make a great cover.

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