What protects candidates isn’t the details of their biography, but their charisma and skill as campaigners. It’s why a legit war hero was effectively smeared as hating the military and being anti-American in a campaign vs a drunkard draft dodger, but a black guy named Barrack Hussein Obama who had been a member of a pretty far left black church skated and nobody cared when tapes surfaced of his pastor saying “God damn America!”