There is no hard cut, and it's unfair to hold anyone to the standard of "everything you said in the past is fair game"so what's the cut off point then where the shitty things that politicians said or did in their past gets a free pass? is it 10 years? 25? you need to set a hard time limit, otherwise that's such an arbitrary notion of cherry picking what "counts" from a candidate's past that you might as well just ignore everything about their history up to the moment they announced their run.
i guess i have to say this yet again already, but i think it's pretty self-evident that if i say "fuck candidate x" i certainly don't mean "don't vote for candidate x in the general election". if biden is the nominee against trump, then not voting for him would be a total moral and ethical failure.
that doesn't mean joe biden isn't near the bottom of the list of people i'd like to see in that spot, though.
There are better ways to judge.
Does the person have a history of going where the wind blows? If yes? Fuck that guy.
No? Okay. Is/has the person followed up their new found change of heart with actual action, or is it just bullshit? Just bullshit? Fuck that guy.
Yes? Alright, let's talk.