“It’s no longer enough to have had a few illicit affairs with strippers and the like, or even to have paid for abortions,” says political consultant Rollin Thehay.  “The bar is much higher now.  In today’s political marketplace you have to have plausibly banged a porn star or two.”

“My phone has been ringing off the hook with politicians wanting to get with me,” says Amber Honey.  “Take a number.”

Rollin elaborates, “It doesn’t hurt to have a few old racist remarks in your Twitter account either.” He suggests using phrases like “colored people” where you can say you were referring to people with colored powder on them participating in the Indian festival of Holi.  “You might not think that rationale would fly, and a decade ago you would have been right,” he says.  “But it’s just table stakes these days.”