Rod McCulloch was on NPR and I just chatted with him briefly.
I won’t use exact quotes since I couldn’t transcribe everything down on a spur of the moment, but the essence is his response to many of the media folks is that the next time he risks his career, believe him.
Overall, he’s a good Republican and it hurts him to see the Party hurt and this is exactly “why he did what he did–to avoid this sort of trainwreck.” He’s not happy to see this happening or gloating, but quite disappointed.
Two things stuck out:
1) Jack is continuing to be deceitful–on WBEZ this morning Jack said he did take his wife to places in the cities that made his wife uncomfortable. I’ll link to it later if I can find the archive, but this clearly means there is a creeping story coming out from Jack.
2) Party leaders who are well respected put themselves on the line and have every right to be angry.
And remember there is still the full file floating out there somewhere so anything not in the redacted version is still likely to come out.