ASKED..If a "public figure" gets up on their hind legs?

and goes public with their "political views" or otherwise puts themselves in the public eye, is it proper/not proper to hold them to answer for their previous views/statements/actions?..for example if Jihad Jane keeps spouting should her critics be able to hold her to her actions when she was known as Hanoi Jane?...or if Taco Bill(in case of war,make a run for the border) Clinton should be nominated for president of the National Orginazation for Women should his past actions ala Monica be used as a yardstick?