The_Sponge: Filthy_Farkle: Vote no for any lawyer running for public office.


Back in 1998 I was working for a State Assembly campaign in California. One day I answered the phone, and the guy on the other end asked if our candidate was a lawyer.

"No," I said.

"Well, he has my vote."

Yeah, in general people are pretty stupid.

GhostFish: Exactly. Anyone that thinks this is damning of Obama or McCain needs to bite their tongue.

It isn't damning of either of them, since neither of them were involved. But it invites the comparison with McCain's own, independent behavior. Can't you comprehend that people might find both Edwards' and McCain's behavior independently reprehensible?

I am not betting that Oliver Stone will make a movie out of this.

:(

the good news is we won't have to see him run for anything again. He will fade away. Live a life of regret. He will kick himself for the rest of his life. He could have been AG.

Yea National Enquirer and its low evidence threshold--they report smoke, and 75% of the time there is actual fire.

Mnemia:
It IS at least a similar situation, so it's inevitable that people would bring it up. And has McCain come clean yet about cheating on his first wife before divorcing her?

Yes. (new window) I never knew it till I saw that article. Not sure what exactly he said though

Bravo, subby, Bravo.

Filthy_Farkle: His career choice taught him dishonesty, or his dishonesty guided his career choice.

Vote no for any lawyer running for public office.

Because all those non-lawyer Republicans are SOOOOO honest and sexually moral!!!!

/You are a total douche!!!

Republican Sex Scandals

(Full list of scandals at Moral Values)
2008

Bruce Barclay, former Cumberland County commissioner, videotaped hundreds of sexual encounters - many with male escorts - using cameras hidden throughout his Monroe Township home.[1]

Matthew Joseph Elliott, former aide to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.[2]

Vito Fossella, the only Republican member of Congress from New York City, admitted to police to having a child out-of-wedlock when stopped for drunk driving.[3]

Robert McKee, Republican delegate from Western Maryland, announced his resignation after authorities seized two computers, videotapes and printed materials from his Hagerstown home in a child pornography investigation. McKee also resigned his position as executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County.[4]

Daniel Dean Thompson, 31, a Utah retailer of "family-friendly" tapes and DVDs (Hollywood films with the "dirty parts" cut out of them), arrested and booked into the Utah County jail on charges of sexual abuse and unlawful sexual activity with a 14-year-old.[5]

Derek Walker, former Eagle Scout and candidate seeking the GOP nomination in a race for north-central Pennsylvania district, was charged with felony burglary and criminal trespass stemming from an encounter last year with an ex-girlfriend, during which he allegedly broke into her home and used his cell phone to videotape her engaged in an intimate moment with another man.[6]
2007

Robert "Bob" Allen, Florida state Rep. Arrested in the afternoon at a Veteran's Memorial Park for solicitation of prostitution from an undercover male officer inside a restroom. According to the papers Bob "offer[ed] to perform oral sex for $20". Bob Later claimed that his offer had something to do with his being afraid of black people.[7]

John David Roy Atchison, Republican prosecutor, was arrested for soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an "assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's attorney general.[8]

E. Ozwald Balfour, chairman of the Utah Republican Black Assembly and elected to the Republican State Central Committee in 2007, even though he was awaiting trial on four felony counts of forcible sex abuse dating back to his arrest in February, 2005.[9]

John Bryan, Republican city councilman, killed himself after police began investigating allegations that he had molested three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15.[10]

Larry Craig Republican Senator for Idaho, was arrested on July 11, 2007, by plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of lewd behavior in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport airport men's room. On August 8 in Hennepin County Municipal Court in Bloomington, Minnesota, Craig entered a guilty plea and paid a $500 fine.[11]. On September 1st, Craig subsequently announced his retirement from the Senate[12]. Five days later, Craig changed his mind, renounced his retirement and began a battle to have his guilty plea overturned.[13]

John R. Curtin, Monroe County state Republican committeeman, was convicted of molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.[14]

Richard Curtis, Washington State Rep., resigned from the House after reports of his sexual encounter with a male escort became public.[15]

Donald Fleischman, Brown County, WI, Republican Party Chairman, resigned his post after he was charged with two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child.[16]

Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have sex with an 8-year old child and was charged with 7 related offenses. Age 62 at time of arrest.[17]

Ted Klaudt, former South Dakota State Rep., found guilty of four counts of second-degree rape of two teenage foster daughters.[18][19]

Ronald C. Kline, Republican Judge in Orange County, CA, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer after six years of legal wrangling. In 2002, charged with child molestation and under house arrest on federal charges of possessing child pornography, political analysts still gave him a 50-50 chance of winning the March 5 primary for the Orange County Superior Court seat. He lost the election to a write-in candidate.

Joseph M. McDade, 75, was issued a summons on a charge of exposure of sexual organs, a misdemeanor that carries up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The longtime Pennsylvania Republican congressman who served for 36 years in the House and now works for a Washington lobbying firm, has been accused of exposing his private parts to two women at a beach resort on Sanibel Island. [20]

Patrick Lee McGuire, former former Flagler County Commissioner, surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.[21]

Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.[22]

Joseph Monteleone Jr., Elyria city councilman, was found guilty of fondling underage girls and asking them, to have sex with him.[23]

Glenn Murphy Jr., chairman of the Clark County Republican Party and president of the Young Republican National Federation, resigned both posts, after the Clark County Sheriff's Department began investigating Murphy for alleged criminal deviate conduct. A 22-year-old man claimed that Murphy performed an unwanted sex act on him while the man slept in a relative's Jeffersonville home. During the investigation, a similar accusation from 1998 came to light.[24]

Armando Tebano, Schenectady County Republican Chairman, pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.[25]

David Vittner, junior Senator from Louisiana, became one of the few high-profile politicians to be implicated as a client of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey.[26]
2006

Steve Aiken, campaign manager for a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, former Quakertown, PA, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend, was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.[27]

Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens. In August 06, Beres confessed.[28]

Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and adviser to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. [29]

Randall Casseday, Washington Times newspaper executive, pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.[30]

Larry Corrigan, Republican operative and Director of Operations and Budget at King County Prosecutor's Office, OR, was arrested for soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.[31]

Carey Lee Cramer Political consultant and anti-Kerry ad producer, tried for molesting two young girls, one of whom lived with him, and was 8 yrs old; the other starred in an anti-Kerry commercial. Diary [32]

Mark Foley, Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages via an instant messenger program. The conversations included his asking a sixteen-year-old "stud" whether his penis was erect and requesting that he take out and measure his penis. The cover-up involved Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Eighth Congressional District and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Illinois Fourteenth District.[33]

Jim Gibbons, then US Rep. and Republican candidate for governor, was accused by a Las Vegas casino cocktail waitress of grabbing her, shoving her against a wall and threatening her after she rebuffed his advances.[34][35] Since elected Governor, Gibbons is under investigation by the FBI on corruption charges and is embroiled in what looks set to become a very messy divorce.[36]

Ted Haggard, was fired as pastor of the New Life Church and resigned from his position as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in November 2006 after a former male prostitute alleged they had a cash-for-sex relationship. The man also said he saw Haggard use methamphetamine. Haggard confessed to undisclosed "sexual immorality" and said he bought meth but didn't use it.[37]

Don Haidl, Assistant Sheriff of Orange Country, in violation of California's rape shield law, led a smear campaign against the child his son poisoned and then violently gang-raped on videotape, adding up to 24 felony counts. He said that his son "acted accordingly" because the child was a "slut".[38][39]

Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, Christian conservative activist and lawyer with close ties to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh, head of the Orange County Republican Party, was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.[40]

Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing what experts call "some of the most offensive material in the child pornography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[41]

Brent Schepp, Republican County Board Candidate was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.[42]
2005

Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers.[43]

John Collins, of Eatontown, NJ, former music teacher and city councilman, pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.[44]

John Gosek Republican Mayor of Oswego, N.Y.was arrested after paying a confidential informant $250 to introduce him to two 15-year-old girls at a hotel.[45]

Dr. W. David Hager Bush appointee, member of Focus on the Family's Physician Resource Council, player in movement to ban the morning-after-pill. Had an adulterous affair, before divorcing his wife he sexually abused her, including sodomizing her in her sleep.[46]

Russell Harding, president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. under then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $400,000 for his personal use and possessing child pornography.[47]

Neal Horsley has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. During an interview with Alan Colmes on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, he admitted to having engaged in sex with a mule at age 11. "When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule," he said. He then credited Jesus with forgiving and cleansing him of his "sin."

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Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee's Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that "Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee."

Dennis L. Rader, AKA, The BTK Killer, Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president, pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.[48]

Jeffrey Kyle Randall, Republican Mayor of Clarkfield, Minnesota, was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys--ages ten and 12--during a six-year period.[49]

Jean Schmidt, OH-2, though not herself implicated, employed a campaign manager (Joe Braun) in her 2005 election who once wrote an article condemning gay men for running sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile called for "submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have hot wax dripped on them.[50]

Mark Seidensticker, Republican campaign worker, is a convicted child molester.[51]

Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Eventually admitted to an affair with a woman 30 years younger than him, after she accused him of physical abuse and attempting to choke her. [52]

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman, pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[53]

Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in "family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit against Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times. [54]

Bobby Stumbo, former Floyd County, KY, Republican Party leader, was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.[55]

Jim West, Spokane Mayor. Supported a bill, which failed, would have barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that "any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person" among teens be criminalized. Had a sexual affair with an 18 year old boy.[56]
2004

Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican former speaker of Puerto Rico's house of representatives, was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of intoxicating his stepdaughter and her 17-year-old friend and attempting to rape the friend.[57]

Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Paid $425,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a gay affair.[58]

Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison. Investigators estimated that he spent at least $5 million.[59][60][61]

Peter Dibble, Republican legislator pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. [62]

Jeff Gannon, partisan blogger with no journalism credentials and a fake name who got invited to Bush's Press conferences. Is also a pimp and a gay prostitute.[63]

Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor, introduced by Bush on the campaign trail, and promoted his policies. Says he supports Bush's values. Two months later, this married father of four turned himself into police, charged with the sexual exploitation of a child.[64][65]

Also signed an ad (that called for criminally prosecuting business that sell porn), along with another pastor who was repeatedly busted for public masturbation.

Mark Pazuhanich, Republican judge, pleaded no contest to fondling his 10-year old daughter and was sentenced to 10 years probation.[66]

Donald Rumsfeld, Republican Defense Secretary, may have authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report here and his full report here.[67]

Jack Ryan, 2004 Republican nominee for US Senate from Illinois, pressured his wive, actress Jeri Ryan, to have sex with other men. Tricked her into visiting sex clubs, where he asked her to have sex with him while others watched.[68]

Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were circulated.[69]

David Swartz, Republican Commissioner, of Richland County, Ohio pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.[70]

Robin Vanderwall, Republican strategist and director of Faith & Family Alliance, (a Christian Coalition spin off), was convicted in April 2004 on five counts of computer solicitation of a minor and one count of attempted indecent liberties with a child.[71]
2003

John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist, convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran. [72]

Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while on an Asian business trip. (Overshadowing the sex scandal; the business scandal--see link.) [73]

Richard A. Delgaudio, Republican fund-raiser and Bush pioneer, was found guilty of child porn charges. [74]

Jack W. Gardner, Republican Councilman, had been convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. when the Republican Party, knowing of these crimes, put him on the ballot.[75]

Philip Giordano, Republican mayor sentenced to 37 years for forcing two 8 and 10 year old girls to perform oral sex on him in his City Hall office.[76][77]

Rush Limbaugh, triple-divorcee[78], 30-pill a day drug addict.[79]. In 2006, returning from a trip to the Dominican Republic, Limbaugh was detained by customs agents for several hours after they found a bottle of Viagra prescribed to someone else in his luggage.[80]

Pat McPherson, Douglas County Election Commissioner, resigned a day after being ticketed on suspicion of fondling a 17-year-old girl who was dressed as a restaurant mascot.[81]

Brent Parker Utah State Representative. Arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a male prostitute.[82]

Stephen White, infamous for preaching against homosexuality and sexual promiscuity at Yale and other college campuses, was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.[83]
2002

Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.[84]

Richard Gardner, a Nevada State Representative (R), admitted to molesting his two daughters. 34% of those who voted in Assembly District 34 preferred Gardner to the Democratic candidate.[85]

Howard Scott Heldreth, anti-abortion activist who gained fame during the Shiavo media-circus, was convicted of two charges of raping a child in 2002.[86]

Tom Randall, Republican petition drive manager of Orange County, CA, pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.[87]

Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative (R), was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).[88] Not long afterwards, Westmoreland committed suicide.[89]
2001

Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist, arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. [90] Also accused of sexually assaulting another girl. [91]

Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography (including children as young as 3 years old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. [92]

Kevin Coan, Republican St. Louis Election Board official, arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet. [93]

John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion columnist and GOP fund raiser. He lost his position after it was revealed that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then encouraged her to abort his child.[94]

Donald "Buzz" Lukens, Republican Congressman from Ohio, was found guilty of having sex with a minor - a girl he was accused of sleeping with since she was 13.[95] Lukens was convicted in March, 1996, on five counts of bribery and conspiracy related to actions he took while in Congress.[96]

Nicholas Morency, Republican anti-abortion activist, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor [97].

Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, fired after child pornography was found in his possession. [98] With his political career over, he went to work in the hard-core pornography industry for Platinum X Pictures, owned by his daughter, porn starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany Schwarz). [99]

Tom Shortridge. Republican campaign consultant, was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. [100]
2000

Keola Childs, Republican County Councilman, pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the first degree for molesting a male child.[101]

Matthew Glavin, president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, big player in the Clinton Impeachment, and many anti-gay jihads, has been arrested multiple times for public indecency, one time fondling the crotch of the officer who was arresting him.[102]

Earl Kimmerling, sentenced to 40 years in prison after he confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.[103]
1999

George Roche III president of conservative Hillsdale College, MI, divorced his wife of 44 years (who had cancer) and remarried five months later. Apparently shocked and upset by the presence of a new woman in her father-in-law's life, Roche's daughter-in-law Lissa revealed that she and her father-in-law had been off-and-on lovers for 19 of the 21 years she and her husband had been married. Shortly thereafter, Lissa took her own life.[104]
1998

Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. [105]

Dan Burton, Republican Congressman who, while married, fathered a child by another woman. [106]

Dan Crane, Republican Congressman, married, father of six. Received a 100% "Morality Rating" from Christian Voice. Had sex with a minor working as a congressional page.[107] On July 20, the House voted for censure Crane, the first time that censure had been imposed for sexual misconduct.[108]

Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). In 1995, Chenoweth had denied having an affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review. In 1998 she called (in a campaign ad) for Bill Clinton's resignation saying "I believe that personal conduct and integrity do matter". Days later she admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate. but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed.

Henry Hyde, Judge who oversaw Clinton's impeachment proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were divorced. [109]

Hang On Voltaire: Yes. (new window) I never knew it till I saw that article. Not sure what exactly he said though

Thanks. I hadn't seen that admission either.

Good play by Edwards. Wife spitting blood and dying, while he keeps getting campaign contributions and farking a 40+ that should have known better. Shiat, I want that job. Actually, I don't.

OK, here's my theory. Ready?

1. Men like to fark women.

2. Men in "power" are "smart", and want to have offspring that are "smart", to ensure the survival of our race. It is a primal instinct.

3. Men that think about sex the most (I'm talking top 1%) tend to be smart enough to land them a job that makes a ton of money, or be corrupt enough to steal enough money to support that lifestyle, aka, politicians, oil execs, etc. These guys bang shiatloads of women.

Is it reprehensible? Sure.
Is it surprising? Not in the least.
Does it excuse him? Nope.

/end theory

Hang On Voltaire: Mnemia:
It IS at least a similar situation, so it's inevitable that people would bring it up. And has McCain come clean yet about cheating on his first wife before divorcing her?

Yes. (new window) I never knew it till I saw that article. Not sure what exactly he said though

he had several affairs before divorcing his first wife. It just so happened Cindy had what it took to hook him. namely 100 million bucks and a politically connected daddy

Generally, the partisan affiliation of Republicans teach them dishonesty and sexual immorality, or their dishonesty and sexual immorality leads them to Republicanism.

Don't vote for any Republican for public office.

Only a Democrat knows for sure...if that's her natural hair color.

/kinda looks like she been bleachin' it for 50 years

I wonder if the media (mainly "Go Democrats" CNN) will actually cover it now?

Mnemia Although, if he was lying before he might be lying now.

Right. But the one thing about his lies-- they are always to make him look better, not worse. If he's lying through omission, it won't be to leave out mitigations like "we have an open marriage." It will be to leave out things like "when I said that she may have been getting payments I don't know about from friends of mine, I left out that I told her that if friends of mine started to give her money, that she should not tell me."

Inseminating young hotties (superfluos) is all that left between 50 somethings like John and shiatting in a bag. Leave him be. Now if he's in his 20's doing this shiat and walking on down the road, castration. But old dudes that can pay out, let em be. What do you want, they mebbe turn to pure mush? It's bad enough getting old.

Hobodeluxe: he had several affairs before divorcing his first wife. It just so happened Cindy had what it took to hook him. namely 100 million bucks and a politically connected daddy

Yeah, it seems somehow worse when you cheat on your wife at least partially for political power and money.

I wonder how many liberals will recant now that the enquirer was right?

I'm guessing slim to none....and slim's already done packing his bags and heading to the airport.

Such is the life of a liberal farker.

radioshack: barneyfifesbullet: Daily Kos ends up looking like dicks about this.

why?

And would they know it if they did?

bobfo rapples: Politicians who have hot wives are less likely to cheat than politicians married to big-bottomed fatties.

Does anyone think Denis Kucinich is ever going to cheat on actually have sex with his wife. Not going to happen.

FTFY

libbynomore2:
Really? History and the facts betray you, but don't let that get in your way.

Oh, and swollow your Edwards STFU juice and be on your way.

really? david vitter, mark foley, larry craig, newt gingrich and bob livingston beg to differ.


Thanks for making my point:

Gingrich-forced out of office

Livingston-forced out of office

Foley-Gone too

Craig-stripped of committees and soon to be gone

Duke Cunningham-Gone

Oh, and you forgot Bob Packwood who did nothing different than Bill Clinton but Packwood was forced out while Clinton was protected and defended.

Sorry, I'm having trouble thinking of even ONE Democrat forced out for doing something similar? I mean, Barney Frank was running a Gay Prostitution ring out of his house and he's still in office. Ted Kennedy left a woman to die to save his own political ass for gosh sakes and was protected and defended by the Democrats. Hell, even William Jefferson who was found with millions in bribe money in his freezer was protected and kept on important committees by Pelosi's Politburo until he was convicted of bribery and fraud. I'm sure if they could have found a way to keep his corrupt ass there, they would have.

Again, you really need to STFU and drink your kool-aid

Mnemia: Yeah, it seems somehow worse when you cheat on your wife at least partially for political power and money.

one could argue if not for his affair he would not be where he is today.

Says "He doesn't love her".

What a dumb ass, now he isn't going to get ANY pussy from either woman.

Nestea Plunge: With a female, even, so you know it's a Democrat.


Aside from this being completely unoriginal and just not funny - you're also full of shiat.

Former Governor McGreevey, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds, Frederick Richmond... Plenty of examples on the other side. Self-righteousness and sexual repression isn't a one party issue.

The_Sponge: jst3p: The_Sponge: Filthy_Farkle: Vote no for any lawyer running for public office.


Back in 1998 I was working for a State Assembly campaign in California. One day I answered the phone, and the guy on the other end asked if our candidate was a lawyer.

"No," I said.

"Well, he has my vote."

Yeah, in general people are pretty stupid.


That guy was probably going to vote for our guy anyway (conservative district), he just had a dislike for lawyers.

Best example of stupid voters:

1) "My husband's first name is also XXX, I'll vote for him."
2) "I had friend with the same last name, he has my vote."

Vote Jeff Johnson, the name you know. Jeff Johnson the name you trust!

Albert: What a dumb ass, now he isn't going to get ANY pussy from either woman.

He said in the ABC interview that he told his wife and kids about it back in 2006.

(Nevertheless, that was a pretty stupid thing to say, it's useless as damage control and makes you look like a douchebag).

Mnemia: GhostFish: Exactly. Anyone that thinks this is damning of Obama or McCain needs to bite their tongue.

It isn't damning of either of them, since neither of them were involved. But it invites the comparison with McCain's own, independent behavior. Can't you comprehend that people might find both Edwards' and McCain's behavior independently reprehensible?

Who's inviting the comparison though?

Rather unprovoked, people have instantly brought up McCain's history as if by some sort of defense mechanism. Similarly, people are instantly cracking jokes that anytime a Republican has an affair it's a homosexual one. Which is completely biased and untrue, while also sending the message that homosexual affairs are somehow worse.

It's all bullshiat. It's god damn ridiculous. Edwards cheats on his wife, and the effect is that people now feel free to bash McCain over his cheating past?

Why don't we just recognize that it's a sad, sorry situation for any family to go through and that we should bite our tongues and not try to politicize it?

Hobodeluxe:
he had several affairs before divorcing his first wife. It just so happened Cindy had what it took to hook him. namely 100 million bucks and a politically connected daddy

Is this where I but but but John Kerry?

They don't want to report on a McCain affair because it would make him look virile. That would get in the way of mentioning he was old.

Unless he used Viagra of course.

I bet John Edwards enforces the Peter North Hair Rule while banging.

No touchy. No, really. Don't touch. Don't. Dammit.

Look at him gripping his tiny little fist. If I was a woman I would squat on this thread for a refreshing blast of cool water.

keithmccants: They don't want to report on a McCain affair because it would make him look virile. That would get in the way of mentioning he was is old.

Unless he used Viagra of course.

FTFM

GhostFish: It's all bullshiat. It's god damn ridiculous. Edwards cheats on his wife, and the effect is that people now feel free to bash McCain over his cheating past?

I've been bashing McCain over his cheating past the entire campaign. If he wants to run for president, it's fair game. Especially since his affair was an integral part of his rise to political power.

Aaron Haynes He said in the ABC interview that he told his wife and kids about it back in 2006.

Oh, that settles it then. He said so. It must be true.

/I can't believe you typed that with a straight face.

This is just another example of our fine Democratic party. One more reason why i vote GOP.

Nestea Plunge: Democ

and she's of age to boot, so definitely a dem.

GhostFish: Mnemia: GhostFish: Exactly. Anyone that thinks this is damning of Obama or McCain needs to bite their tongue.

It isn't damning of either of them, since neither of them were involved. But it invites the comparison with McCain's own, independent behavior. Can't you comprehend that people might find both Edwards' and McCain's behavior independently reprehensible?

Who's inviting the comparison though?

Rather unprovoked, people have instantly brought up McCain's history as if by some sort of defense mechanism. Similarly, people are instantly cracking jokes that anytime a Republican has an affair it's a homosexual one. Which is completely biased and untrue, while also sending the message that homosexual affairs are somehow worse.

It's all bullshiat. It's god damn ridiculous. Edwards cheats on his wife, and the effect is that people now feel free to bash McCain over his cheating past?

Why don't we just recognize that it's a sad, sorry situation for any family to go through and that we should bite our tongues and not try to politicize it?

Oooo! Me! Me!

Because this is Fark? We'd politicize it if the man was hit by a car.


/How many cars has McCain been hit by recently? Hmmmm?

captain_heroic44


Yeah, and the list of deviant Democrats just CAN'T be that long.

Oh, and in your cut and paste " research " did you come accross any Republicans who got drunk with a woman not his wife drove a car off a bridge and left the mistress to drown in the river to save his own political ass?

If there is such a person, I guarantee you he was forced out. That's the only difference between Dem's and Repub's. Both sides have screw ups, but only one side holds their own accountable and it ain't Democrats.

2008 has been a fairly busy year as far as politicians' self destruction goes. The Clintons rode that horse as far as it will go, Old Man Stevens is gone, Edwards, and not to mention the medical problems of Kennedy and Byrd. I know my fellow Farkers will fill me in on who I missed.

If only there wasn't a steady supply of these clowns, it might seem like we were actually starting to shovel them out.