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- Kinda makes you wish for Mitterand or Berlusconi or Sarkozi. If American pols didn't makes such a fuss THEMSELVES about family values, maybe would choose our reps on the basis of their ability to lead us and not on their private morals.
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- Another, "Family Values" Republican hypocrite is exposed. When will the holy roller types wake up?.........never!!! thats right NEVER!
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- When did John Edwards run ON "Family Values"? IF anyone wants to know just how disgusting and slimy this piece of Human Trash really is, pull up some of his Propaganda during his last election. It will FLAT turn your stomach.
- The 20 percent that are the remaining GOP really do not get it. They think it is OK to go out and lie to America, spread their CHRISTIAN TALIBAN propaganda, spout their "family Values", then go screw around with (man, woman, whatever) whomever they want. Not to mention the hush money they pay to hide it all.
"Do as we tell you to do, not as we do" should be the GOP motto. "Always happy to legislate away your right to live your life the way you want." might be another.
- True!
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- Folks you can't make this crap up! ROFLMAO What kind of bimbo is this turkey married too?
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- Now we know why he turned down the federal stimulus money.
"I'm stimulated enough, thank you." - Reply to this comment
- Unbelievable. Another GOP hypocrite and potential 2012 contender is exposed. Coming so soon after Ensign's revelation, I wonder if one of the other GOP contender's (say, Romney's) opposition research teams are behind this? Possibly they're torpedoing their rivals early so he slowly becomes the consensus/default candidate?
The Dems would be more likely to keep this stuff secret until the time when it would be more useful. - Reply to this comment
- BWAAAAAAAaaaaaahahahahaha.......Wingnuts....
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- I am sure this affair can be squarely blamed on his wife because she was not fullfilling her womanly duties.
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- Ok, who are you really, mrs_trepidatious? At the risk of sounding like rowdy, are you really someone like slownewsday, posting outrageously wacko statements to make the neocons look like idiots? If so - bravo!
- No, slow, I meant whoever is posing as mrs_trepiditious is a brilliant liberal, saying outrageous things posing as a neocon, to make them look stupid. If you don't want to take credit for being brilliant, then someone else is going to, lol!
- Sanford is just another 'do as I say, not as I do', holy-roller hypocrite from a Slave State.
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- Trust me, the 20% gah-gah club doesn't get it and they never will:
Blame Clinton for an affair -fine, I get that.
What do you hold Bush, Cheney accountable for?
Before you say, "keepin' us safe" - see 911, economic meltdown leading to world-wide recession and Katrina FEMA fiasco.
Now, for holding your guys up to the Clinton standard:
McCain - had a well-documented affair on his first wife, with his current wife. He has admitted in the books he has written about his life that he ran around with several different women while still married to his first wife. And don't forget that he left her for a younger, richer woman - multi-millionaire Cindy Hensley who is now Cindy McCain - after she had been severely hurt in a car accident.
Newt - there was Jackie, his former high school math teacher, whom he divorced as she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery, and Marianne, whom he married shortly after divorcing Jackie, and with whom he was still married when he began his relationship with Callista -- an affair that occurred around the time he was promising to never give another speech as Speaker of the House without mentioning the Lewinsky scandal.
Rush (the Colonel) - triple-divorcee Rush gets the "Bill Bennett Hypocrisy" award for hypocrisy. Limbaugh was in the service of two masters, playing both the mighty trumpeter for the army of interests waging the costly and devastating war on drugs, and also apparently playing the junkie who scored black market drugs in the service of his need for a fix. The contradiction uncovered by the revelation of Limbaugh's addiction is breathtaking: perched safely away from the mass policing and incarceration of millions of Americans, Limbaugh sneered at the ruinous consequences of the war on drugs, particularly for people of color. Fairness, he blustered, did not require reductions in the incarceration of people of color, but rather an increase in the incarceration of whites who, all too often, get away with illegal drug use.
And we could keep running laps on Rove, O'Rielly, Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, Ralph Reed, William Bennett, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, Scooter Libby...
- Trust me, the 20% gah-gah club doesn't get it and they never will:
- Typical GUY!
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- The volume of the derision for this hypocrite would be lower if he did not belong to the GOP party of "Christian soldier Family Values" that they want to shove down the throats of ever American.
These "Christian Republicans" are liars and hypocrites. They want to tell YOU WHAT TOP DO IN YOUR OWN BEDROOMS, but it's A-OK for them to screw around and lie. F'em
- The volume of the derision for this hypocrite would be lower if he did not belong to the GOP party of "Christian soldier Family Values" that they want to shove down the throats of ever American.
- Oh my gosh, a politician is human! Stop the press.... this is headline news...give me a break! Who care's who he beds with! Too bad for his wife and family.
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- Personally - I don't care who he's in bed with. But the voters who voted for him care - he ran on his image as a religious leader, following religious doctrine.
Myself - I see something far worse here - he left the state without a governor without putting the lieutenant governor in place. In the event of any emergency, there would be confusion, and his staff making decisions that only an ELECTED official should be making.
- I agree it should be a personal matter except that Republicans have decided morality is their domain. What they prove is that the fail time and time again. His hypocrisy is what dooms him.
The difference is Bill Clinton never professed to be a moral icon; the Republicans just tried to impeach him for it.
- It's the hypocrisy, if you don't understand maybe this will help:
Political actions
In dissent with the Republican Party of South Carolina, Sanford, whose faith is Episcopal, opposes the faith-based license plates his state offers, marketed largely to the state's conservative evangelical citizens. After allowing the law to pass without his signature, he wrote, "It is my personal view that the largest proclamation of one's faith ought to be in how one lives his life."
Let them eat grits...
After the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which Governor Sanford strongly opposed and publicly criticized before and after its passage by Congress and presidential signing, Sanford initially indicated he might not accept all of the funds allotted by the spending law to South Carolina. He was criticized by many Democrats and some moderate Republicans both in his state and outside who noted South Carolina's 9.5% unemployment rate (one of the highest in the country) and complained that Sanford wasn't doing enough to improve economic conditions in his state, which they felt could be alleviated by the stimulus money.
Party politics are more important than providing relief to his constituency.
- by jtdev1 June 24, 2009 11:52 AM PDT
So the Bill Clinton affair is ok too?
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No - that was completely different! You see Clinton was not a CRUSADING GOP CHRISTIAN TALIBAN HYPOCRITE. So it was NOT OK (according to the GOP Christian Taliban Fascists).
- Boy are people missing the forest for the trees on this one.
The 'admitting I'm having an affair with another woman' is like the new political epiphany for distracting the media or anyone looking too closely at something that can't possibly go away. This is what Republican's feed on, this is their absolute sustenance, they know no other existence than constant and concentrated political deception and manipulation to get what they want. They have cultivated a "free press" to serve just this instinct.
Who could possibly believed he hopped on to a plane to meet with this woman, apparently out of the blue, with absolutely no attempt to explain his absence in any way to anyone including his wife? What was this some kind of ridiculous effort by a guilty subconcious to force him to be exposed in this relationship by having to explain the unexplainable -- a mysterious unnannounced to anyone trip to Brazil? Assuming this was an act of pure uncontrollable lust, there was absolutely NO TIME for a contingency plan to cover his trail -- how long could it keep it up sitting in a passenger jet on a commuter flight to Brazil? What did he have, some kind of IV with a Viagra solution?
Yet, come out with an explanation like this and everyone just overlooks the obvious. Republican's are indeed the masters of implausible but mind-bogglingly relentless deception.
- Personally - I don't care who he's in bed with. But the voters who voted for him care - he ran on his image as a religious leader, following religious doctrine.
- Typical republican!
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- To whymayiask ... the difference is that Democrats don't try to use their moral superiority as a political club. If they were not so self-righteous then this would be a personal matter and not a major political event. Stop trying to divide America with the religious hypocrisy and then they can be left alone.
- Sorry, it is political for those who are saying it isn't political. Republicans created this PARTY OF MORALS, FAMILY VALUES, MONICA LEWINSKY EXPENSIVE CIRCUS. They can't now act like OH, IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE!
It's not about whether it happens to everyone.
It's that you pretend that you are above it....WHEN YOU ARE NOT!
- Sure, Democrats cheat BUT they don't to stop gays from marrying by saying "it threatens the sanctity of marriage."
- Sure Democrats do the same thing.Common sense would tell me that we are all human and we also shouldn't mix politics with religious beliefs. Since Sanford is a republican and I'm a evangelical he is forgiven.But...Bill Clinton and his whole family are going to HELL! HELL I tell you!So is his cat!
- Democrats do but they don't try to hold themselves up as holier than thou and try to make everyone live to standards they themselves cannot meet.
- CarlR609,
You just don't get it, do you? This IS a political issue, just like Clinton's affair was. Are you prepared to state that Clinton should have been left alone to deal with his infidelity in private?
The issue here is one of consistency. Republicans, if the tables were turned, would be screaming foul and demanding to know is even one cent of tax money went to this man's extra-marital sex-junket.
Interesting way to celebrate Father's Day...flying to South America to ask your mistress "who's your daddy?"
- You Repugs are a joke. Evil and nasty to everyone except the people you like. Nothing Christian ever came out of the Republican party.
- Posted by afmcalax June 24, 2009 12:08 PM PDT
"To whymayiask ... the difference is that Democrats don't try to use their moral superiority as a political club. If they were not so self-righteous then this would be a personal matter and not a major political event."
Oh, so Democrats and Liberals don't pretend to be Morally Superior?
Then what was Perez Hilton trying to do when he asked Miss Prejean the question about gayye marriage and gave her a "0" for a score?
There's NO hypocrisy on the liberal side, is there.
- by whatithink-2009 June 24, 2009 12:57 PM PDT
You Repugs are a joke. Evil and nasty to everyone except the people you like. Nothing Christian ever came out of the Republican party.
This post was directed at IThoughtItWasFunnyAsIs.
Trying to be mean to Michelle Obama to deflect the attention off of the guilty one.
The PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is
THE PARTY OF IF I DON'T LIKE YOU YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE but
IF I LIKE YOU I'LL DEFEND YOU TO THE END.
- SOOO IT TOOK only one message for somone to blame republicans. Do we have to list EDWARDS ,SPITZER etc etc etc . WHY WHY does someone blame POLITICS . Could it be that the demos TAX CHEATS etc cannot defend themselves LED BY CLINTON . What a crazy world ??
- You don't seem to get it. Bill Clinton IS the reason we taunt you. Bill Clinton was definitely not a Republican. He also NEVER ran on an "I'M MORALLY SUPERIOR TO YOU" platform EITHER.
- I'm loving the crocodile tears shed by this Republican.
"I'm...SNIFF...so sorry...SNIFF...BOO HOO!"
Whatever. Just another phony, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrite. How many tax dollars did we spend getting him some Argentinian tail?
The new Republican slogan: Laws and morals are for the little people!
- dubya_luvr June 24, 2009 2:24 PM PDT
"Just another phony, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrite."
That is the point.
Doesn't matter IF the whole world is doing it.
The issue is YOU do it too after taking on the HOLIER THAN THOU role.
- Oh ya? What about a blow job under the desk of the oval office? It appears your memory fails you when needed which of course is typical democrat.
- Yes, the "MORAL MAJORITY" is shown once again that their morals are that of animals. All talk. Banter and Ballyho. Gov. Sanford, despite all his Christan teachings could not love his wife. Probably because of her fundamentalism, but mainly because what she tried to make into was not what he was meant to be. To find an AFFAIR from so afar shows that Love has no boundaries. 10:1 odds this shameful wretched person, who calls himself governor of SC, will do his religion, state, party and family a favor and banish himself to Argentina.
- by Volksstimme June 24, 2009 3:15 PM PDT
Oh ya? What about a blow job under the desk of the oval office? It appears your memory fails you when needed which of course is typical democrat.
Another incoherent, meaningless post only meant to distract from the point: Republicans portray themselves as guardians of good morals, and then go on to cheat on their wives and lie about it...while spending our tax dollars on an international booty call.
The difference, once again: Democrats don't call themselves defenders of good morals. They prefer to keep government out of our bedrooms.
- I agree they do feel they are moraly superior. They like to preach morals to all of us, to bad they don't listen to their own preaching.
- Fox News Identifies Sanford As A Democrat
When does an embattled Republican suddenly become an embattled Democrat? When Fox News is covering him, of course.
The network known for its conservative leaning ran footage of Mark Sanford admitting to an extramarital affair on Wednesday with a Chyron (text at the bottom of the screen) identifying the South Carolina Republican -- near tears -- as a D, for Democrat.
But it's also worth adding that this is not the first time the network has misidentified a GOPer in the midst of acknowledging misconduct. When former congressman Mark Foley admitted to having problems with alcoholism -- after reports that he had behaved inappropriately with congressional pages -- Fox News also identified him as a (D) as in Democrat.
No wonder the wing-nuts hate the (D)s
- Fox News Identifies Sanford As A Democrat
When does an embattled Republican suddenly become an embattled Democrat? When Fox News is covering him, of course.
The network known for its conservative leaning ran footage of Mark Sanford admitting to an extramarital affair on Wednesday with a Chyron (text at the bottom of the screen) identifying the South Carolina Republican -- near tears -- as a D, for Democrat.
But it's also worth adding that this is not the first time the network has misidentified a GOPer in the midst of acknowledging misconduct. When former congressman Mark Foley admitted to having problems with alcoholism -- after reports that he had behaved inappropriately with congressional pages -- Fox News also identified him as a (D) as in Democrat.
No wonder the wing-nuts hate the (D)s
- by savdavid June 24, 2009 12:36 PM PDT
Sure, Democrats cheat BUT they don't to stop gays from marrying by saying "it threatens the sanctity of marriage."
They simply create outrageous rules like dont ask dont tell and the continue to court the vote in spite of doing nothing.
By the way Does Bill Clinton ring a bell? how about john edwards...typical MNC double standard...
