last week, Ensign, this week sanford. then, there was vitter, mark foley, larry craig, gingrich, giuliani, bob livingston, Henry Hyde, Jim West, bob barr...
aren't conservatives the last bastion embodying family values in the face of rising decadent liberal promiscuity or did i get this wrong?
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Pepe, how many times have you said,"But for the grace of God, go I"?
Poor Sanford. What a great time he must've had with Gabriella Sabatini.
On the other hand, your guy...well, 'nuff said.
Who is that woman the guv cavorted with? I need to see a pic before commenting on this story.
Pepe, how many times have you said,"But for the grace of God, go I"?
daily.
but then i don't use virtue as my bread & butter.
If this guy was high up enough in his respective party (the helm of the Governor's Assembly, or whatever the hell it's called), then he'll verbally be skewered, but based off precedent, he won't suffer much more then that.
On the one hand, it's always curious to see politicians do this, as Pepe notes, they carry theoretical virtues on their sleeves while screwing Argentinian reality on the side.
In doing this, as high profile a public official as they are, I wonder to myself (and in no way judging their behavior, but just wondering), "At the outset, did they honestly think they could slip away to Argentina for 3-5 days without the plebs noticing? And why not stop running for high public office if wanting to do this? Fine if you want to do this, it's your business: but don't act like you're surprised with the outcry when the actions become public."
Sanford used virtue as bread and butter, Pepe? Link, please.
rot - i didn't mean him specifically, but rather that schmamily values are the gop's bread & butter across the board.
Us dems couldn't give two shits about what people do privately, and certainly don't want to hear it from a crowd of finger-waggers swimming in debauchery.
mft - as a potential presidential candidate, he was about as high as they come. This is a really good catch.
The Southern Aristocracy, whether politically conservative or liberal, lives.
And by this I don't mean to suggest politicians ought to do the impossible and be demigods (true idiocy, no doubt). Just do your duty of intelligent[sic] public service (I'd argue for a couple terms, at most), be done with it, and move on. What we get in America nowadays is the deification of politicians, both the politicos and the people helping one another construct this myth. These guys and gals get cozy: although they often don't even know they are getting cozy, because the expectations they're readjusted to in D.C. sets them in a different context where it feels normal -- yes, they actually are convinced to convince themselves that they are, ahem, working. And they learn the ropes of D.C. and are arguably more "effective," but there's a danger of this turning into the noble and divine rule that the Enlightenment colonists intended this country reject from our get go.
So not to get too far away from the topic of this thread, the S.C. governor possibly got a bit too cozy. At least cozy enough to speak one way, and act another.
Pepe, sounds like you're painting with a broad brush. So because the extremists on the right gravitate toward the Repub party, everyone there needs to keep it in his pants?
That's bullshit equivalent to AA's saying Demacrotchs are bombthrowers.
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