I don't understand politicians. How can anyone with as much on the line as a congressman be thinking with his, umm, Johnson. Conservative, family values Senator Vitter of Louisana likes the prostitutes. A Senator from Nevada (also of the family values claims) had his parents attempt to buy off the husband of his lover. Mark Foley had an anti-gay voting record while asking male pages on Facebook, "So what are you wearing?"
Such impropriety is hardly partisan, as the slowly
erecting growing story of Congressman Weiner proves. And I don't think any politician of the past decade can top the chutzpah of John Edwards. His wife is dying of cancer and he's planning a wedding with the woman carrying his child
while planning a run for the White House???
There is one politician who fell to a sex scandal in recent years that
I genuinely feel sorry for: Mark Sanford. He was an up-and-coming Republican governor with Presidential aspirations. He was not a guy who couldn't keep his zipper up; he sincerely fell in love with a woman who was not his wife. Before publicly confessing he told his wife and even had (what had to be terribly awkward) conversations with his father-in-law.
Somehow Mark Sanford seems like a much more ethical guy than the rest of the lot.
I am not so sure I feel real bad for Sanford. He was a married man, so what was he doing putting himself in a position to fall in love with another woman? And then ask forgiveness from his wife? I don't get it. That said, I personally do not judge any of these men, including John Edwards (I think we lost an outstanding politician and champion of the poor). Same with the former Gov of New York....Spitzer. But tell me....why is David Vitter still in D.C., while others are crucifying Weiner? And the black politician who stole money and hid it in his freezer. He is still in D.C. (I am having trouble remembering some names tonight.) Rachel Maddow has an interesting theory going that makes a lot of sense, at least to me. She posits: IOKIYAR ... It's OK If You Are Republican. The Republicans are quick to pounce when a Democrat is caught in some sort of scandal, but they don't take much action or have much to say when it happens to one of their own. I guess I feel this way: if no laws were broken and any gov't. monies spent (i.e., phone, copier, etc.) are repaid.......let's let their private lives be just that...private and to be dealt with at home. The media is to blame for fanning these fires, and Andrew Breitbart should be ashamed and sued for threatening Weiner with the release of 'explicit' photos. I just find it all sad...and rue the day we lost Edwards and Spitzer, while others just as guilty in one way or another are allowed to carry on.
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