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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
I'm sure much much worse has been done by Congressmen and women over the years. I'm not defending his behavior - it's stupid. It's immature, its all those adjectives you want to put on it. There's no excuse. But should infidelity exclude a member of congress from serving? No. That's something that he and his spouse need to deal with in their personal lives. It's not criminal. There's nothing in the rules of Congress about it. I don't believe it affects his ability to represent his constituents. I guess that's where we disagree. And that's fine. Nothin wrong with that. 
McCain was guilty of it, and no one had a problem with him running for president. Rudy Guiliani. Newt Gingrich. John Ensign. All adulterers. All kept their job and/or ran for or were elected to higher office. And for the record, I don't think their infidelities should have kept them from doing so.
The double standard is what's embarrassing. All this false outrage from Team R and the calls for him to resign are pure hypocrisy. |
Well, we can disagree, I think infidelity is criminal.
And I'm not standing by either party, when it comes to this kind of bonehead behavior, they should be ejected. But as far as "false outrage", I always see a LOT more of that from the Democrats. For example, they sure have been quiet about the Iraq war for the last few years. At least the Republicans aren't whining up a stink about Libya. Can you imagine what the situation would be like if a Republican president ordered a military intervention like this?
