Political & Elections

Those poor kids.

Woodwork, would you advise a friend whose husband was cheating on her to throw the bum out? I wouldn't, necessarily. Infidelity is hard to overcome, but divorce is also difficult. We can't see into someone else's marriage, to know with certainty what is the right course.

But if the husband went on TV announcing that someone else was his soulmate? I'd be over in a flash to help my friend carry her hsuband's stuff out to the curb. I'd call the locksmith to change the locks. Some things cannot be forgiven.

Scumbags.  All of them.  

You are right, most pages are in high school when they serve, but the actual having sex with that boy moment, according to the FBI, only occurred when the romantic conquests were over 18 --like Lewinsky, but gay. Foley did however send mildly suggestive emails to pages as young as 16 as he seemed, like so many letches, to like his boys quite young.

The details of the Gingrich affair seems in dispute and I suppose that in part explains the difference in the public's reaction to his 1980 affair and divorce, and that of Edwards; in addition to the fact that Newt openly left his wife and then, during the break-up, when she was recovering from surgery from uterine cancer (she recovered well), he filed for divorce. Despicable and heartless to be sure but not even in the same league as what that rat Edwards did to his wife, friends and his supporters. Not to mention what he would have done to the country if he could have pulled it off: President Edwards.

I will say this, I would not have voted for the douchebag from North Carolina then, and I would not vote for Newt now...to me, old fashioned as I am, character matters.

Funny that you should mention Foley's sexual daliances with interns...that sort of sexual misconduct has gotten a lot of press since the mid 90's. It may be that it is worse if it is gay, but not to me. As I said, it is a tricky business arguing one side or the other has the biggest perverts...even involving interns.

As for Newt, what a heartless douche, still, far as I can tell it was not that he was cheating on his dying wife (now dead).

according to Wiki:
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26.[67][68] They had two daughters. In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther.[69][70] According to Battley, Gingrich visited her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery to discuss the details of their divorce. Six months after it was final, Gingrich wed Ginther in 1981.[71][72]

In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior; they continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal.[73] In 2000, Gingrich married Bisek shortly after his divorce from second wife Ginther. He and Callista currently live in McLean, Virginia

How bizarre it is to see anyone argue that it's the other side that has the worst perverts.

Fwiw, to me, the major domo of the freak parade is John Edwards. Barney was just blinded by love and sex, as was Sanford, but Edwards is the scum at the bottom of the pervert’s barrel. His wife dying of cancer, he impregnates a young woman on his payroll, gets another guy on his payroll to take the fall for him while running for president of the United States all the while lying and denying the whole thing for months & months in order to bamboozle American’s in order to become the leader of the free world and make fools of us all...including his dying wife. He almost became President, too.

Tell me, what is beneath that?

"Whoops, guess that is Democrat, not Republican. So in that case, he get a standing ovation, instead of having to quit like those loser Republicans."

busdriver, that was about 25 years ago.  The other examples are a tad more recent.

If you want to include a democrat, you don't have to look any further than Massa, in the district near Lee's, or how about Spitzer?  There must be something in the New York water.

If you want to go back in time, I still think Vetter takes the cake.  Diapers, really?

Yep, and no, "My boyfriend's running a brothel from our house, but gee, I had no idea!"

Whoops, guess that is Democrat, not Republican. So in that case, he get a standing ovation, instead of having to quit like those loser Republicans.

Don't we miss when Republican sex scandals involved gay men? This recent trending towards hetero mistakes lacks the pizazz we've seen in previous scandals.

I think he was a fool to resign. (Well, OK, he was also a fool to use his own name and email that picture. And who would think that dude was 39, seeing the picture? No one.) The scandal would have blown over.

He described himself as a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist. All true, in some sense. Once he was 39. Soon he will be a divorced lobbyist.

Good observation.

A few professionals, men and women, look good or at least OK until much older.

Ah! Technology!

It's not been a fantastic month or so for Congress.  

I cannot imagine what he was thinking ---but I can bet what he was thinking with...