IT'S..FINALLY.........OFFICIAL...!

[700IAM]

Um...I notice you only cite leftist freaks, but there are a whole bunch of rightist freaks who are bought and paid for by lobbyists. Your last comment might especially apply to Bush and Cheney.

No Argument Here.

 

[delldude]

Republicans Involved in Sex Scandals as Much as Democrats

From Garfield to Harding to Eisenhower to Reagan to Bush to Giuliani to Schwarzenegger


IF YOU took a public survey on who was most likely to have had an extramarital affair, [a] A Democrat, A Republican, or [c] Both, [a] would be the overwhelming choice.

But the correct choice is [c].

Of course, you wouldn’t know that from the U.S. mainstream media coverage. In 2003, the national and local media was all over the sexual assault allegation against NBA star Kobe Bryant - who said at one time he usually voted for Democrats - and ignored or downplayed cases against Republicans like California groper Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bush Jr. 1

That trend continued on the heels of covering former California Democratic Rep. Gary Condit’s affair with an intern to the point of nausea in 2002, while ignoring the case of former Florida Rep. Joe Scarborough, a Republican who was forced to resign after a female employee was found dead in his office. While Scarborough did not admit to having an affair with Lori Klausutis, there were several suspicious discrepancies in the investigation that pointed to a possible cover-up. 2

Moreover, the sudden resignation of the ambitious Republican from a lucrative Congress position, which came soon after Scarborough divorced his wife and Klausutis died, raised more than a few eyebrows. Condit, who was cleared of involvement in the death of Chandra Levy, was banished from sight, while Scarborough was handed his own national talk show on MSNBC. 3

During his 2003 campaign to steal the governorship of California, Schwarzenegger was pretty much given a free ride concerning his sexual scandals. Those scandals included one in which a Georgia woman accused the Terminator of sexually assaulting her in January 1997 in a storeroom of a former Planet Hollywood restaurant in Atlanta.

June told me she was standing in line for the restroom when Schwarzenegger, a former part-owner of the failed business, walked by and said he knew of another restroom where she wouldn’t have to wait in line.

“The others in line were talking to each other so I was the only one to follow him,â€￾ June said. “He pushed me into the storeroom, and I turned to joke that I must be in the wrong room. Then I was shocked that he held me down and assaulted me. He’s a powerful man, and his grip was so strong I couldn’t move.â€￾

When Schwarzenegger finished, he violently threw June sideways to the floor. “A few moments later, I heard him zip his pants,â€￾ June said. “Then, he directed at me, “Don’t even think about mentioning this; no one will believe you! He turned on his heels and left the room, closing the door, leaving me crumpled on the floor facing away from the door he had exited.â€￾

June said she was so shocked she didn’t call police or tell anyone. “I was involved in other matters at the time and just wanted to forget it and go on with my life,â€￾ she said.

But when Schwarzenegger announced he was running for governor of the country’s most populous state in 2003, June couldn’t get the nightmares out of her mind. She contacted me out of the blue after I wrote one of numerous columns about Schwarzenegger’s history of sexual harassment and said I was interested in hearing from others who experienced the Terminator’s “charms.â€￾

June had nothing to do with the campaign of recalled California Gov. Gray Davis. As she wrote in her first email to me, she said she had “been through emotional ‘Hell’ since the attack, including nightmares and fears I can’t get rid of. I see that liar’s smile everywhere I look today. It may, somehow, help me to finally talk about the terror of being attacked, and how it affected me and my life since. My speaking up will certainly wipe that big smile off his face.â€￾

So I told a Los Angeles Times reporter about June’s case, and that was one of many the newspaper investigated before writing an explosive article about Schwarzenegger’s sexual escapades, which included assaults as late as 2000 during his marriage with Maria Shriver. The Times didn’t have time to fully substantiate June’s story, which was made difficult by her not telling anyone at the time. June reported it to Georgia authorities in 2003, but by that time the statute of limitation on “aggravated sodomyâ€￾ expired. And she feared filing a civil lawsuit since Schwarzenegger, who had money to burn, was known for filing counter-lawsuits and even taking the assets of his victims.

Essentially, Schwarzenegger assaulted victims who dared to challenge him twice. What a guy. The LA Times reported numerous other incidents of Schwarzenegger’s long history of sexual assault, harassment, and infidelity in the story that ran a few days before the October 2003 recall election. 4

Unfortunately, most California voters bought the Republican lies that the article was part of Democratic dirty tricks - the Times’ editors said the investigation was independent and had begun weeks before. But perhaps the story will carry enough weight to help derail any national campaign Schwarzenegger might embark on in the future.

Schwarzenegger’s campaign responded to one accuser the usual way Republicans do - with another lie. The campaign sent an email to the media suggesting that Hollywood stuntwoman Rhonda Miller had an extensive criminal background. The Los Angeles Times reported that Miller did not - it was someone with the same name who had the criminal record. Miller said Schwarzenegger groped her on a movie set in 1991, pulling up her shirt and photographing and touching her breasts as she fought him. 5

Bush and Rove told their own lies about supposedly staying out of the recall effort and not hypocritically supporting the adulterer and criminal. Bush advisers met with Schwarzenegger as early as 2001 to get him to run for governor. Rove himself met with the groper in early 2003. Before the recall, proponents and representatives of potential Republican candidates met at the Los Angeles office of Gerry Parsky, Bush’s top California adviser, to discuss the effort. 6

So much for Republican family values.

The Bush affairs

There is no shortage of stories on the Internet about alleged extramarital affairs involving the Bush clan. But for whatever reason, including that the media was owned by conservatives, they were not popularly known.

Besides the Schoedinger case, Bush Jr. was linked to a 39-year-old Texas woman, Tammy Phillips. The former stripper was quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an 18-month affair with Bush that had ended in June 1999, while Bush campaigned for the presidency. 7

Phillips said she was introduced to then-Texas Gov. Bush by her Republican uncle in Dec. 1997 during a political event in Midland, Tx. She said that she and Bush, who married Laura Bush two decades before, made “passionate loveâ€￾ that very day.

However, that raised a red flag right there. I can’t see the attention-challenged Bush making “passionate loveâ€￾ to anyone, unless such was defined as lasting ten seconds or less. The Enquirer also said that the uncle disputed introducing Bush and Phillips, who I could not reach for comment.

According to the story, Bush and Phillips had sex eight more times, including a Best Western motel room in Houston. “It was simply sex,â€￾ she told the Enquirer. “It was the cheapest relationship you can imagine.â€￾ Now that I can believe.

Another story was told to me by a Texas woman who said Bush Jr. followed her around the HemisFair, an international festival in 1968 in San Antonio, when he was 22 and she was but 14.

“I was mature for my age,â€￾ she said. “He approached me and insisted I drink some beer. He apparently wanted me to get drunk. I told him I was underaged, and he said if the cops came, we wouldn’t get in trouble because of who he was. He knew I was underaged and finally left me alone.â€￾

Then there were the reports about the gay affair between Bush and former college roommate and fellow Bonesman Victor Ashe. That was covered in the first chapter of this book. 8

Who can forget Bush telling right-wing FOX broadcaster Brit Hume in 2003 that he had a “beautiful face?â€￾ That was a lie in itself – Hume looks more like a sour-faced bulldog. A Canadian newspaper also reported that in January 2004 Bush had nothing better to do at an international conference than tell Scott Reid, an aide to Prime Minister Paul Martin, that he had a “pretty faceâ€￾ and was a “good-looking guy. Better looking than my Scott [McClellan] anyway.â€￾ 9

Then, Betty Bowers pointedly and hilariously wrote about Bush’s overuse of the word, “fabulous.â€￾ The press reported most comments as a joke, but the frequency of such comments made one wonder – if not about Bush’s sexual orientation, then about his shallowness. 10

There were more stories about Bush’s brothers, Jeb and Neil.

Jeb Bush reportedly had an affair with Cynthia Henderson, a former Playboy bunny who he put in charge of the Florida Department of Management Services at a salary of $114,000 a year in 1999. Bush also appointed Henderson to run the Department of Business and Professional Regulation in 1999.

But he had to transfer her after a state ethics investigation into her accepting personal favors - including a private plane ride to the Kentucky Derby - from Outback Steakhouse, a company her office was supposed to regulate. Henderson also reportedly helped obtain state jobs for her nanny and the nanny’s boyfriend, and she was also sued by a state employee who alleged that Henderson grabbed him by the throat and threatened to choke him to death. 11

While some Bush advisors and newspapers called on Henderson to be fired, Bush refused and publicly denied in May 2001 that he had as much as been in a room alone with Henderson after mostly alternative media published the allegations. Unlike with Clinton, Condit, and other Democrats like potential 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart, the major media did not aggressively pursue the story and check out whether Bush was telling the truth. In former Sen. Hart’s case, the media even staked out his Washington home to report an alleged affair he had with model Donna Rice. As late as 1998, Hart called the media frenzy surrounding him “fascist.â€￾ 12

Contrast that treatment with what The Washington Post did after learning that Democratic Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening supposedly had sex with Jennifer Crawford, his unmarried chief of staff, while he was separated from his wife. The Post put two reporters to spy on Glendening and Crawford and reported in Sept. 2001 that Glendening eased out of Crawford’s home early on a few mornings that summer.

There were several problems with the story, such as there was no regulation prohibiting state employees from sleeping with each other, the Baltimore City Paper reported. “This was a sleazy intrusion into the governor’s personal life, sleazily delivered, and for sleazy motives,â€￾ Wiley Hall III wrote in the Baltimore publication. “The only ones who emerged from this affair with dignity intact were the governor, who had his aides declare ‘no comment’ and refused thereafter to be baited, and the people of Maryland, who reacted to the message with the collective yawn it deserved.â€￾ 13

Meanwhile, did The Post or any other media outlet put such time and resources into catching Jeb and Cynthia? Are you kidding? As Online Journal columnist Sally Slate wrote in July 2001, “Isn’t the silence of the so-called mainstream media - you know, the folks who could not get enough of ‘all Monica, all the time’ and who are now obsessing over ‘all Condit, all the time’ - interesting in light of all the Jeb-Henderson stories making the rounds in Florida? Of course, when it comes to Republicans, these are just ‘youthful indiscretions,’ after all Gov. Bush is under 50. If he were a Democrat, well, just ask Rep. Condit.â€￾ 14

Slate wrote about an anecdote that could easily be checked out - how Bush reportedly used $1,900 in taxpayers’ money to replace a bed that he said broke while his wife was away. 15

Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin, author of The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider, wrote in his Internet column, Al Martin Raw, that Jeb Bush had been videotaped by an FBI surveillance camera at the 2001 Super Bowl in Tampa with Henderson. Martin also wrote that Henderson was seeking money to keep quiet about the alleged affair. 16

Martin said Henderson also worked for Neil Bush in the 1980s when he was running a Florida real estate company and might know something about the Bush brothers that kept her employed in the cushy Florida job. Martin also wrote that all of the Bush brothers were known adulterers. 17

To help keep the media from doing serious investigation into this alleged affair, Jeb’s mafia reportedly threatened Vanity Fair, the supermarket tabloid The Globe, and WPOW-FM’s Bo Griffin, who received a “spookyâ€￾ call from the governor’s office demanding to know her source. Most media, however, needed no such calls to stay away from the story. 18

But the media could not overlook the obvious affairs of Neil Bush - check this in the New York Daily News from Bush’s deposition in his divorce case against former wife Sharon Bush in 2003:

Neil Bush: “I had sexual intercourse with perhaps three or four, I don’t remember the exact number, women, at different times. In Thailand once, I have a pretty clear recollection that there was one time in Thailand and in Hong Kong.â€￾
Marshall Davis Brown, Sharon Bush’s attorney: “And you were married to Mrs. Bush?â€￾
Bush: “Yes.â€￾
Brown: “Is that where you caught the venereal diseases?â€￾
Bush: “No.â€￾
Brown: “Where did you catch those?â€￾
Bush: “Diseases plural? I didn’t catch...â€￾
Brown: “Well, I’m sorry. How ... how many venereal diseases do you suffer from?â€￾
Bush: “I’ve had one venereal disease.â€￾
Brown: “Which was?â€￾
Bush: “Herpes.â€￾
Brown: “Did you pay them for that sex?â€￾
Bush: “No, I did not.â€￾
Brown: “Pick them up in a sushi house?â€￾
Bush: “No. ... My recollection is, where I can recall, they came to my room.â€￾

Sharon Bush also said that Maria Andrews’s young child was Neil’s, a claim Andrews denied. Neil Bush and Andrews got engaged in 2003. 19

The press at least mentioned reports of Bush Sr. having a long-time affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald, a former aide that Bush reportedly helped rise through the ranks. Among those printing the allegation in 1988 or 1992 were The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Daily News, New York Post, and Columbia Journalism Review. 20

The right-wing site NewsMax even said that Clinton foe Linda Tripp knew about and spread the Bush-Fitzgerald connection. “To the Bushes [Tripp] is the one who exposed their own scandalous behavior and subsequent cover-up,â€￾ NewsMax wrote. 21

For some odd reason that came down to wimping out, Democrats never capitalized on these affairs. The 1988 presidential campaign of Democrat Michael Dukakis actually fired Donna Brazile for merely trying to get reporters to look into the reports that Bush Sr. had an affair. Meanwhile, Republican operatives were rewarded financially for spreading such rumors about prominent Democrats. And Democrats kept scratching their heads, wondering why they lost elections when they were afraid to really fight back.

The affairs of Reagan and the conservatives who went after Clinton

Ronald Reagan was revered by conservatives - even to the sickening point of naming a building and airport after him in Washington, D.C. But how many know about Reagan’s extramarital affairs, including how he reportedly had sex with mistress Christine Larson as Nancy Reagan gave birth to daughter Patti? Or that he was regularly known to engage in extramarital sex with various Hollywood wannabe actresses? 22

How many know about Nancy Reagan alleged intimate affair with Frank Sinatra in the White House? 23

Remember how much the media played up Monica Lewinsky’s blow jobs and Paula Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton in the 1990s, while ignoring or downplaying extramarital activities by the hypocritical Republicans who served on Clinton’s impeachment committee like Henry Hyde and Bob Barr?

Hyde, who chaired that committee, had an affair of his own for about five years with the married Cherie Snodgrass in the late 1960s. Hyde, who was in his 40s and a married Illinois state representative with four kids when he had the affair, didn’t deny the relationship. But he said, “The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions.â€￾ Of course, for Republicans, anything they do under age 50 falls under the category of “youthful indiscretions.â€￾ 24

Snodgrass’ husband, Fred, told Salon.com that Hyde was a “hypocrite who broke up my family.â€￾ Cherie declined to talk to Salon, but her daughter said, “She knows she wasn’t his first [mistress], and she wasn’t his last. She hates his anti-abortion stuff and all the family values stuff. She thinks he’s bad for the country, he’s too powerful, and he’s hypocritical.â€￾ 25

Barr, the hypocritical author of “The Defense of Marriage Act,â€￾ had an affair while still married to Gail Barr and married Jeri Dobbin a month after the divorce became final in 1986, according to testimony in the divorce case. Neither Barr nor Dobbin denied having the affair when asked about it repeatedly. 26

Then in 1992, Barr licked whipped cream off the chests of “two buxom womenâ€￾ during a Leukemia Society charity event. The Washington Post asked him if he would “engage in such conduct if he had it do to all over again.â€￾

“Heavens no!â€￾ he replied. “It was a charity event ... and people were having a good time.â€￾ 27

But Barr reportedly did “engage in such conduct,â€￾ right during the time when he piously criticized Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. Kevin Jeys of the Chico Examiner wrote that Barr slipped away from his wife in 1998 to lick whipped cream off the breasts of another lap dancer at a D.C. bachelor’s party. This came after Barr told The Post he would not do that again. 28

Contrast the way Republicans reacted to Clinton’s affairs with that of fellow Republican Congressman Bob Livingston, who they chose as House Speaker in late 1998, only to learn Livingston had affairs of his own. CNN reported that Livingston’s confession, which only came after publications like Roll Call reported Livingston’s affairs, “that he had been unfaithful to his wife drew first gasps, and then a standing ovation and declarations of support from Republicans at a closed-door caucus.â€￾ 29

So the message was if you have an affair and you’re a Democrat, you get impeached. But if you have an affair and you’re a Republican, you get applause and support.

Other conservative hypocrites who castigated Clinton for sins they committed themselves included Congressman Dan Burton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, presidential candidate Bob Dole, and Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Burton, who once called Clinton a “scumbagâ€￾ in the midst of the public sexual witch hunt, admitted during the 1998 proceedings against Clinton that he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child out of wedlock when he was a state senator in the 1980s. Burton said on PBS, “This is something that happened a long time ago.....The boy and the mother and my wife and my family and I have all reached an agreement about this a long time ago.â€￾ 30

Well, isn’t that special? So we should all forget about Republican affairs as long as the parties involved reach a private agreement?

Gingrich was known to force oral sex with interns and reportedly cheated on two of his three wives. He even served his first wife with divorce papers while she lying in a hospital bed fighting cancer so that he could marry a mistress. 31

Then, Gingrich divorced wife number two, reportedly for Callista Bisek, a much younger Congressional employee, and had sex with her in his Capitol Hill office during the Clinton witch hunt. 32

As columnist Robert Scheer pointed out, “As House speaker, Gingrich had ultimate power over the woman’s career, raising questions of sexual harassment.â€￾ 33

Gingrich married Bisek a few months after divorce number two was finalized in 2000. He got his second marriage annulled by the Catholic Church, even though Gingrich was not Catholic - Bisek was. That meant that the church declined to formally recognize the 19 years of Gingrich’s second marriage. How’s that for family values?

Dole, who lost big-time to the “Big Dogâ€￾ in 1996, reportedly had an affair with a woman who was not his wife in 1968. The Washington Post wrote that the paper and Time both interviewed the woman at length, then decided not to run the story before the 1996 election. The National Enquirer ran the story, instead. 34

The late Thurmond, for his part, had sex with the late Carrie Butler in 1925, when he was 22 and she was a 16-year-old African-American housekeeper in Thurmond’s home. The act wasn’t a crime back in the early 20th century, but it would be now. Thurmond reportedly helped pay for the college education of his part-black daughter, Essie Mae Washington Williams, even as he referred to African-Americans as “niggersâ€￾ and became one of the country’s leading proponents of segregation.

That action was deceitful in more ways than the obvious hypocrisy; if white America had heard about Thurmond’s black child, his political career would have been over. While articles appeared about the tie as early as 1972, Thurmond, Williams, and Butler kept quiet about the matter until Williams spilled the beans in 2003. 35

In addition to that deceit, according to AmericaHeldHostile.com, Thurmond had an extramarital affair of his own when he was 88. 36

What family people these Republicans were.

Republican cheaters go way back in history

The list of prominent Republicans who cheated on their spouses went way back in American history.

James Garfield, who was president from 1880 to 1884, reportedly had an extramarital affair with Lucia Calhoun in the 1860s. His wife, Lucretia, discovered the liaison and made him choose between staying married or getting a divorce. Garfield chose to say married. 37

Warren Harding was more than the Republican president who presided over the scandalous, bribe-taking Teapot Dome administration in the early 1920s that ranked with the Bush Jr. one for the most corrupt in American history. Harding had numerous extramarital affairs, including with Nan Britton, who was 31 years younger than him. In fact, Britton bore Harding a child one year before he won the presidency. 38

Harding and Britton had sex in White House closets, bathrooms, and offices, even as Harding’s wife, Florence, remained in other parts of the White House. 39

Britton was not the only extramarital relationship that Harding, who died in office of a heart attack, had in the White House. In fact, Carrie Phillips, who had been a German sympathizer during World War I, attempted to blackmail Harding and was paid hush money by the Republican Party. 40

During World War II, Dwight Eisenhower allegedly began an affair with Kay Summersby, a young British woman who became Eisenhower’s personal secretary. Summersby confirmed the affair in her 1975 book, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. 41

No less than Christian evangelist Billy Graham, a close ally of Republicans like Nixon and Bush, allegedly took home a prostitute while married, according to Marshall Frady’s book, Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness. In 1952, Graham and another evangelist had dinner with two prostitutes in Paris, and each one took one home, Frady wrote. Graham told a friend that nothing happened - he got cold feet and fled after the prostitute took off her clothes. 42

Other conservative evangelists, such as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, followed through with affairs. 43

Nelson Rockefeller, vice president to Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, died in 1979 at the age of 70 while allegedly having sex with Megan Marshak, his 27-year-old secretary. In his will, Rockefeller reportedly left Marshak the deed to a New York townhouse and $50,000 in cash. 44

The affair of another Republican mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, was covered more by the media. Giuliani started seeing Judith Nathan while still married to his second wife, Donna. After another divorce in 2002, Guiliani married Nathan in 2003. 45

Millionaire druggie and liar Rush Limbaugh allegedly cheated on two of his three wives. Another rabid-right talk show host, Laura Schlessinger, reportedly has also engaged in extramarital affairs. For more on these affairs and other sex scandals involving Republicans, including Tom DeLay, George Will, and Dick Armey, see the sites mentioned in the footnote at the bottom of this chapter. 46

Some Republicans actually do time for sex crimes

Occasionally, some Republicans actually get caught in a serious sex crime.

Quick now, has anyone heard of Randy Ankeney? He was a rising star in Colorado Republican circles who held a $63,000 position in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development until he was arrested in 2001 and accused of trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through the Internet. 47

Police said Ankeney even warned the girl he’d ruin her life if she told anyone. Does that sound familiar? That’s how many of these Republicans keep their affairs quiet - they threaten a bunch of people.

Another 17-year-old girl said Ankeney sexually assaulted her while working on a political campaign. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2003. 48

How about Parker J. Bena, a Virginia Republican activist who proudly cast one of his state’s electoral vote for Bush in 2000, being indicted for possessing child pornography in 2001? Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. 49

Long-time Virginia Republican fund-raiser Richard Delgaudio, 50, was more fortunate. He only received two years probation in 2003 after pleading guilty to taking sexually-related photos of a 16-year-old girl in a motel room. In 2001, Delgaudio was picked up by police in Baltimore’s Patterson Park, an area police said was known for prostitution. 50

Does Republican Marty Glickman, one of those rabid dog conservative talk radio commentators in Florida who was arrested in 2001 and charged with giving drugs like LSD and money to underaged girls in exchange for sex, ring a bell? 51

Anyone hear of Kevin T. Coan, a Republican who formerly directed the St. Louis Election Board? He was charged in 2001 with trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl in cyberspace. As of 2003, his case hadn’t been resolved. 52

Then there was Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who was sentenced in 2003 to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged girls and violating their civil rights. It’s more likely you’ve heard of him since this case received ample media coverage. 53

Another case that got some attention involved Beverly Russell, a leader in the South Carolina Republican Party and the local Christian Coalition who campaigned for presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who allegedly molested his step-daughter, children-drowner Susan Smith. 54

I’ve been told that numerous Religious Right nuts read sexual material under the guise of knowing what’s in it so they can keep it from their children. Many Religious Rightists also believe a man can have sex with his wife anytime he pleases, whether she wants to or not. Some would call that rape, but I’m sure these nuts have another word for it.

Did Bennett pay for a dominatrix’s services?

Finally, there was Bill Bennett, the hypocritical, self-proclaimed morality czar who was one of Clinton’s harshest critics for having an affair. According to Jack Hughes, webmaster of www.evilGOPbastards.com, and another source, Bennett hired a Las Vegas dominatrix, essentially paying money for sexual services. Reporters from nationally-known newspapers and magazines have interviewed Leola McConnell, or “Mistress Lee,â€￾ but have not been able to obtain written proof like receipts or emails to verify the story. One source said there supposedly was a video tape of them floating around, but they hadn’t seen it.

In an email, McConnell didn’t deny that Bennett was a client or talking to reporters about it. “Contact [the reporters], why are you asking me? That’s the best way to find out if it’s true or not,â€￾ she wrote.

I contacted some reporters who allegedly spoke with McConnell. One said the allegation could be true, but McConnell did not produce any evidence to help substantiate the tie, such as receipts and correspondence.

As Joshua Green, who broke the story about Bennett’s gambling habit, wrote in The Washington Monthly in 2003, “no person can be more rightly credited with making morality and personal responsibility an integral part of the political debateâ€￾ than Bennett. As drug czar under Bush Sr. and education secretary under Reagan, Bennett continually shoved his high-handed view of morality into our faces. He wrote books on morals and virtues and made millions speaking about the subject across the country, usually pointing the finger at Democratic excesses and ignoring sins committed by Republicans. 55

Then came Green’s 2003 story that Bennett had spent millions gambling in Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos since at least the early 1990s. Suddenly, Bennett and his poker buddies who defended his excesses - Robert Bork, Antonin Scalia, and William Rehnquist - didn’t look so moral or credible to many people.

The point of this essay is not to say Republicans are more likely to commit an extramarital affair than Democrats; I believe the truth is closer to being that they are equally likely. The media is full of examples of Democrats embroiled in sexual scandals; I’m just trying to balance the scales a little. I find Republican sexual scandals more appalling than Democratic transgressions after all the Republicans did to expose Clinton’s private life - even spending $100 million of tax money - in the 1990s.

I’m not excusing Clinton - he should have just said no comment and not gone on TV to say he did not have sex with Monica. We don’t know what kind of agreement the Clintons had - perhaps they secretly worked out a French-style arrangement in which Bill and Hillary were free to engage in extramarital encounters. Don’t expect to read that in Hillary’s book. Ultimately, it was none of our business, but the Republicans forced this on us. So Democrats should turn the tables whenever they get the chance.

If any issue resonates with the average American, it’s sex. All those issues the Democratic leadership wants to play up, like Social Security and health care, are important and good to hit with a targeted audience. But they are, frankly, boring to the average TV-watching American. Sex is not, as we learned in the Clinton years.

Some conservatives have written me, calling my exposes of Republicans’ hypocritical sexual lives “sleazyâ€￾ and other more colorful terms. As I have long said, many far-right Republicans can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

When I first tried out for my high school basketball team in my sophomore year, I was taller than most of the other players. But many competitors for the team neutralized my height advantage by elbowing me in the gut and pushing me to the floor. At first, I didn’t fight back in this underhanded way - and I failed to make the varsity squad in my junior year and had to play on the junior varsity team.

Then, I learned to throw elbows and push back. And I made the varsity team my senior year.

The moral: Don’t be surprised and cry foul when your opponent plays by the rules you devise.

No source...no credibility.

 

[700UW]

Here are the sources, happy now?

Footnotes

1. The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush, Chapter I
2. Truthout, Jan. 6, 2002, http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.07B.Klausutis.3.htm
3. Democratic Underground, March 25, 2002, http://www.democraticunderground.com/artic...03/25_tape.html
4. Los Angeles Times, Oct. 2, 2003, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wo...-home-headlines
5. Los Angeles Times, Dec. 9, 2003, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gr...-home-headlines
6. Buzzflash, Aug. 8, 2003, http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/08/08_recall.html
7. National Enquirer, Sept. 1, 2000, http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/ne...instanceid=5978
8. Tennessee Independent Media Center, Dec. 22, 2003, http://www.tnimc.org/newswire/display/1131/index.php
9. The Globe and Mail, Canada, Jan. 16, 2004, http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/...uery=scott+reid
10. “Is President Bush a Homo?†BettyBowers.com, Jan. 2004, http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html [NOTE: This is a satirical site.]
11. The Washington Post, May 2001, www.washingtonpost.com
12. Nando Times, 1998, http://www.nandotimes.com/
13. Baltimore City Paper, Sept. 5, 2001, http://www.citypaper.com/2001-09-05/urban.html
14. Online Journal, July 2001, http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Jeb%20Bush
15. Ibid., http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dem-weekly/message/60
16. Al Martin Raw, 2001, http://www.almartinraw.com
17. Ibid., 2001, http://www.almartinraw.com
18. Democrats.com, May 2001, http://www.democrats.com
19. New York Daily News, Jan. 1, 2004, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/sto...8p-132934c.html
20. Columbia Journalism Review, Nov. 1992, http://archives.cjr.org/year/92/6/jennifer.asp
21. NewsMax, Feb. 12, 2001, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2.../12/55616.shtml
22. Chico Examiner, Oct. 29, 1998, http://www.chicoexaminer.com/col_KJ/col_KJ_19981029.html
23. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Sinatra by Kitty Kelley, Eonline, Oct. 27, 1997, http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1996,00.html
24. Salon.com, Sept. 16, 1998, http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html
25. Ibid., Sept. 16, 1998, http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html
26. CNN, Jan. 12, 1999, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/12/flynt.01/
27. The Washington Post, Feb. 10, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/polit.../barr021098.htm
28. Chico Examiner, Dec. 18, 1998, http://www.chicoexaminer.com/col_KJ/col_KJ_19981218a.html
29. CNN, Dec. 17, 1998, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/199.../livingston.02/
30. PBS, Sept. 8, 1998, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-...burton_9-8.html
31. Chico Examiner, Oct. 29, 1998, http://www.chChico Examinericoexaminer.com/col_KJ/col_KJ_19981029.html
32. Buzzflash, May 13, 2002, http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002...3_Gingrich.html
33. Los Angeles Times, Aug. 17, 1999, http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/99...umns/081799.htm
34. The Washington Post, “Bob Dole’s Affair,†http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/polit...frenzy/dole.htm
35. The Black Commentator, Dec. 19, 2002, http://www.blackcommentator.com/21_re_print.html
36. “The Republican Wife-Cheating Hall of Fame,†America Held Hostile, http://www.americaheldhostile.com/cheating.html
37. National First Ladies’ Library, Lucretia Garfield biography, http://www.firstladies.org/Bibliography/Lu...LBioSketch.htm; Champaign [Ill.] News-Gazette, http://www.news-gazette.com/starr-report/r...pres/html/d.htm
38. Warren Harding biography, Knowledgerush, http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/aut...=Warren+Harding
39. PageWise, “Warren G. Harding and Political Scandal,†http://ma.essortment.com/warrengharding_rkpr.htm
40. Warren Harding biography, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, http://www.americanpresident.org/history/warrenharding/
41. “Presidential Sex Scandals,†Who2, http://www.who2.com/hailtothesheets.html
42. Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness, Marshall Frady, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., p. 169-170, http://members.fortunecity.com/omegatimes/...ersecution4.htm
43. Televangelists’ Hall of Shame, http://members.freespeech.org/boblarson/halosham.htm
44. Ishi Press, “Where was Megan Marshak when Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller Died?†http://www.ishipress.com/marshak.htm
45. New York Daily News, May 25, 2003, http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriend...72p-79053c.html
46. See http://www.americaheldhostile.com/cheating.html, http://www.geocities.com/blackntan43/REXP.html, and http://www.comedyontap.com/features/congress.html. Connie Cook Smith has also covered the excesses of Republicans, such as Katrina Leung, a California Republican fund-raiser who sold secrets to the Chinese while working as an FBI informant and reportedly had extramarital affairs with two FBI agents, on her blog at http://www.conniescomments.blogspot.com.
47. Denver ABC-TV affiliate, Aug. 9, 2001, http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/910489/detail.html
48. The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan 10, 2003, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/gazette/
49. The Political Graveyard’s Index to Politicians, http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html
50. The Washington Post, April 24, 2003, http://www.loper.org/~george/archives/2003/Apr/869.html
51. “The Top Ten Conservative Idiots,†Democratic Underground, April 23, 2001, http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10...10_2001_15.html
52. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 3, 2003, http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/help.nsf/...st?OpenDocument
53. The Middletown Press, June 14, 2003, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=...10856&rfi=6
54. Los Angeles Times, Aug. 1, 1995, http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/95...umns/080195.htm
55. The Washington Monthly, June 2003, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/...een.html#byline

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Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats
Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com
The sexual antics of President Bill Clinton have been a dangerous tool in the Republican campaign arsenal, used to the fullest possible extent, but what have they been up to all these years?


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(SALEM, Ore.) - "He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones." It seems that old adage may be lost on the confused mass that we call modern society. The Grand Old Party, once known for controversial abolitionists, has become the moral party of today, or so their elected leaders will tell you.

As we evolve as a nation, too many people seem to be clinging to ideologies that make little sense, fighting against a woman's right to abortion while demanding that schools not teach children sex education or instruct them in the deadly virus, AIDS. It creates a vicious circle when we fight ourselves, and deny education to those who need it most.

Our nation spent more tax money conducting Ken Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, than they did in the investigation of the September 11th 2001 attacks on the United States. Many Americans fail to see the logic behind this.

Now Oregon's Governor stands at risk, as a right wing radio pundit named Lars Larson levels an accusation against Kulongoski that could mean he could not be a lawyer in Oregon again. Larson says that Kulongoski had the goods on Goldschmidt years ago. Sources are reporting that he could have known about what has become known as the Goldschmidt scandal, as early as 1994.

Kulongoski walked angrily out of a press conference Tuesday, after a TV reporter asked him about the former governor's involvement with the teenage babysitter.

Perhaps the Governor is guilty of having known something he didn't tell. He stated that he is not, but if he is, he may lose his right to have a license to practice law. That would be a real burn if you were Ted Kulongoski, and quite a feather in the cap of Lars Larson, no doubt about it.

As Lars Larson is totally political in his pursuits and ambitions, we thought it would be interesting to offer perspective by determining just how many Republican lawmakers and officials have endured similar scrutiny in recent years for sexual perversions, extramarital affairs, etc. It is a hard number to pinpoint, it just depends on the number of years you account for.

As a subject, it was important enough to see an impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, so fair seems fair.

Then we ran into a problem with the idea of naming these scandals and their Republican perpetrators; there are so many they would hardly fit on the page. Using data from "Moral Values," these citations are otherwise attributed to the original agencies. Here is a partial list of names of serious problems related to GOP movers and shakers.

Randal David Ankeney is the Republican activist who was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He was charged with six counts related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Ankeny has also been accused of sexually assaulting another girl. Source: Denver ABC Article

Jim Bakker is the infamous televangelist who worked with Pat Robertson at Robertson's Christian Broadcasting network. Sources at the time, and then later Jim himself, confirmed that he committed adultery with Jessica Hahn, and then used charitable donations to pay her hush money. Fellow televangelists have stated in the past that they believe he's gay. Bakker was indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering.

Bob Barr is the Republican Congressman from Georgia who sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." He was married three times, and paid for his second wife's abortion (she also suspected he was cheating on her). he failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife and was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.

Parker J. Bena was a Republican activist and a key player in the campaign to elect George W. Bush as President. Bena was charged and later pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and lying to the FBI. Bena reportedly told the feds that he had received an unsolicited e-mail containing pictures of children (some as young as three years old) performing various sexual acts, but agents learned that he had in fact voluntarily entered a number of child pornography websites and downloaded the images himself. This is said to have involved acts with children as young as 3 years old, on his home computer. Parker J. Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Source: DemocracyUnderground.com

Louis Beres is a past chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. Three of his family members accuse him of molesting them as children, when they were pre-teens. In an Editor and Publisher article, in August 2006, Beres confessed to the accusations facing him. The Portland Mercury

John Bolton, President George W. Bush's highly contested appointee ambassador to United Nations is suspected of forcing his former wife to be involved in unsavory group sex acts. Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton's first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato's Retreat, the popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: Many attribute the success Jim Bunn experienced in great part to support from the Christian Coalition. Congressman Jim Bunn won his congressional seat, and then sources say that he immediately ditched his wife, the mother of his five children, and married a staffer. Jim Bunn is said to have put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500, thereby becoming one of the biggest waste and spend conservatives from the state of Oregon. Source: Conservative Babylon

President of the United States George W. Bush, was accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later died in a questionable case of suicide. Bush was also accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper, who was quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999. Another serious question involves statements from the wife of Red Blount, whom Bush campaigned for, while possibly A.W.O.L from the Air National Guard at age 26. She stated that he was "all over their 14 year old daughter." Multiple Sources

Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while on an Asian business trip. Overshadowing the sex scandal at the time was a business scandal. Neal Bush keeps a low profile and is not seen in public very often. He also has questionable ties to the security of the World Trade Towers in the September 11th 2001 attacks on the United States. Source: Washington Post article

Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-California), has been called the champion of the Christian Coalition and its "family values." But in reality, Ken Calvert was sued as an alimony "deadbeat dad" by his ex-wife who said, "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In 1993, Calvert was caught by police officers receiving oral sex from a prostitute. He attempted to flee the scene but apparently couldn't move fast enough to get away from police, and was arrested.

Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). In 1995, Chenoweth had denied having an affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review. In 1998 she called (in a campaign ad) for Bill Clinton's resignation saying, "I believe that personal conduct and integrity do matter". Days later she admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed.

Mark Foley, Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages via an instant messenger program. The conversations included his asking a sixteen-year-old "stud" whether his penis was erect and requesting that he take out and measure his penis. The cover-up involved Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Eighth Congressional District and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Illinois Fourteenth District.

Newt Gingrich, well established crusader against legislation that assists women and the poor, has married three times while spouting Christian values the entire time. Newt Gingrich's campaign worker Anne Manning, admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife, essentially placing Newt in the exact same position President Clinton had to endure when Gingrich and his cronies maintained their pressure over the Lewinski incident. Gingrish informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments. Salon article

Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut was sentenced by a state court to serve 37 years for forcing two little girls to perform acts of oral sex on him in his Waterbury City Hall office. While investigating municipal corruption, the FBI discovered phone records and pictures of Giordano with a prostitute named Guitana Jones, as well as with her 10-year-old niece and her 8-year-old daughter. 37-years is a very long prison sentence, many said at the time that it still wasn't enough. Source: NBC Article/Newsday Article

Rudy Giuliani, New York Mayor and Republican Presidential Candidate, is reported as having had an adulterous affair that failed to stay out of the public light. Groups also cite Giuliani for pocketing an $80,000 fee for speaking at a charity benefit for tsunami aid which raised only $60,000 for the victims themselves. Critics of Giuliani say there will be more revelations about his character and past as his presidential aspirations gain momentum.

Matthew Glavin, president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, was a big player in the Clinton Impeachment proceedings, and he has spearheaded a good number of anti-homosexual jihads. He has been arrested multiple times for public indecency, sources report, one time it was for fondling the crotch of the police officer who was arresting him at a national park. Opponents say his actions were treated "with kid gloves" and therefore inadequate.

Neal Horsley is a political figure of the far right, and the author of a website devoted to his advocacy of militant pro-life, secessionist, and anti-gay views. He has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. He admitted on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, that he's had sex with mules. He put photographs on his Web site of naked men engaging in homosexual acts and a nude woman engaging in bestiality amid shots of grotesquely maimed fetuses. Drug dealer convicted of possession of hashish with intent to sell. He calls for "the establishment of a new government, one that can obey God's plan for government."

Lewis "Scooter" Libby is the former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted but recently exempted from having to serve his sentence by the President. In 1996, "Scooter" Libby published a novel containing bizarre sexual content, including bestiality and pedophilia. Other high level White House officials were said to have been involved in the book that Libby published.

Rush Limbaugh is the infamous talk show pundit and advocate of moral values who has been divorced three times. A staunch anti-drug crusader, Limbaugh is in reality, a 30-pill a day drug addict. He also takes questionable trips to locations where many western men travel to buy sex under shady circumstances. It was a return from one of those possibly sordid journeys when one of his drug arrests occurred. Limbaugh was returning from the Dominican Republic. The Rush Limbaugh sex tourism story could seriously lead to his downfall if any of the allegations were founded. "Turnabout is most certainly fair play," is how one news agency worded it. Then there is the report of Rush’s use of Viagra while he was single. Sources: correntewire.com/The Smoking Gun.com

Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee’s Marriage Protection act. He was divorced in April 2005 because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that “Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee.â€￾

Joseph M. McDade, 75, was issued a summons on a charge of exposure of his sexual organs, a misdemeanor that carries up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The longtime Pennsylvania Republican congressman who served for 36 years in the House and now works for a Washington lobbying firm, has been accused of exposing his private parts to two women at a beach resort on Sanibel Island. Source: DKOS diary

Bill O'Reilly is the highly controversial right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News known for the "O'Reilly factor" and the "no spin zone." O'Reilly is highly contested over his ability to polarize people along political lines. Bill O'Reilly has been sued for sexual harassment by his producer. The female Fox News producer named Andrea Mackris filed a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. He settled with the producer for an undisclosed amount of money.

Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.) resigned in 1995 under a threat of public senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual harassment. A pro-choice Republican who often rallied for women's rights, Packwood let down generations of supporters, and is a good example of the complexity of human nature, since he supported legislation to protect women’s rights during his 25 years in office while simultaneously making unwanted sexual advances toward many different women. In the end, 19 women testified to outrageous behavior which was mostly carried out when Packwood was drunk. The most damaging was the charge of a former staff woman who was only 17 years old at the time. Packwood might still have survived the challenge had he responded with his former talent for compromise, but he was defiant and confrontational, trying to bully his way through the situation and alienating even his friends, it is reported.

George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife, while serving as president of Hillsdale College, which "emphasizes the importance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while recognizing the importance of religion for the maintenance of a free society." The scandal broke out in 1999 when the wife of George Roche IV, Lissa Jackson Roche, claimed to have had an affair spanning 19 years with her husband's father. Shortly after, she was found dead in the college's arboretum with a handgun, and the death was ruled a suicide. Following his resignation in November 1999, Roche left public life and moved to Colorado.

Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, is currently a conservative talk show host. He resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."

Ed Schrock was a two-term Republican Congressman, with a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Co-sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids, he withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting gay sex were circulated. The Virginia Pilot reported in October 2000 that Schrock favored ending the Clinton administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military, BlogActive noted. "He supports asking enlistees whether they have had homosexual experiences in an effort to try to keep gays from serving. 'You're in the showers with them, you're in the bunk room with them, you're in staterooms with them,' Schrock said."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host, is known for promoting family values. She is estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied. She espouses saving oneself for marriage, and admits to having had sex before she was married. She opposes adultery, but has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man. She opposes divorce, but she is divorced and remarried, and has posed for nude photos which are available online.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the hit Hollywood movie actor turned politician and California Republican governor, has admitted during a Oui interview, having sex with a 16-year old when he was 28. Today men who commit similar acts in Oregon are branded sex offenders and placed in correctional facilities. At the time of the Oui story, Schwarzenegger, then 29, was appearing in "Pumping Iron," a documentary on the bodybuilding circuit. In the Q&A with Manso from Oui Magazine, today's California Governor spoke about his sex life then, his drug usage, and his belief that men "shouldn't feel like fags just because they want to have nice-looking bodies." Source: Oui

Jean Schmidt is a Republican legislator from Ohio. Though not herself implicated, she employed a campaign manager named Joe Brauns in her 2005 election who once wrote an article condemning gay men for running sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile called for "submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have hot wax dripped on them. Source: DKOS Diary

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, exposed in 1986 fellow Assemblies of God minister Marvin Gorman, who was having an affair with one of his parishioners. The following year, Swaggart then exposed Jim Bakker's sexual indiscretions and soon after appeared on the Larry King Show stating that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ." As a retaliatory move, Marvin Gorman hired a private-detective to follow Swaggart. During his investigation, the detective found Swaggart in a Jefferson Parish, Louisiana motel on Airline Highway with prostitute Debra Murphree and took pictures as proof of the tryst.Source: Wikipedia

Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue, was involved in the Terri Schiavo protests. He was once imprisoned for sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel is gay; his daughter Tila had sex outside of marriage, became pregnant, had a miscarriage - she is no longer welcome in his home; his daughter Ebony had 2 children outside of wedlock and became Muslim. He has campaigned against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed mothers. Terry himself was censured by his church after committing adultery.

Strom Thurmond was an outspoken southern republican senator and racist. According to information revealed toward the end of his life, he had as a younger man raped and impregnanted a 15-year old African American maid. Throughout his adult life, as a politician and U.S. Senator, Thurmond quietly contributed to the family of the young African-American mother of his child. In contrast to, say, George "I Was Wrong" Wallace, Thurmond had always been an ornery redemption project. He did not repent. Even so, his illegitimate daughter further complicated the moral picture. Source: slate.com/BBC Article

Jim West, Spokane Mayor, supported a bill which failed, would have barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. He voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. He proposed that “any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a personâ€￾ among teens be criminalized. He ended up having a sexual affair with an 18-year old boy. Source: Spokesman review

Larry Flynt taking John Bolton to task? Political leaders funded by the Christian Coalition watching their lives and political ambitions end in disgrace? I know people won't change their views over this article, that would be too much to expect, but I have a feeling some of this information, much of which is not discussed in many circles, is important to share. Major hangups over sex do not seem to get people very far, at least in the end, and it is obvious that many of the stated motivations of these individuals are the exact opposite of what lurks in their hearts.

The Democrats have no shortage of serious problems when it comes to extramarital activity, some of it illegal, all of it wrong. But that will take another story, it would not be quite as long of a list, but long enough.

The case of former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt came to light on May 6th 2004 in the Willamette Week newspaper. Goldschmidt publicly announced that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with a 14-year old girl for an extended period during his first term as Mayor of Portland. Their relations constituted third degree rape under Oregon law, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. In this case, the statute of limitations had expired, making Goldschmidt immune from any prosecution over the matter.

 

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Belly up on the IAM thread?

 

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aww come on Dell, I gave you ALL the sources, no retort?

I would expect more of you.