another night Time Feud For Ya - The Political Scandal Feud by 42fish [game over]

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Try to think of the most popular answer, to get the most people matching you. Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

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Write your answers like this; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.
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2. response
3. rejoinder
The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at 4:00 PM Central on Tuesday, 8/26/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

  1. Name a politician brought down by a sex scandal.
  2. Other than Bill Clinton, name a politician who survived a sex scandal.
  3. Name a politician brought down by a bribery/financial corruption scandal.
  4. Name a politician brought down by a drug scandal…
  5. Other than President Nixon, name a figure from Watergate.
  6. Other than President Reagan, name a figure from Iran-Contra.
  7. Other than the Lewinsky affair, name a scandal from the Clinton administration.
  8. Name a scandal from the George W. Bush administration.
  9. Provide a quote from a political scandal.
  10. Name something a politician does to repair his image when a scandal breaks.
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  1. Eliot Spitzer
  2. Clarence Thomas
  3. Otto Kern
  4. Marion Barry
  5. Mark Felt
  6. George H. W. Bush
  7. Whitewater
  8. Bush reading “The Pet Goat” on 9/11
  9. “I am not a crook”
  10. Holds a press conference
3
  1. Gary Hart
  2. JFK
  3. Warren G. Harding
  4. Marion Barry
  5. John Ehrlichman
  6. Ollie North
  7. Whitewater
  8. The Valerie Plame “name leak” scandal
  9. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
  10. Holds a press conference to cry crocodile tears and “apologize”

edited to fix agreement in #10

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  1. Eliot Spitzer
  2. Ted Kennedy
  3. Tom DeLay
  4. Marion Barry
  5. John Erlichman
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Firing of US attorneys
  9. I am not a crook
    10.Hold a press conference
5
  1. Gary Hart
  2. Clarence Thomas
  3. Donald Riegle
  4. Marion Barry
  5. G. Gordon Liddy
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Valerie Plume breach of security
  9. “I am not a crook.”
  10. Press conference with his wife
6
  1. John Profumo
  2. Ted Kennedy
  3. Tom DeLay
  4. Marion Barry
  5. John Dean
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Plame affair
  9. “I am not a crook!”
  10. Makes a speech with his wife beside him.
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  1. Name a politician brought down by a sex scandal.

  2. Other than Bill Clinton, name a politician who survived a sex scandal.

  3. Name a politician brought down by a bribery/financial corruption scandal.

  4. Name a politician brought down by a drug scandal…

  5. Other than President Nixon, name a figure from Watergate.

  6. Other than President Reagan, name a figure from Iran-Contra.

  7. Other than the Lewinsky affair, name a scandal from the Clinton administration.

  8. Name a scandal from the George W. Bush administration.

  9. Provide a quote from a political scandal.

  10. Name something a politician does to repair his image when a scandal breaks.

  11. Gary Condit

  12. Barney Frank

  13. Tom DeLay

  14. Wilbur Mills

  15. John Dean

  16. Oliver North

  17. White water

  18. Halliburton - military contractor in Iraq

  19. “I did NOT have sex with that woman!”

  20. makes appearances with family, especially wife and children

D’oh! I didn’t really know who to put for a drug scandal, so picked Wilbur Mills - I think I recall him being involved with both alcohol and drugs. Condit’s relationship with Chandra Levy definitely helped defeat him in his next election. Barney Frank, I believe, has survived all the stuff they’ve tried to use to turn his electorate against him. LOL

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  1. Eliot Spitzer
  2. Clarence Thomas
  3. Tom Delay
  4. Marion Barry
  5. John Ehrlichman
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. The Valerie Plame thing
  9. “I am not a crook”
  10. Holds a press conference
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  1. Elliot Spitzer
  2. Gary Hart
  3. James J Walker
  4. Marion Barry
  5. John Mitchell
  6. Alezander Haig
  7. White Water
  8. Katrina/FEMA
  9. “I am not a crook!”
  10. Has his press secretary hold a press conference
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by the way - James J Walker of Tammany Hall fame circa very early 20th century - brought down by Fiorello H LaGuardia

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  1. Gary Hart

  2. Nicolas Sarkozy

  3. Bob Ney

  4. Marion Barry

  5. G. Gordon Liddy

  6. Oliver North

  7. Whitewater

  8. Valerie Plame “outing”

  9. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”

  10. Appears for a photo op with “forgiving” spouse

  11. Of course, he has the advantage of being from France, which has a more laissez-faire attitude about such matters than does the USA

  12. I’m hoping the Jack Abramoff dealings are still fresh in other Dopers’ minds

  13. At least temporarily…

  14. As a CIA agent

  15. It got me no points in the “catchphrase Feud”, but I’m hoping it’ll gain some traction here

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  1. Profumo
  2. John Kennedy
  3. Tom Delay
  4. Marion Berry
  5. John Dean
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. The Valerie Plame treason
  9. “I am not a crook.” - Richard Nixon
  10. Make a speech with his wife
13
  1. John Edwards
  2. John McCain
  3. Tom Delay
  4. Marion Barry
  5. G. Gordon Liddy
  6. Lt. Col. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Phony claims of Iraqi WMDs
  9. “I did not have sex with that woman”
  10. Hold a press conference to apologize

Notes:

  1. More or less the most recent, but geez, there seem to have been a lot lately.
  2. Not sure it was a scandal, per se but I’ll give 'er a whirl.
  3. rather conch-ish, I think.
  4. So many to choose from!
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  1. Gary Hart
  2. Edward Kennedy
  3. Tom DeLay
  4. Marion Barry
  5. Charles Colson
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Haliburton
  9. I am not a crook
  10. Apology speech, with wife at side
15
  1. Gary Hart
  2. JFK
  3. Albert Fall
  4. Marion Barry
  5. G Gordon Liddy
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Valerie Plame
  9. I am not a crook
  10. Holds press conference with wife/family
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  1. Name a politician brought down by a sex scandal.
    Eliot Spitzer

  2. Other than Bill Clinton, name a politician who survived a sex scandal.
    Ted Kennedy

  3. Name a politician brought down by a bribery/financial corruption scandal.
    Tom DeLay

  4. Name a politician brought down by a drug scandal.
    Man, I’m really drawing a blank here.

  5. Other than President Nixon, name a figure from Watergate.
    Mark “Deep Throat” Felt

  6. Other than President Reagan, name a figure from Iran-Contra.
    Oliver North

  7. Other than the Lewinsky affair, name a scandal from the Clinton administration.
    Whitewater

  8. Name a scandal from the George W. Bush administration.
    Scooter Libby/Valerie Plame

  9. Provide a quote from a political scandal.
    “I am not a crook.”

  10. Name something a politician does to repair his image when a scandal breaks.
    Speechify at a press conference.

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And I fucked up the formatting. I’m sorry Dolores, feel free to count me out, I don’t want to cause you extra work. Thanks for these.

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  1. John Edwards
  2. Grover Cleveland
  3. Ted Stevens*
  4. Marion Barry*
  5. G. Gordon Liddy
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Abu-Ghraib
  9. “Bitch set me up!”*
  10. Retires to spend more time with family

*I so wanted to say Traficant
*Who wasn’t actually brought down
*my favorite answer of this feud. Marion Barry at his prime.

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  1. Eliot Spitzer
  2. Grover Cleveland
  3. Bud Dwyer
  4. Marion Berry
  5. G Gordon Liddy
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Valerie Plame outing
  9. “I am not a crook”
  10. Appear on camera with his family

4 - He did make a comeback, though

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  1. Bill Clinton
  2. Larry Craig
  3. William Jefferson
  4. Marion Barry
  5. Deep Throat
  6. Oliver North
  7. Whitewater
  8. Leaking of Valerie Plame’s identity
  9. I am not a crook
  10. Appear beside his wife on national television