Sounds like normal Republican stupid to me: arrogant, over the top, beside the point and treated as gospel by the Sunday morning talk show moderators. I’m convinced. I’m voting for Sarah Palin for President in '07. That giant sucking sound is all our jobs whooshing over to India.
So… cheating is moral if the chick is hot ? That’s some interesting ethics, I’ll give you that much.
Probably several.
Newt Gingrich was in the midst of an affair of his own while busy getting Clinton impeached for his, and an earlier Gingrich mistress reported that he preferred to restrict their escapades to the oral variety so that he could legitimately claim that they weren’t having sex. A pity that the Liberal Media failed to report it at the time…
Hey guys, keep the larger picture in focus here. For years European politicians have been keeping hot models as mistresses on the side. Meanwhile, their American counterparts have been caught getting sweaty with gay hookers, past their prime prostitutes, chubby girls, or trying to get with a middle aged cop in the restroom. If we keep going down this path we’re gonna totally reverse the stereotype. This is a step in the right direction.
This reminds me of a story I told my grandpappy just before he died. It was a great story, and when I was finished my grandpappy said to me:
“That was the finest story I ever heard. For 87 years I did not know the meaning of life or why I was put on this earth. I now know that. This story means I can die in peace fully content.”
And with that, he died. Of course he died with an enormous grin on his face which to this day is only closely mirrored by the Mona Lisa herself.
Unfortunately the hamsters here will not give me the bandwidth to retell that story. But let me tell you, it was the finest story every told, and let my grandpappy’s last words be a testament to that.
It also refuted every word of Scylla’s story here. It is a shame I cannot retell it.
I agree. When America loses out on a public healthcare option because our Senators and Representatives couldn’t unlatch themselves from the healthcare industry campaign contribution tit, my anger and disappointment will be mitigated by the number of free dinners and corporate jet rides they were able to extract from their corporate benefactors. As long as they don’t go down too cheaply I guess I shouldn’t complain.
What the Sanford affair means is that Republicans will excuse any behavior as long as the person has ® next to his name.
Can’t get on board with the OP. Sanford was right when he demanded that Clinton resign over his improprieties (which BTW were by no means private). This is why Republicans and others that are demanding that Sanford resign over an affair that impacted his public work are on solid ground indeed.
The one thing I can say about this is that when various politicians of both parties got caught in indiscretions, most of them used their wives to rehabilitate their public image. It runs the gamut from having them stand next to their cheating spouse in the press conference to actually defending their man to the media. Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Suzanne Thompson (Craig), Dina Matos McGreevey, Silda Spitzer - all of them willingly or reluctantly played this role to save their husbands’ political skin. And all of them lost a bit of public support and likely took a hit to their own self-esteem by doing so.
Jenny Sanford hasn’t done this - her comments on the subject haven’t been of the type calculated to rehabilitate her husband ( though not overly cruel either), and when he gave her press conference she wasn’t anywhere to be seen. I don’t think I’m alone in being impressed by that. Frankly, it is quite normal and natural behavior - the fact that it is so seldom seen in politics ought to remind us of how carefully the public image of these politicians is managed, right down to fake smiles and expressions of support that aren’t genuine.
I think a lot of people were impressed by this, and I wonder whether this will become the new norm because of the public support Jenny Sanford has.
I actually hiked part of the Appalachian Trail 
I didn’t get laid though :mad:
I think it means that Republicans want to change the subject to wiener politics. If they were concerned with truly expiating the sins of their party, they’d be clamoring for a war crimes trial. But they aren’t into accountability for their policies. Their wieners? Yes. Their policies? No.
Next is the anal phase- do I have that right? And they’ll be a mature party around, oh, 2036?
Subject: The OP
Result: Fail
It hit Urban Dictionary within hours: Hiking the Appalachian Trail
Doubtless the answer varies from woman to woman but in many cases (particularly HRC comes to mind) I can only think their decision to “stand by her man” was a thoroughly self serving one. These women enjoy a certain lifestyle/perks and in HRC’s case her own political future was part of the calculation and one not served by throwing her husband under the bus as he deserved.
Some I suppose may really love their husbands and are really able to forgive (in time). That so many seem willing to stick with their guy seems to defy the odds. Bad enough that their spouse cheated on them. Worse that it is so public and humiliating to them.
I applaud Jenny Sanford playing this as she has. Must be a miserable position to be in and her husband in no way deserves her support. Wish more women did it this way with these creeps.
Is this REALLY a Great Debate??? :eek:
As I parse this OP, it boils down to: a person is less of a rat if the rat behavior he engages in is done with a hot chick, not a dog.
Great Debate. Right. :rolleyes:
How much is 30 pieces of silver adjusted for roughly 2000 years of inflation?
Doesn’t this story just mean that **Scylla **openly enjoys trolling in real life as well as here? That he argues from a solely partisan position regardless of his true beliefs, which may or may not actually exist, and enjoys that argument?
The other pols said in a moment of weakness they went out and got their horns honked. Sanford set a high bar by saying she was his "soul mate’. That is a little harder to forgive.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t see how this is possible. But then, I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch Glenn Beck.
Right, the OP is conflating a moral judgment about the conduct itself with a moral judgment about standards of hotness, all while energetically resisting making a moral judgment about hypocrisy. No wonder he’s confused.
And it’s quite a squirrely point, at that.
Come on, no need to badger him about it.