How the GOP Must Respond to Sanford-Gate and Ensign-Gate
By John Cardillo
America’s Right
For the record, I hate the “gate” suffix when describing scandals, but it just seemed so appropriate in this case since the Democrats have had their “gates” for years, and capitalized on them. Now it’s our turn.
Mark Sanford, in taking an Argentine vacation with his mistress, and John Ensign in having an affair with a friend’s wife, both give the GOP a unique opportunity to drag out some old Democratic dirty laundry as the 2010 midterm elections quickly approach.
That’s right, I’m talking about William Jefferson Clinton and his cigar, Elliot Spitzer a/k/a “Client # 9″ and, of course, former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevy, who not only had an affair, but a sexually harassing homosexual one. [I call him the "Jersey Meathook." -- Jeff]
Democrats love to point fingers whenever there is a Republican “sex scandal,” but that’s to be expected from a party that doesn’t like mirrors very much. However, when Democrat presidents seduce college kids, Democrat governors get caught paying prostitutes with whom they are cheating on their wives, or sexually harassing male employees, it is written off as human nature, and pressures of the job.
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June 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm
stothes
The Democrats are just as sleazy as the Republicans. The difference is the element of hypocrisy in the GOP. You’ve got all these Republicans carping about family values and the sanctity of marriage, yet they all seem to have a mistress or a male escort on the side.
June 24, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Interested Bystander
stothes,
This is scarey, but I agree with you again.
The “family values” line needs to go, you have to practice what you preach, or you are labeled a hypocrite, and rightfully so.
How about having the platform stick to ISSUES, and not VALUES? Something like, “get the Government out of families’ buisness”? That works for me.
June 25, 2009 at 5:27 am
mrje
Something stinks in Denmark… OF COURSE, what Sanford has done is despicable… BUT…
While Sanford was MIA, it seems everyone really overreacted to his disappearance….
Was he “set up” to be exposed?
It does not make sense to me that these politicians would run straight to media camera’s and start panicking over his disappearance… (“what will we do..?”)unless they wanted to manipulate the media to INVESTIGATE…
because they KNEW where he was, or, at last knew what he was doing.
… hmmm…. very suspicious.
From what I could tell, Sanford is in no emotional state to govern anything.
June 25, 2009 at 7:01 am
JAMES
It seems that some newspaper had been sitting on the “emails” since December, and his wife has known for “5-6 months”. It does seem to be a politically manipulated move, and I think the main reason it was brought out so quickly yesterday was that his SUV had been located at the Atlanta airport, so the SC media staked it out…. obviously the same media that had the emails, thus knowing enough to watch the flights from Argentina. Since he had been lying about this for so long, had the media not met him at the airport, he would have continued the charade awhile longer with his hiking expedition story. Undoubtedly, the close circle of those who already knew was going to expand.