The Young Turks

HYPOCRISY.  It's what's for dinner.

We only care when it is from an even remotely trustworthy news source, not when it is from an organization of professional liars.

I promise you I would care equally less if it was about McCain or Bush and the source was the National Enquirer.  Why can't you get this?

And how is this story even relevant when women in Appalachia are having half human half bat alien babies fathered by chupacabras?  Have some perspective man!

I do think Edwards is a kind of a dick if he's cheating on his wife,  especially with her having potentially terminal cancer. Other than that I don't particularly care.  I don't recall him campaigning as an outstanding example of marital fidelity or denouncing others for their sexual indiscretions.  I feel differently on it depending on what face a politician presents to the public.

A few examples: 

David Vitter: I have always found him pompous with his "family values" horseshit and I strongly suspected he was singing the song he's supposed to sing, as opposed to living the life he's supposed to live.  This was proven in the most spectacular fashion and for that I confess to being very pleased.  It was like a Christmas present when the news came out.  He's right up there on the hyprocrisy scale with people like Jimmy Swaggert and Ted Haggard.  Such people have no problem imposing moral judgements on other people.  They see themselves, though, as being in a privileged class for whom those same rules should not apply.  This gets to the heart of what I dislike about Republicanism as practiced by George Bush and his ilk.  They would outlaw abortion for ordinary people, crow about their morality, then quietly arrange over a golf game with their doctor buddy to take care of their teenage daughter's "little problem".  Such people deserve any humiliation that they get. 

Larry Craig:  The truth is I found his case a little sad.  It must be a lonely, repressed man that goes looking for sex in airport restrooms.  I kind of felt sorry for the guy, even if his "wide stance" defense was worth a thousand good jokes.  On the other hand, if he hadn't taken public stances (wide or otherwise) against homosexuality himself I would have felt a lot more sympathy for him.  It's the hypocrisy, don't they get it? 

Mark Foley: This business of hitting on underage people is creepy as hell.  I think he should have been fired immediately.

Bill Clinton:  The Monica thing was a big yawn.  I think that Paula Jones is nothing more than a skank he hit on that wanted to weasel as much money as she could out of the deal.  He certainly deserved the aggravation she caused him, but we didn't.  She deliberately waited till he was president to press charges and was used as a pawn by the Republicans, and to hell with the dignity of the United States.   I blame Clinton and the Republican party about 50/50 for bringing this ridiculous tabloid emphasis on people's personal sexual lives into the common public discourse.  Now that they've gleefully opened that pandora's box the more Republican reputations that burn in its flames the better.

Remember Bob Livingston?  I didn't give a crap about his affair either.  It shouldn't have been necessary for him to resign just because he cheated on his wife.  On the other hand, he had to do it because like other conservative hypocrits he made a big deal out of publicly denouncing Clinton's affairs.  He had become an embarrasment to the party.  His "virtue" in resigning wasn't nearly as noble as it sounds.  I know someone who knew him fairly well personally and he was hot to start lobbying.  He had been thinking about it for years and the only reason he was considering staying on was because he might become speaker of the house.  His outing meant that was no longer possible and he knew it, so he left.  He's made a killing doing lobbying since then.  Poor thing.