I really had no idea you didn't want to be groped.Follow

Putting your **** into various women who are not your spouse is like stealing candy bars and sending girls tweets is like stealing a car.

If the GOP really was the party of purity and goodness it claims to be you'd think they'd adopt a platform such that any elected member caught in unethical or immoral acts would be required to automaticaly resign. I wonder why they don't.

As soon as you let logic and reason into your talking points other than the copy pasting of stock talking points that you haven't thought about yourself, I promise to not let them get in the way.

More like how an affair is really an issue between the two people, but tweeting a picture of your privates to an entire list of followers is a much more public thing. Divorcing your wife and marrying the woman you had an affair with is an adequate resolution of the former issue. Continuing to send sexually explicit tweets to people, with the same potential for accidentally doing exactly what you did last time is *not*. The issue with Weiner is that he is continuing to engage in the same behavior. It's not specifically about the seriousness of what he did.

With Filner, it's more a matter that what he's been doing goes far far beyond simply having an affair or accidentally sending a tweet to the wrong list of people. Hence why I spoke of degrees. Painting all indiscretions with the same brush is somewhat absurd, yet it appears as though some of you want to excuse bad behavior on one side by pointing at bad behavior on the other. Look. If what's his name is caught hiring hookers again, then I'd be making the exact same argument regarding a failure to mend his ways that I've made about Weiner. And if the other what's his name manages to find yet another woman to have an affair with, I'd make a similar argument about him.

But they haven't done those things, have they? That's the difference. You can't compare them, because the issue is one of repeated behavior after being caught the first time. If you clean up your act, and convince people you've cleaned it up, you might be able to rebuild your political career and move forward. But if you are then caught doing the same thing again, you lose all credibility. Which is what's happening with Weiner.


Again. Filner is a different case. His is more or less criminal sexual assault. Which is way beyond anything any of the other guys we've talked about have done. So comparing his to theirs is even more absurd. There's simply no excuse for what he did, and no comparison.

So long as pants have "zippers" (A.K.A. "the Chopper") then yes. Holy hell absolutly yes. You only experiance that level of pain Once before you never, ever go that route again. That scene from "theres something about mary" with the zipper incident? Not an exageration.

Speaking of repeat offenders being chased out and never being re-accepted to the fold, think Newt'll run again in '16?

If Newt magically won the nomination, Gbaji would defend Newt's infidelity to the end, just as he defended McCain's. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single time Gbaji did say some Republican was unfit to serve office due to his sexual behavior. How shocking.

And if Weiner had just said "Oops. I was sending a funny tweet to a friend as a joke, but sent it to the wrong list. Sorry. Boy this is embarrassing!", it would have been just that. But pretending it didn't happen. Then insisting that hackers did it. And then only after multiple people came out saying that this is precisely the kind of thing he does do did he finally own up to it.

What's the saying? The cover up is worse than the scandal. That was the issue with Weiner. And it's still the issue because he once again lied that he wasn't doing this sort of thing any more, only to have yet more people come out and say "um.. he's still doing the same thing". It's more a matter of public trust in his case.



You're weighting things differently is all.



I suppose that depends on what "get away" means though. You seem to think that nothing short of resignation in disgrace is acceptable. But that's clearly not the case on either side. It's the particulars that matter. What I was saying is that Democrats are held to a lower standard by their supporters than Republicans are. And I think that's quite demonstrable if we look at the full set of various scandals that have occurred.

That was the issue with Sanford. He left his office without telling anyone, phoned in a lie about being in the Appalachian Mts and his family was left with the humiliation of saying "We have no idea where he is" while the government and media hunted for him on Father's Day because he was off fucking some broad in South America.

But, yeah, **** tweets.


That's putting it mildly.


No, it doesn't get any Republican thrown out. In fact, I'm having trouble thinking of any (heterosexual) Republican in recent memory who was thrown out over cheating on their spouse, either through direct impeachment, resignation or at the ballot box.

For the record, I don't agree with legislative action against someone for infidelity -- merely doinking someone shouldn't be cause in of itself -- but I'm not the one making hilariously wrong claims about how Republicans wouldn't stand for those shenanigans.

Edited, Aug 15th 2013 3:21pm by Jophiel

Sound advice.

But I learned my lesson, that one relies on them doing the opposite.

Every base covered, I'm ******* invincible.

**** that, there's always room for another 15 minute transformation sequence.

I've got a porygon for a duck, worst comes to the worst I just pull my pants down during.