Hey Doc - what about your boy Robert Byrd - the Grand Supreme Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - Remember how he used the word "nigger" during an interview on Fox - and got away with it! And there's Teddy Kennedy - he murdered poor MaryJoe Kopekne at Chapaquiddic - and then just staggered away and forgot about her body until he sobered up. Bill Clinton only perjured himself over a blow job - gave a solemn oath to tell the truth and then lied through his teeth. Sexual harrassment was never mentioned in his pecadillo. Then there's the Governor of NJ and his fraud and homosexual goings on
And so on and so on and so on!
Doc - so what - who did Bennet hurt with his gambling? Did he ever rail against gambling? No! But you and all your left wing zealots will try to crucify him as if he did.
You sir, are a hypocrite!
And so on and so on and so on!
Doc - so what - who did Bennet hurt with his gambling? Did he ever rail against gambling? No! But you and all your left wing zealots will try to crucify him as if he did.
You sir, are a hypocrite!
bblight:
the list of Repubs will "tainted" backgrounds is not a short list:
Quick now, has anyone heard of Randy Ankeney? He was a rising star in Colorado Republican circles who held a $63,000 position in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development until he was arrested in 2001 and accused of trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through the Internet. 47
Police said Ankeney even warned the girl he’d ruin her life if she told anyone. Does that sound familiar? That’s how many of these Republicans keep their affairs quiet - they threaten a bunch of people.
Another 17-year-old girl said Ankeney sexually assaulted her while working on a political campaign. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2003. 48
How about Parker J. Bena, a Virginia Republican activist who proudly cast one of his state’s electoral vote for Bush in 2000, being indicted for possessing child pornography in 2001? Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. 49
Long-time Virginia Republican fund-raiser Richard Delgaudio, 50, was more fortunate. He only received two years probation in 2003 after pleading guilty to taking sexually-related photos of a 16-year-old girl in a motel room. In 2001, Delgaudio was picked up by police in Baltimore’s Patterson Park, an area police said was known for prostitution. 50
Does Republican Marty Glickman, one of those rabid dog conservative talk radio commentators in Florida who was arrested in 2001 and charged with giving drugs like LSD and money to underaged girls in exchange for sex, ring a bell? 51
Anyone hear of Kevin T. Coan, a Republican who formerly directed the St. Louis Election Board? He was charged in 2001 with trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl in cyberspace. As of 2003, his case hadn’t been resolved. 52
Then there was Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who was sentenced in 2003 to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged girls and violating their civil rights. It’s more likely you’ve heard of him since this case received ample media coverage. 53
Another case that got some attention involved Beverly Russell, a leader in the South Carolina Republican Party and the local Christian Coalition who campaigned for presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who allegedly molested his step-daughter, children-drowner Susan Smith. 54
I’ve been told that numerous Religious Right nuts read sexual material under the guise of knowing what’s in it so they can keep it from their children. Many Religious Rightists also believe a man can have sex with his wife anytime he pleases, whether she wants to or not. Some would call that rape, but I’m sure these nuts have another word for it.
the list of Repubs will "tainted" backgrounds is not a short list:
Quick now, has anyone heard of Randy Ankeney? He was a rising star in Colorado Republican circles who held a $63,000 position in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development until he was arrested in 2001 and accused of trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through the Internet. 47
Police said Ankeney even warned the girl he’d ruin her life if she told anyone. Does that sound familiar? That’s how many of these Republicans keep their affairs quiet - they threaten a bunch of people.
Another 17-year-old girl said Ankeney sexually assaulted her while working on a political campaign. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2003. 48
How about Parker J. Bena, a Virginia Republican activist who proudly cast one of his state’s electoral vote for Bush in 2000, being indicted for possessing child pornography in 2001? Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. 49
Long-time Virginia Republican fund-raiser Richard Delgaudio, 50, was more fortunate. He only received two years probation in 2003 after pleading guilty to taking sexually-related photos of a 16-year-old girl in a motel room. In 2001, Delgaudio was picked up by police in Baltimore’s Patterson Park, an area police said was known for prostitution. 50
Does Republican Marty Glickman, one of those rabid dog conservative talk radio commentators in Florida who was arrested in 2001 and charged with giving drugs like LSD and money to underaged girls in exchange for sex, ring a bell? 51
Anyone hear of Kevin T. Coan, a Republican who formerly directed the St. Louis Election Board? He was charged in 2001 with trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl in cyberspace. As of 2003, his case hadn’t been resolved. 52
Then there was Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who was sentenced in 2003 to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged girls and violating their civil rights. It’s more likely you’ve heard of him since this case received ample media coverage. 53
Another case that got some attention involved Beverly Russell, a leader in the South Carolina Republican Party and the local Christian Coalition who campaigned for presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who allegedly molested his step-daughter, children-drowner Susan Smith. 54
I’ve been told that numerous Religious Right nuts read sexual material under the guise of knowing what’s in it so they can keep it from their children. Many Religious Rightists also believe a man can have sex with his wife anytime he pleases, whether she wants to or not. Some would call that rape, but I’m sure these nuts have another word for it.
bblight: More of those outstanding, "Morally" strong Repubs:
So the message was if you have an affair and you’re a Democrat, you get impeached. But if you have an affair and you’re a Republican, you get applause and support.
Other conservative hypocrites who castigated Clinton for sins they committed themselves included Congressman Dan Burton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, presidential candidate Bob Dole, and Sen. Strom Thurmond.
Burton, who once called Clinton a “scumbag” in the midst of the public sexual witch hunt, admitted during the 1998 proceedings against Clinton that he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child out of wedlock when he was a state senator in the 1980s. Burton said on PBS, “This is something that happened a long time ago.....The boy and the mother and my wife and my family and I have all reached an agreement about this a long time ago.” 30
Well, isn’t that special? So we should all forget about Republican affairs as long as the parties involved reach a private agreement?
Gingrich was known to force oral sex with interns and reportedly cheated on two of his three wives. He even served his first wife with divorce papers while she lying in a hospital bed fighting cancer so that he could marry a mistress. 31
Then, Gingrich divorced wife number two, reportedly for Callista Bisek, a much younger Congressional employee, and had sex with her in his Capitol Hill office during the Clinton witch hunt.
As columnist Robert Scheer pointed out, “As House speaker, Gingrich had ultimate power over the woman’s career, raising questions of sexual harassment.”
Gingrich married Bisek a few months after divorce number two was finalized in 2000. He got his second marriage annulled by the Catholic Church, even though Gingrich was not Catholic - Bisek was. That meant that the church declined to formally recognize the 19 years of Gingrich’s second marriage. How’s that for family values?
Dole, who lost big-time to the “Big Dog” in 1996, reportedly had an affair with a woman who was not his wife in 1968. The Washington Post wrote that the paper and Time both interviewed the woman at length, then decided not to run the story before the 1996 election. The National Enquirer ran the story, instead.
The late Thurmond, for his part, had sex with the late Carrie Butler in 1925, when he was 22 and she was a 16-year-old African-American housekeeper in Thurmond’s home. The act wasn’t a crime back in the early 20th century, but it would be now. Thurmond reportedly helped pay for the college education of his part-black daughter, Essie Mae Washington Williams, even as he referred to African-Americans as “niggers” and became one of the country’s leading proponents of segregation.
That action was deceitful in more ways than the obvious hypocrisy; if white America had heard about Thurmond’s black child, his political career would have been over. While articles appeared about the tie as early as 1972, Thurmond, Williams, and Butler kept quiet about the matter until Williams spilled the beans in 2003. 35
In addition to that deceit, according to AmericaHeldHostile.com, Thurmond had an extramarital affair of his own when he was 88.
What family people these Republicans were !!!
So the message was if you have an affair and you’re a Democrat, you get impeached. But if you have an affair and you’re a Republican, you get applause and support.
Other conservative hypocrites who castigated Clinton for sins they committed themselves included Congressman Dan Burton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, presidential candidate Bob Dole, and Sen. Strom Thurmond.
Burton, who once called Clinton a “scumbag” in the midst of the public sexual witch hunt, admitted during the 1998 proceedings against Clinton that he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child out of wedlock when he was a state senator in the 1980s. Burton said on PBS, “This is something that happened a long time ago.....The boy and the mother and my wife and my family and I have all reached an agreement about this a long time ago.” 30
Well, isn’t that special? So we should all forget about Republican affairs as long as the parties involved reach a private agreement?
Gingrich was known to force oral sex with interns and reportedly cheated on two of his three wives. He even served his first wife with divorce papers while she lying in a hospital bed fighting cancer so that he could marry a mistress. 31
Then, Gingrich divorced wife number two, reportedly for Callista Bisek, a much younger Congressional employee, and had sex with her in his Capitol Hill office during the Clinton witch hunt.
As columnist Robert Scheer pointed out, “As House speaker, Gingrich had ultimate power over the woman’s career, raising questions of sexual harassment.”
Gingrich married Bisek a few months after divorce number two was finalized in 2000. He got his second marriage annulled by the Catholic Church, even though Gingrich was not Catholic - Bisek was. That meant that the church declined to formally recognize the 19 years of Gingrich’s second marriage. How’s that for family values?
Dole, who lost big-time to the “Big Dog” in 1996, reportedly had an affair with a woman who was not his wife in 1968. The Washington Post wrote that the paper and Time both interviewed the woman at length, then decided not to run the story before the 1996 election. The National Enquirer ran the story, instead.
The late Thurmond, for his part, had sex with the late Carrie Butler in 1925, when he was 22 and she was a 16-year-old African-American housekeeper in Thurmond’s home. The act wasn’t a crime back in the early 20th century, but it would be now. Thurmond reportedly helped pay for the college education of his part-black daughter, Essie Mae Washington Williams, even as he referred to African-Americans as “niggers” and became one of the country’s leading proponents of segregation.
That action was deceitful in more ways than the obvious hypocrisy; if white America had heard about Thurmond’s black child, his political career would have been over. While articles appeared about the tie as early as 1972, Thurmond, Williams, and Butler kept quiet about the matter until Williams spilled the beans in 2003. 35
In addition to that deceit, according to AmericaHeldHostile.com, Thurmond had an extramarital affair of his own when he was 88.
What family people these Republicans were !!!
bblight: cant forget ol Jeb Bush .. Mr "Family Man" himself !
Jeb Bush reportedly had an affair with Cynthia Henderson, a former Playboy bunny who he put in charge of the Florida Department of Management Services at a salary of $114,000 a year in 1999. Bush also appointed Henderson to run the Department of Business and Professional Regulation in 1999.
But he had to transfer her after a state ethics investigation into her accepting personal favors - including a private plane ride to the Kentucky Derby - from Outback Steakhouse, a company her office was supposed to regulate. Henderson also reportedly helped obtain state jobs for her nanny and the nanny’s boyfriend, and she was also sued by a state employee who alleged that Henderson grabbed him by the throat and threatened to choke him to death. 11
While some Bush advisors and newspapers called on Henderson to be fired, Bush refused and publicly denied in May 2001 that he had as much as been in a room alone with Henderson after mostly alternative media published the allegations. Unlike with Clinton, Condit, and other Democrats like potential 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart, the major media did not aggressively pursue the story and check out whether Bush was telling the truth. In former Sen. Hart’s case, the media even staked out his Washington home to report an alleged affair he had with model Donna Rice. As late as 1998, Hart called the media frenzy surrounding him “fascist.”
Jeb Bush reportedly had an affair with Cynthia Henderson, a former Playboy bunny who he put in charge of the Florida Department of Management Services at a salary of $114,000 a year in 1999. Bush also appointed Henderson to run the Department of Business and Professional Regulation in 1999.
But he had to transfer her after a state ethics investigation into her accepting personal favors - including a private plane ride to the Kentucky Derby - from Outback Steakhouse, a company her office was supposed to regulate. Henderson also reportedly helped obtain state jobs for her nanny and the nanny’s boyfriend, and she was also sued by a state employee who alleged that Henderson grabbed him by the throat and threatened to choke him to death. 11
While some Bush advisors and newspapers called on Henderson to be fired, Bush refused and publicly denied in May 2001 that he had as much as been in a room alone with Henderson after mostly alternative media published the allegations. Unlike with Clinton, Condit, and other Democrats like potential 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart, the major media did not aggressively pursue the story and check out whether Bush was telling the truth. In former Sen. Hart’s case, the media even staked out his Washington home to report an alleged affair he had with model Donna Rice. As late as 1998, Hart called the media frenzy surrounding him “fascist.”
bblight:
A man who positions himself as a moral leader can certainly drop a few bucks on the slots when he's in Vegas. However, wasting $800,000 a year on such vices is distasteful. Scale *does* make a difference here -- Bennett engaged in such a disgusting display of consumption and excess that, as an example of moral rectitude, he has proven a failure. Utterly. Imagine the uses to which that $8 million may have been put -- it could buy houses for a hundred families in depressed areas of the country. It could jumpstart a foundation for teaching kids community ethics via service programs. Heck, he could use it to pay for the higher education of all of his own grandchildren, and have enough left over to buy them houses and cars.
Bennett's preaching hearkens back to a semi-mythical America, one where the virtues of diligence, hard work, self-sacrifice, and community spirit are rewarded. Issues of hypocrisy aside, the example he has set is one of gross consumption and furtive self-indulgence. He has broken the back of the American values he professed, showing all of us just how they wither under too harsh a light.
If Bennett hadn't been a sanctimonious prig--and a liar--nobody would care about his gambling. But he grew wealthy--and, as a result, was able to finance his gambling "habit"--by preaching "virtue" to others, and getting paid handsomely for it.
Query how many of those who paid Bennett to be preached to, would have paid him if they knew that more than a bit of the money would be going to finance his gambling debts.
A man who positions himself as a moral leader can certainly drop a few bucks on the slots when he's in Vegas. However, wasting $800,000 a year on such vices is distasteful. Scale *does* make a difference here -- Bennett engaged in such a disgusting display of consumption and excess that, as an example of moral rectitude, he has proven a failure. Utterly. Imagine the uses to which that $8 million may have been put -- it could buy houses for a hundred families in depressed areas of the country. It could jumpstart a foundation for teaching kids community ethics via service programs. Heck, he could use it to pay for the higher education of all of his own grandchildren, and have enough left over to buy them houses and cars.
Bennett's preaching hearkens back to a semi-mythical America, one where the virtues of diligence, hard work, self-sacrifice, and community spirit are rewarded. Issues of hypocrisy aside, the example he has set is one of gross consumption and furtive self-indulgence. He has broken the back of the American values he professed, showing all of us just how they wither under too harsh a light.
If Bennett hadn't been a sanctimonious prig--and a liar--nobody would care about his gambling. But he grew wealthy--and, as a result, was able to finance his gambling "habit"--by preaching "virtue" to others, and getting paid handsomely for it.
Query how many of those who paid Bennett to be preached to, would have paid him if they knew that more than a bit of the money would be going to finance his gambling debts.
