Missouri Speaker Resigns after SexTexting exposed

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Great toon Bob and thanks.

Another Rightwing hypocrite bites the dust.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Another Rightwing hypocrite bites the dust.

Like the right has a corner on the hypocrisy market. Like the GOP has a corner on the philandering market. I've pretty much had a gut full of conveniently partisan sexual misadventure posts on this and every other lefty forum where I've been a member.

Like there aren't any liberal democrats who can't figure out how to keep it in their pants that we conveniently ignore.

[donquixote99]

It's totally fair. Didn't you hear? It's WAR!

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Like the right has a corner on the hypocrisy market. Like the GOP has a corner on the philandering market. I've pretty much had a gut full of conveniently partisan sexual misadventure posts on this and every other lefty forum where I've been a member.

Like there aren't any liberal democrats who can't figure out how to keep it in their pants that we conveniently ignore.

True enough. OTOH, Democrats don't seem to make a habit of holding themselves up as the high priests of family values.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

True enough. OTOH, Democrats don't seem to make a habit of holding themselves up as the high priests of family values.

Indeed. The Missouri House voted to end their intern program over this.

Funny, I don't recall many lefties leaping to Anthony Weiner's defense for a similar escapade.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Indeed. The Missouri House voted to end their intern program over this.

Funny, I don't recall many lefties leaping to Anthony Weiner's defense for a similar escapade.

I don't remember many lefties ramming "hypocrite" down his throat either. I remember "idiot", and "moron" though. I remember Eliot Spitzer being call the same thing by lefties. Pretty innacurate to...he's a smart guy who knows the law. He's just not so hot in the sexual self self-control department. And that's my point bob. So he's a slut. So what? I'd vote for Spitzer for President. He's the one...actually the only one who took on the shyster banksters, when nobody else had the stones. He was Wall St's worst nightmare...and he could be again if the people of this country weren't so phony pious.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Indeed. The Missouri House voted to end their intern program over this.

Funny, I don't recall many lefties leaping to Anthony Weiner's defense for a similar escapade.

Probably because the university recalled all their interns like the state department does to ambassadors, so no more interns to be had.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I don't remember many lefties ramming "hypocrite" down his throat either. I remember "idiot", and "moron" though. I remember Eliot Spitzer being call the same thing by lefties. Pretty innacurate to...he's a smart guy who knows the law. He's just not so hot in the sexual self self-control department. And that's my point bob. So he's a slut. So what? I'd vote for Spitzer for President. He's the one...actually the only one who took on the shyster banksters, when nobody else had the stones. He was Wall St's worst nightmare...and he could be again if the people of this country weren't so phony pious.

While I understand and mostly agree with your sentiment, engaging in such behavior by people in high levels of the government with routine access to sensitive information is problematic due to an increased exposure to blackmail/coercion. It's how the Soviets entrapped plenty of folks into disclosing classified information and it is something scrutinized by investigators when one applies for a high level security clearance. In such instances, such behavior is bad regardless of party.

Without any national security implications, it seems worse with Bible-thumper types due to the hypocrisy angle.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Why should politicians be expected to be different from anybody else? We're humans...we cheat better than we do just about anything else. We do it interpersonally, we do it in business, we do in the legal process, why are we expected not to do it in governance.
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well said

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

.powerful politicos should not get sexually involved
interns.

why?

it is not a crime nor should it be.

so what's the problem?