Missouri Speaker Resigns after SexTexting exposed
 

http://www.kansascity.com/news/gover...e20822424.html

After reading the text screenshots, I just wanted to point out one comment made in the Star comment section:

Brian Radcliffe · Top Commenter
Under Missouri law, marriage is a sacred bond between one man, one woman and one quivering intern.
Reply · · 40 · Yesterday at 2:31pm

Ed Minges · Top Commenter · Wichita State University
Only if you're very, very lucky.
Reply · · 3 · Yesterday at 2:39pm

That is all. I don't come over very often so may not be responding much. Cheers!

Hey Mech, Good to see ya! :)

I think the guy is an idiot for resigning.

Diehl did right to resign...powerful politicos should not get sexually involved
interns.

A bigger idiot to have an ongoing affair and sexting with an intern. Even Clinton got caught. ;)

Hoisted on his own little petard. :rolleyes:

He replaced the dude who was intimately involved with a 14 year old and resigned.

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.

If somebody's doing their job and gets caught with their hand in the sexual cookie jar, what does that have to do with their job performance? We appreciate the spectacular performances of great actors and don't give their hopping in and out of bed with each other a second thought. As it should be...after all, it's none of our business.

America...the land of the incessantly provincial and the home of the phony pious.:rolleyes:

http://www.trbimg.com/img-55559c7b/t...01/800/800x450

"Until his resignation from office on Thursday, the 49-year-old Diehl had been a hard-charging player in his state’s politics. As the leader of a dominant Republican majority, the speaker was counted as Missouri’s second-most-powerful state politico, next to Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. Not at all surprisingly, the married father of three has always run as a family values candidate. The Missouri Family Policy Council, an arm of the right-wing evangelical Family Research Council, has praised Diehl “for demonstrating moral leadership and true integrity in standing up for the sacred institution of marriage and the family values of the people of Missouri.” The state’s arm of the Southern Baptist Convention offered thanks to Diehl for “fighting to defend biblical marriage.” LATimes

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topof...514-story.html

Great toon Bob and thanks. :D

;) 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.

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

;)

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. ;)

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.

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

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.

well said

why?

it is not a crime nor should it be.

so what's the problem?

Stupidity.

Idiots, morons and jerks take a vote... big deal.

Please read Post #18 for your answer.

Finn is gonna argue that their dalliance will leave them vulnerable to blackmail and other coercion that would threaten our national security. Ehhhh...I dunno. Nobody in the corporate boardrooms seems to be worrying about blackmail or coercion...they keep boinking the administrative assistants like there's no tomorrow. And I depend on them for a lot of my financial security these days. What scares me more? My compromised national security or my compromised financial security? The latter, I'm sure. And if we weren't such a nation of tight ass quasi-puritans we wouldn't give a shit about blackmail or coercion.

Some French politician gets caught having a fling and it's just another day at the office.

It comes down to trust, if a person isn't trustworthy in their most personal relationship, how can they be trusted otherwise.

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Oversimplification.

What we have here is a State University student assigned as an intern as part of her education to an elected government official, volunteering her services. It's a matter of public trust and if violating this means nothing to you, you should consider becoming a libertarian. One can claim that the woman in question was a willing participant. Even so the man should have known better under the circumstances.

As to CEO's boinking administrative assistants, that is a private matter.

I really don't think somebody's personal life is any of my business. If they're doing something illegal or unethical (and I just don't believe that being "Client 9" is unethical), that can be a problem. But sending gross selfies over the internet...I got actual important stuff to worry about.

If it weren't so, it wouldn't have been one of the primary methodologies of Soviet agents trying to compromise Western officials. Would I prefer that we had the public morals of the French? Sure. But we don't (nor does my wife;)).

See post #9 Ike. He's a bible thumpin', family values, anti-gay hypocrite.

I saw post 9 bob. He's a state legislator from some shithole in Missouri. Who cares If he's a bible thumping, family values, gay bashing hypocrite. Its a distraction. Eveybody knows these hypocrites are out there. Frankly, every time somebody rolls over a rock and finds one of these bugs underneath it...I don't need to be reminded anymore.

Fair enough.

It is a power issue.

And that's a concern. And if the people of Missouri believe that this guy coerced a vulnerable adult woman into a sexual relationship (or for that matter, coerced any other adult person into any activity they might otherwise have rejected) they can run his hypocrite lame ass out of the Missouri state legislature. But it's Missouri, which is almost Kansas, so who can say?

So in other words the bit in the marriage ceremony where they say;

"take this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity"

. . .it is just a few meaningless words? Who knew?



Not a crime but a civil offense called adultery and can get you divorced in a hurry.

Does this mean he will run for Congress like his buddy Sanford?


Carl

Born again politician after he humbles himself before god and begs for forgiveness of course. :rolleyes:

Yes a legitimate one since those in a position of power can wield extraordinary
pressure... especially when an intern is so low on the totem pole.

Ah but she was just a girl/woman all of whom were simply put on earth for men's amusement. Don't mind me I just got through joining HeForShe I can highly recommend it.

www.heforshe.org

mUCH RESPECT FOR pAT BUT i DON'T BUY IT.


Anyone can be blackmailed for about anything. It's simply not a direct cause/effect.

No one on this planet is trust worthy with the possible exception of mom.

Makes me think of this BB King oldie but goodie. :p
Nobody Loves Me But My Mother


Carl