The New Rep Party

[DanaC]

I think the list that rk posted really isn't to do with republican politicians being gay....it's about republican politicians being paedophiles. So....what Rk has proved isn't that Republicans can be gay too....so much as that there appears to be a significant number of republican politicians who've been caught out as paedophiles. It still makes their family values campaign a little rich...but I am a little uneasy at the linkage between homosexuality and paedophilia in this thread. The two are not the same. Gay men find other men attractive...paedophiles find children attractive.


But hey...thankgod the moral republican minority was there to hound Clinton for his indiscretions with a consenting adult female eh?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I think the list that rk posted really isn't to do with republican politicians being gay....it's about republican politicians being paedophiles. So....what Rk has proved isn't that Republicans can be gay too....so much as that there appears to be a significant number of republican politicians who've been caught out as paedophiles. It still makes their family values campaign a little rich...but I am a little uneasy at the linkage between homosexuality and paedophilia in this thread. The two are not the same. Gay men find other men attractive...paedophiles find children attractive.


But hey...thankgod the moral republican minority was there to hound Clinton for his indiscretions with a consenting adult female eh?

Yea, them and Catholic Priests, real stand up citizens. Most people look at priests now days and wonder what little boy's in their congregation they are having sex with.

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Yea, them and Catholic Priests, real stand up citizens. Most people look at priests now days and wonder ...

Kids are off-limits. Red-heads are the newest thrill? From the NY Times of 8 Nov 2007:

Priest Accused of Stalking Conan O'Brien
A priest has been arrested on charges of stalking late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien by writing him threatening notes on parish letterhead, contacting his parents and showing up at his studio, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Rev. David Ajemian, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston, was arrested last week while trying to enter a taping session of NBC's ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' at New York's Rockefeller Plaza, said Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan prosecutor's office.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

But hey...thankgod the moral republican minority was there to hound Clinton for his indiscretions with a consenting adult female eh?

A good many of them weren't consenting. Others, Monica Lewinsky prominent among them, were looking for love in all the wrong places. You look at the kind of women he fucked or harassed and you conclude here is a sexual predator snapping up his opportunities. Set that next to a Presidency with just about nil legacy, and there you have the character of the man.

It's just one of the many sorry things about modern Democratic Party types that a guy who really just can't keep it zipped was their standardbearer, their best, their brightest. Fu-uuck.

Not the sort of chap who had me fooled. But still, he made a patsy of the American electorate, and got reelected.

[richlevy]

And yet the person who got skewered the worst by making any kind of accusation was Anita Hill. I don't think any Democrats went after any of Clinton's accusers the way Republicans went after her.

Unfortunately, some of the most dynamic and effective presidents in our history were alleged to have had affairs - , FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Clinton.

Some of the worst were never accused of this - Nixon and GWB. Even poor Carter, who was blasted for being ineffectual, was a deeply moral man who tried to not even 'lust in his heart'.

Charismatic presidents usually end up getting laid. If Viagra had been invented while Reagan was in office, he probably would have banged his intern and half of the Daughters of the American Revolution.