Well, of course, the Democrats are largely amateurs compared to Conservative Republicans when it comes to sex scandals. Democrats have quite a laundry list, to be sure, but it's really small potatoes when you compare it to the Republicans. A lot of the stuff Democrats do, as bad as it is, in many cases pales in comparison to some of the stunts pulled off by Republicans, in no small part because the GOP is the self-proclaimed Morality Party of the country, and then they get caught it just reeks of hypocrisy, especially when they want the embarrasser to just resign and be quiet, out of sight, out of mind. Go away.
Our nation, spurred on by the morally outraged Republicans, spent more tax money conducting Ken Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, than we spent on the investigation of the 911 attacks on the United States. I guess it's important to spend the big bucks on the stuff that really matter, huh.
Taking a picture of your underwear-covered junk and then sending it to someone on the Internet is just horrible, lacking in decency and all morality. No-body does that, ever! OMG, what a scumbag. But how does that compare to the ever-popular Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia who sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." Hedonism, indeed. He was married three times, and paid for his second wife's abortion (she also suspected he was cheating on her). He failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives, and while married to his third wife he was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party. Licking whipped cream off strippers. Wow. That's a pro right there.
No? Not juicy enough? OK, how about Mark Foley. You remember him, surely. Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages via an instant messenger program, which went on for ten years. The conversations included his asking a sixteen-year-old "stud" whether his penis was erect and requesting that he take out and measure his penis. I wonder if he took a picture and sent it via a MMS? The cover-up involved Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Eighth Congressional District and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Illinois Fourteenth District. Now that's some real professional teamwork hypocrisy, I'm telling ya.
Joe Scarborough, you know him. Former Republican Congressman, is currently a conservative talk show host. He resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair with his intern, Lori Klausutis. Soon after he resigned his seat, Lori Klaustis was found dead in Scarborough's office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury." Even Teddy was impressed by that one.
Then of course there's Newt, who got a hummer from a campaign worker while he was married to his first wife. You know the rest. And there's the Jim Bakkers and Ted Haggards, and of course, Senator Larry Craig who solicited sex from an undercover cop in an airport restroom.
Conservatives point to these, and there are many, many more I could cite, and say, "They're not us! Those people are not true conservatives, or nor true Christians, or something else that makes them not us." But the problem is, yes they are. And that's the most hypocritical of all.
So here we have a wiener who texted a wiener, and the Democrats and trying to get it over and done with, and the Republicans are overreacting. And if Wiener was a Republican the Republicans would be trying to get it over and done with and the Democrats would be overreacting.
It was a photograph of his junk in underwear. OMG, the way some of the Republicans are reacting, you'd think it was a photograph of Weiner doing Arnold Schwarzenegger's maid.
