A lot of Republicans who want to be president got their picture taken with a child molester

[muriel_volestrangler]

With that in mind — and with a Twitter assist from former Family Research Council employee Josh Duggar of the sexing and baby-making Duggar breeding line– here are some photos of GOP candidates taken with Josh. There probably won’t be any new ones forthcoming from him despite the fact that he is expected to have a lot of time on his hands going forward because it turns out he was pretty forward with where he put his hands when with the young gals… including his sisters.

Ew.

During Josh’s brief public career shaming the pervs for Jesus, he was always willing to gladhand a politician who came to him hoping some of that Duggar magic would rub off. Now it seems it may not have “technically” been “magic.”

Jeb Heb Bush:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/557904973431058432/photo/1
Jindal:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/515610771599155200/photo/1
Perry:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/498577445726216192/photo/1
Walker:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/600736411331985408/photo/1
Huckabee:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/599576987909419008/photo/1
Santorum:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/597530920304955392/photo/1
Cruz:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/596009631438270464/photo/1

And because the GOP race is so unsettled and ANYTHING can happen - 2 Palins:
http://twitter.com/joshduggar/status/571122758685462528/photo/1
Note his hands.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/a-lot-of-republicans-who-want-to-be-president-got-their-picture-taken-with-a-child-molester/

[Buzz Clik]

1. meh

There are more important issues than this.

[brucefan]

2. Yea

Because Republicans would never bring up stupid shit like Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers.

[Buzz Clik]

25. So let's emulate the knuckledraggers....

... and act like total dumb shits.

[brucefan]

27. Ah Bullshit

When I see their hypocrisy I like to throw it right back in their slimy faces.

[Buzz Clik]

31. Sure. By whatever means. Including photos with people they may not know.

And certainly they don't endorse his behavior.

[brucefan]

35. I Know

But I want to hear them say it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. 'total dumb shits' bringing up a Republican politician covering up child molestation?

Who, after ignoring the molestation of his own daughters (during his campaign to become a US senator), went on to build a 'family values' image on national TV that ended up with the molester becoming executive director of the Family Research Council PAC? Where they hypocritically accuse LGBT rights of endangering children? And Republican politicians queue up to have their photo taken with the hypocritical molester?

Like, totally dumb, dude.

[Buzz Clik]

30. Those pictures have NOTHING to do with child molestation. At all.

They were opportunistic photo ops by a dipshit with his folk heroes.

[Agschmid]

32. Yup.

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Apart from the child molester in them, and the fellow Republican politicians of his protector?

Who happily posed with him for the political purposes they share with him and the father who covered up for him? No, nothing to do with child molestation.

Part of the point is that Josh Duggar had gone into Republican politics too - executive director of the Family Research Council PAC - and they were just as eager to pose with a political reality TV star like him as he was with them.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. Then go deal with them.

[Buzz Clik]

24. You bet.

I will deal with environmental issues and you keep track of people getting their pictures taken with politicians.

[BlueStater]

36. Oh, get off your high horse.

Having a little fun at Republican expense means we don't care about environmental issues?

[Rex]

7. .

[marym625]

4. YIKES!

I think posing with a child molester is pretty important. Thanks for posting

[FSogol]

5. Huckabee, Walker, and Santorum all have the same creepy smile. They could all be separted from

Duggar at birth!

[Ilsa]

6. Sarah looks like she's enjoying him

copping a feel on camera.

[RockaFowler]

8. That picture is really disturbing

3 people who never take responsibility for their actions - it's always someone else's fault.

[tridim]

9. Josh Duggar is the GOP nexus.

He really ties the room together.

Good luck with that, clowns.

Which one is the creep again?

[lonestarnot]

10. Why would that stop the grand ol pervs?

[malaise]

11. A delish thread

K & R

Would love to see these on Rachel tonight

[Botany]

12. Grifters gotta grift

And it looks like good old Josh Dugger has been on the God is a republican gravy train.

[mountain grammy]

13. Faith, family and freedom,

The 'f' words used by the GOP to 'f'uck us all.

[Tom Ripley]

14. Babyhead Kidtoucher really gets around

[Dont call me Shirley]

15. Incest is no laughing matter, it destroys victims lives! They are forever mangled by the

traumatizing events. When the rest of the family protects the incestor and not the victim add another assault to the initial crime.

The duggars are sick sick sick people just like the people who promote them, protect them and encourage them. The disgusting creeps who promote this mysogynistic family and the family themselves deserve public shame and humiliation, not fame and fortune.

Shame is the moral compass. No shame, no compass.

[Sunlei]

16. should take a look at all Repub. political charity>> "Family Research Council employees"

most of them are probably there to be republican photo op 'pets'.

[cheyanne]

17. Does anyone have a link to information about the daughters?

Were they given any kind of help at the time?

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Josh claimed they were, but since his parents lied about getting him treatment, it may be a lie too

"Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends," Josh, 27, tells PEOPLE in a statement. "I confessed this to my parents who took several steps to help me address the situation. We spoke with the authorities where I confessed my wrongdoing, and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life."

(As Libby Anne points out in the link below, he found out 'it could ruin his life'. Not a word about the victims - "those affected by my actions". That indicates the 'counseling' was pretty damn crappy.)

http://www.people.com/article/josh-duggar-molestation-accusations-duggars-respond

Jim Bob was called in and interviewed. He stated that Josh had sexually molested several girls over the course of a year. Jim Bob knew of this beginning in March 2002, when Josh was 14. Josh’s victims were children younger than him, and in some cases significantly so. For an entire year Jim Bob knew what was happening, but did not go to the police or seek treatment or outside intervention. In March 2003, with the incidents of molestation still occurring, Jim Bob said he and the elders at his church, to whom he had gone for advice, agreed that Josh should enter a treatment program.

But when one of the elders at Jim Bob’s church suggested sending Josh to a legitimate treatment program, Jim Bob demurred, reasoning that Josh would likely be exposed to more serious offenders and that that was not appropriate for the nature of his offense. So instead of sending Josh to an actual treatment program, Jim Bob sent him to Little Rock for four months to help a family friend with some remodeling.

When Josh returned in July 2003, Jim Bob took Josh to speak with a state trooper he knew personally about what had happened. The trooper gave Josh “a very stern talk” but didn’t file a report, reportedly reasoning that nothing needed to be done because Josh had already gone through a treatment program. Except of course that helping a family friend in Little Rock do some remodeling is not a treatment program. (The trooper who spoke with Josh was later convicted of child pornography.)

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2015/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-josh-duggar-police-report.html

Jim Bob was, of course, a Republican politician, thankfully losing the Republican primary for the Arkansas US Senate seat while this was going on:

From 1999 to 2002, Duggar served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for the sixth district, which included part of northern Washington County, Arkansas. Duggar was vice chair of the House Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee and also participated in the Insurance and Commerce Committee and Judiciary Committee.

He also ran in the Republican Party of Arkansas primary election for the United States Senate in 2002, but lost to Tim Hutchinson. Duggar sought the Republican nomination to the Arkansas State Senate District 35 seat in 2006, but lost to candidate Bill Pritchard by 200 votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bob_Duggar

[wolfie001]

19. Fake Fox News won't cover this for sure!!!!! nt

[Jim Lane]

20. And Democratic politicians have posed with assorted felons, pre-arrest.

I'll bet Duggar was pretty good at hiding his true nature. A politician stopping by for a photo op can't reasonably be expected to have investigated the other person enough to uncover crimes that had eluded every professional law enforcement agency.

[RockaFowler]

22. These pictures were just taken

The news had come out the end of last week and the beginning of this week. He may have hid it, but it was out there in the media and people were saying it wasn't true (mostly his family). It wasn't until In Touch and Gawker had done their investigation that the family had to fess up. These pictures are taken this week in the middle of all of this. So the politicians knew he was a homophobic bigot child molester and they still posed for a picture with him. All that Family Values shit is really looking good right now

[Jim Lane]

23. That's not how I read it.

I'm not voting for any of these clowns anyway, so I'm not going to delve into it, but I looked at the first picture, of him with Heb. Under it is a line reading "6:18 AM - 21 Jan 2015". Doesn't that mean the pic is a few months old?

[packman]

21. When I read your post headline

I fully expected Ted Nugent posing with Republican candidates

[Gore1FL]

29. Me too! n/t

[maryellen99]

26. And Huckabee just posted on his FB page that he still supports The Duggars

[PufPuf23]

34. People capable of such denial have no business in positions of responsibilty to others.

Irks me that the Duggars are in my consciousness.