Reply #8: I would respectfully disagree. . . [View All]

[Journeyman]

There are any number of critical issues for which I'd like to see the entire BushCo Cabal suffer and be held to account, but infidelity and drug use (legal or not), the indiscretions of their children, or any number of "victimless" crimes are issues I'd rather not see take center stage (or even lurk within the wings) of the politcal landscape.

Yes, the media and the Republicans made infinite jest and fodder of President Clinton's indiscretions, and payback, indeed, would have a sweet touch. But I adamantly opposed what was done to Bill Clinton and I won't be a hypocrite by seeking to do the same to others, even those slime who used their faux outrage at Clinton to favor their own aspirations.

So whether that Dick, Cheney, was fooling around or drinking is not an issue with me. If he was drunk when he shot his friend, then his actions (both his drunkenness and his reprehensible criminal act) are an issue -- but not the drinking in and of itself. And if he was philandering, that's an issue for he and Mrs Cheney -- unless it can be shown his paramour was a "Mata Hari" and he was trading lives for escapades, in which case his private indiscretions do become our public affair.