The Redder They Are, The Harder They Fall --WaPo

[Demeter]

AN AMAZING PIECE OF HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100201302.html


Republicans More Damaged by Scandals

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 3, 2006; C01



Sex scandals involving politicians are as old as Thomas Jefferson, but the outcome seems to depend on which party you represent. In recent years, for the most part, Democrats have been able to survive their sordid escapades while Republicans have paid with their political lives.

The latest example: Mark Foley, a Republican congressman from Florida, who abruptly became an ex-congressman from Florida last week amid revelations that he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to teenage boys who were serving as House pages.

Foley's creepy behavior might have done him in even if he'd been the most liberal of Democrats. But that's not assured. With a Republican at the center of the seamy scandal, however, it was almost a slam-dunk that Foley would have to quit.

That's how it usually turns out for members of the conservative, traditional-family-values party. Just ask Bob Livingston, Jack Ryan, Bob Packwood, Dan Crane or others in the GOP who've watched their careers go pffft! with salacious disclosures. Or ask Bill Clinton, Gerry Studds, Barney Frank and other Democrats who've withstood embarrassing revelations to govern another day.



THIS AUTHOR HAS DIFFICULTY DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN "EMBARRASSING" AND "ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL"

[grasswire]

1. tell him so

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[ShortnFiery]

2. Yes, he conveniently forgets the distinguishing word PEDOPHILE!

[Captain Hilts]

3. Yep, someone at the WP needs to 'splain to him about pedophilia. nt

[Demeter]

And Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace

[Demeter]

4. dupe

[dsc]

5. I guess the author never heard of

Helen Chenewith, Newt Ginrich, Bob Dole, Henry Hyde, and a host of others.