What is it with Republicans and smut?

[kpete]

David Rossie: The purple prose of 'Scooter'

What is it with Republicans and smut? What is it that prompts the self-proclaimed paragons of moral values to commit prose that is at once prurient and putrid?

Consider the GOP gallery of purple prose purveyors:

William Safire, Newt Gingrich, Lynne Cheney, G. Gordon Liddy, William Buckley and Kenneth Starr. And let's not forget Bill O'Reilly, whose unwanted phone sex messages to a female colleague cost him a bundle in an out-of-court settlement.

Some might argue that it is unfair to include Starr in that crowd, but not if they read the pious pornographer's report of his investigation of the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater and Just Plain Bill's sordid romp with Monica Lewinsky and sundry others. According to Lauren Collins, writing in The New Yorker, in 1998 the Starr Report was nominated for consideration in the bad fictional sex writing contest that Britain's Literary Review holds each year.

http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op111305s202542.shtml

[NVMojo]

1. either they are frigid or they dislike their woodies ...

[LoKnLoD]

2. They are repressed....nt

[WePurrsevere]

3. Too much repression probably. Freud would have had a ball with these folks

n/t

[EVDebs]

4. I'll bet it's their being "control phreaks" ... and sex = loss of control

Don't ya'all think ?

[necso]

5. Many have made sex

into something "bad" in their minds.

And since this increases (can increase) its (already natural) attraction for them, they (can) become obsessed with it.

And since sex is already a matter of "sin" to them, further steps in the direction of (what they see as) "sin" (can) seem very small -- and (can) become matters of even greater obsession for them.

In addition, they are prone to mixing up and misdirecting their natural drives (repression contributes to this, I think), so that domination, self-gratification, reproduction and perhaps other (misdirected) drives get twisted into one ugly mess.

[applegrove]

6. They all dream of being the "new" Ayn Rand. That way people

like baby Greenspan would sit had their feet and kiss them.