Double standard in politics - What is scandalous and what is not according to the GOP

[Mass]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/political-staple-only-gop-studs-get-to.html

So I guess it's a big problem if a fully clothed Democratic female candidate is shown in some mildly naughty pictures with her husband at a private party some years back.

But this is fine: (Brown's centerfold)

Just getting the rules straight. Big time GOP studs posing completely nude in a national magazine is perfectly acceptable. Female Democrats in naughty snapshots with husband fully clothed at college party is a scandal. Check.

Don't tell me there is no sexism in politics (see also Vitter surviving Hookergate. Which woman, off both party, would have survived that).

[Cosmocat]

1. I don't know about sexism ...

Any dem who did what Brown did, male or female would have been destroyed as a politician ... Any D who would have had his name in a hooker book would have been destroyed ...

An R female who had pics like this float out would have had the entire party in line, and the MSM, saying it was out of bounds for private pictures like that to be held against her ...

There could be a sexism component, but this falls squarely into the R vs D double standards ...

[kentuck]

2. Let's see....

The Repub running for Governor of NY can send porn thru his email and threaten to "take out" a reporter and that is not as bad as an "associate" of the Dem running for Governor of CA calling his opponent a "whore"? Hmmmmmm. That's a real difficult question you ask there, grasshopper...