Culture Of Corruption Thins Ranks Of Star Dems, Creates Convention Void
Call girls, little white lies, big fat fibs, wavering loyalties, wincing spouses, unfortunate remarks, questionable use of campaign funds and, yes, one possible love child.
A newly realized culture of seduction has cast a potential pall over the Democratic convention this week and diminished the role of certain party luminaries and up-and-comers who could have had starring roles at the podium.
Their passions clouded their reputations, at least temporarily, and it happened only two years after Democrats captured control of Congress from a scandal-scarred GOP it blasted for promoting a “culture of corruption” on Capitol Hill.
The Democratic convention has billed itself to be green, all-American and diverse. But it’s not necessarily forgiving.
There is a roster of rejects expected to be absent from the proceedings, which begin in a matter of hours. Former presidential hopeful John Edwards won’t be there. Neither will former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - all passed up for a pivotal moment before tens of thousands of Democratic loyalists after their sexual dalliances became public.
“A silver lining in these scandals is that infidelity is still scandalous. This shows that all the efforts to discount Bill Clinton’s cheating as ‘just sex’ didn’t change the national perception - or even Democrats’ - that fidelity matters,” said Wendy Wright, president of the Concerned Women for America.
“Infidelity - sexual or financial - carries national security risks, making a politician vulnerable to blackmail or criminal behavior to cover up his actions. But it also betrays a lack of character and good judgment, that he is willing to sacrifice everything that matters, even people who depend on him, for something not nearly as important,” she added.
Yet in a troubled post-911, post-Monica Lewinsky world, does yet another story about yet another unfaithful politician still resonate with the public? Some think not.
“There are two trend lines that would indicate these concerns will not be a factor. One, the anxiety level in the public is so deep and serious right now that some of the trivial, sensational issues are not going to have the impact they had in the past,” said Democratic consultant Dan Gerstein.
“The second thing is that it’s a mistake to think the public only sees imperfection and failings of just the other side. Both parties have their share of peccadilloes. For every Eliott Spitzer and John Edwards, there’s a Larry Craig or a Mark Foley,” Mr. Gerstein said.
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# 2 Peter 2:17
* The Message (MSG)
August 24th, 2008 at 7:27 amThere’s nothing to these people—they’re dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they’re dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for if they’re addicted to corruption—and they are—they’re enslaved.
2 Peter 2:16-18 (in Context) 2 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter)
and the media loves to forget to mention they’re Democrats when the story is first released.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:39 amyeah Tom but when its a Republican they have neon signs on the screen with REPUBLICAN in capital letters.
screw the MSM and how they always give the dems a free pass.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Whats wrong? :?:why won’t you post me 
August 24th, 2008 at 8:26 amAfter all of the empty promises and outright lies made by the Dems prior to the 2006 election, American taxpayers got absolutely nothing for their support.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:38 amSorry… I will be more patient
August 24th, 2008 at 8:40 amYou know if they were Republicans, there would have been 1,000 MSM stories on TV constantly about “all the Republican sex scandals.” The article forgot McGreavy of NJ. What a joke. When that idiot Larry Craig was caught in a bathroom, it was blasted on the TV, etc. contantly for weeks and weeks–it was sickening. So all the kids in America got to hear about it.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:42 amWhat “the kids” in America hear and see is fucking whenever the desire strikes is as natural as quenching ones thirst.
What is wrong with it…I found out THE HARD WAY. Here is some secular “scientific” research that I see as God’s order of life…
You FUCK around and it WILL Fuck-up your head.
Maybe not his but FOR SURE hers and then the whole culture/society falls apart. Just my humble opinion…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_4_43/ai_n17094100/pg_2
August 24th, 2008 at 9:26 am
WTF?
August 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
ditto
August 24th, 2008 at 1:31 pmEh…
August 24th, 2008 at 2:24 pmHoookaaaaay!!
August 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pmOn August 27, 2007 the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call revealed that Craig had been arrested for lewd conduct in the men’s bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on June 11, 2007, and entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct on August 8, 2007.
On March 10, 2008, The New York Times reported that Spitzer had previously patronized a high-priced prostitution service called Emperors Club VIP[70] and met for over two hours with a $1,000-an-hour call girl New York City singer going by the name Ashley Alexandra Dupré (legal name Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, born Ashley Youmans).[71] This information originally came to the attention of authorities from a federal wiretap.[72][73][74][75] Spitzer had at least seven or eight liaisons with women from the agency over six months, and paid more than $15,000.
In October 2007 The National Enquirer began a series of reports alleging an adulterous affair between Edwards and former campaign worker Rielle Hunter. By July 2008, several news media outlets speculated that Edwards’ chances for the vice presidency may have been harmed by the allegations, which now included that he fathered a child with Hunter and had visited her and the baby girl at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. However, the story was not widely covered by the press for some time,[70] until an outright admission was made by Edwards himself. Edwards stated “I’ve responded, consistently, to these tabloid allegations by saying I don’t respond to these lies and you know that.”[71][72][73][74][75]
However, in an August 8, 2008 statement,[76] and an interview with Bob Woodruff of ABC News, Edwards admitted the affair with Hunter in 2006 but denied being the father of her child. He acknowledged that he had been dishonest in denying the entire Enquirer story, admitting that some of it was true, but said that the affair ended long before the time of the child’s conception. He further said he was willing to take a paternity test but Hunter responded that she would not be party to a DNA test “now or in the future.
On September 28, 2006, ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross reported that, in 2005, Foley had sent email messages from his personal AOL account to a former Congressional page, asking the page to send a photo of himself to Foley, among other things.[24] Foley’s office confirmed that Foley had sent the messages but said it has a practice of asking for photos of individuals who may ask for recommendations and that the page had requested a recommendation.
The original news report prompted another page to come forward and on September 29, 2006, ABC News reported that it had seen excerpts of sexually explicit instant messages allegedly sent by Foley.[25] The instant messages made repeated references to sexual organs and acts.
Courtesy of wikipedia, (not exactly a conservative bastion).
Allegations against Republicans….. gross misconduct and adultery by democrats, and this gerstein idiot wants to make moral equivocations?
August 24th, 2008 at 4:50 pm“For every Eliott Spitzer and John Edwards, there’s a Larry Craig or a Mark Foley,” Mr. Gerstein said.”
OK…I don’t like to play the moral equivalent game too much but wiggling your foot in a bathroom stall and sending suggestive text messages doesn’t rise to the level of laying with hookers or fathering a child out of wedlock when your wife has cancer (or not).
The MSM usually leads a story with “Republican (senator, congressman, candidate, mayor, etc.), while one has to search a whole article to find any references to a democRat’s party affiliation. Usually you come up empty when trying to do so.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pmJarhead 68, you are saying that Craig intending to get a blowjob in a public bathroom doesn’t rise to the level of Spitzer paying for a hooker? If you actually believe that he was a victim of an overzealous cop, lets look at the facts. Craig was lingering outside the bathroom noticeably long (according to the cop), maybe he was keeping an eye on the flight monitor. He makes eye contact through the door crack multiple times with the undercover officer, before choosing the stall next to him, maybe he thought he recognized the cop as a friend. He sits in the stall for 13 minutes and then begins tapping his foot (according to the cop this is a signal for sex), maybe he was tapping to the beat of a song he had in his head. He slides his foot over to the cop’s foot and leaves it touching his foot while his is half naked taking a shit, maybe he doesn’t realize he was touching the guy’s foot. He begins to swipe his hand under the stall multiple times, maybe trying to borrow some toilet paper. All of these actions are circumstantial. He then pays the citation, thus admitting guilt. Either Senator Craig is a gay, bathroom-sex-loving senator, or he is the stupidest man on earth. Fight the citation if you are innocent.
Foley was not just sending text messages Dacoelec, he was trying to get teenage boys to perform sexual favors on him (consult your own source Wikipedia), and if you can remember from Dateline NBC, intetent is EVERYthing. The point is, there are scandals on both sides of the aisle, neither party is immune to the realities of life. It’s just disingenuous to say it happens more for one party than the other.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:21 am