I wish there was a way to convince the vast majority of Americans that people that run for political office on a platform of addressing some defect in society’s sexuality almost definitely have something wrong with their own sexuality…and should not be trusted around children. I don’t really care if you are some kind of pervert as long as you keep everything consensual and don’t dabble with underage people. If you want to use an escort service, it’s really none of my business…I just hope you are courteous and don’t cause a disturbance. But, it seems like there is an unhealthy correlation between those that rail against homosexuality and those that pick up underage boys. Or between those that talk about the sanctity of marriage and abstinence and those that cheat on their wives and molest their daughter’s friends. If you see a headline that a politician has done something illegal with a child you can bet the politician was a Republican. It’s not that there aren’t Democratic sexual deviants, it’s just the vast majority of creeps and predators are members of the GOP. And they’re hypocrites.
I’m not just talking about adultery. I’m talking about sick twisted shit like this:
Richard A. Delgaudio, Republican fundraiser and Bush pioneer, was found guilty of child porn charges.
Nicholas Elizondo, Director of the Young Republican Federation molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have sex with an 8-year old child and was charged with 7 related offenses.
Jon Grunseth, Republican businessman and candidate for Minnesota governor, withdrew his candidacy after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter, and tried to grope one. “I’ve made some mistakes” he said.
Neal Horsley has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. Admitted on the Fox News Radio’s The Alan Colmes Show, that he’s had sex with mules.
Paul Ingram, Republican Party leader of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing what experts call “some of the most offensive material in the child pornography world” – a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had had his committee chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because his baby was admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around his penis that it was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children.
What explains this Republican proclivity to abuse children? I don’t know. But if a political ideology is this closely tied to the endangerment of children, it should come as no surprise that these people can’t take care of adults.
Americans need to learn: if someone tells you how to act sexually, hide your children and vote for the other party.
Amen!
So many small children to fondle but so little time.
His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children.
A wingnut former congressman and borderline Chester is her father? Oh, holy cow. The apple didn’t fall far from THAT particular tree, now did it? Ew. And according to his Wiki, he was a Bircher, too. Damn.
These are some sick, demented people. Really. You really cannot make this up.
has had sex with mules?
that is so funny on so many levels.
Even poor little Scooter wrote a porn novel.
O.T.:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hedges
via noquarter.
So did Lynn Cheney.. http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp
Here is the list I post when a wingnut screeches about liberals being so deviant or immoral….
Republican Hypocrisy Revealed
Not Every Republican is a Pedophile but Every pedophile IS A REPUBLICAN.
G.O.P: God’s Only Perverts. Another Republican pervert goes down in shame.
STOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA
was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
43. Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in
the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
44. Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six
years in prison.
45. Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of
young women.
46.Clifton Bennett, 18, the son of Arizona Senate Republican President Ken Bennett, and his co-defendant, Kyle Wheeler, 19, were charged in January with 18 counts of aggravated assault and 18 counts of kidnapping for the incidents, which happened at a youth camp last June. The younger Bennett confessed to police that he and Wheeler sodomized the 11- to 14-year-old boys with broomsticks and flashlights in at least 40 incidents, court documents show. Yavapai County prosecutors now say they’ll drop all but one assault charge and likely recommend little or no jail time if Bennett agrees to plead guilty. Wheeler has been offered a similar deal but faces an additional assault charge for choking three boys until they passed out. The plea agreements were presented in court last week and could be finalized Monday.
47. Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial and convicted of pedophilia and found guilty of “aggravated sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure.”
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GOP = GRAND OLD PEDOPHILES.
Oh Yeah, these guys represent Moral integrity and `Christian values’
Not pedophiles but good repug hypocrites just they same…
Republican activist Matthew Glavin, who preached family values, was caught masturbating in public and fondling an undercover park ranger
Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to having sex with a mule
Republican Congressman Edward Schrock resigned from Congress after he was caught searching for sex on a gay telephone service. Listen to his telephone calls by clicking these files: File 1, File 2, File 3
Republican Mayor Jim West championed an anti-gay agenda, but was later found to be gay himself
Republican preacher Jimmy Swaggart preached fidelity, but cheated on his wife with a prostitute
Republican Congressman Bob Livingston was about to vote for impeaching President Clinton for sexual improprieties until it was disclosed he was an adulterer
Republican Congressman Henry Hyde denounced President Clinton’s extramarital affair, but was later found to be an adulterer himself
Republican Senator Bob Packwood resigned from Congress after 29 women accused him of sexual harrassment
Several newspapers are now reporting that Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is dating and basically living with Callista Bisek, a “willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior.” Biske, 33, has been spending nights at Gingrich’s apartment near the Capitol and has her own key. In an amazing act of hypocrisy, Gingrich was apparently dating Bisek all during Clinton-Lewinsky adultery scandal, even as he proclaimed family values and bitterly criticized the President for his adultery.
Reporters and other Washington insiders have known about this relationship since 1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but did not have any solid proof to report. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described Bisek as Gingrich’s “frequent breakfast companion.” Gingrich was married to Marianne Gingrich during all of that time, and just filed for divorce in August 1999.
Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said “She isn’t young enough or pretty enough to be the President’s wife.” But his second marriage hasn’t been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated – “frankly”, she told the Washington Post in June 1989, “it’s been on and off for some time.”
The hospital visit wasn’t the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.
John McCain has acknowledged engaging in extramarital affairs upon returning from Vietnam. While he was in Vietnam, his wife Carol had been severely injured in a car accident. Upon returning home in 1973, McCain found his wife to be very different from when he had married her. He soon began engaging in extramarital affairs and in 1979, he met Cindy Hensley. A year later, McCain sought a divorce from Carol and a month after that, he married Cindy.
Rudy Giuliani had a high profile divorce from Donna Hanover , which he announced on public TV even before informing her. On May 10, 2000 Mr. Giuliani announced at a press conference that he was seeking a separation from his wife, Donna Hanover — without first informing her of his decision. The reason? Judith Stish Nathan Giuliani, he began dating her before his divorce from Donna Hanover, his second wife, was final.
Defense contractor, Mitchell Wade, admitted that he paid California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (republican) more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for millions more in government contracts.
Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide who posted details of her sex life on the Internet. The case brought by REPUBLICAN Sen. Mike DeWine’s former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Robert Steinbuch, alleges that Cutler engaged in an invasion of his privacy in 2004 by publishing sexually explicit facts about a relationship with Steinbuch.
Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos
Rep. Jon Hinson (R-Miss.)
On Aug. 8, 1980, during his first reelection bid, Hinson stunned everyone by announcing that in 1976 he had been accused of committing an obscene act at a gay haunt in Virginia. Hinson, married and a strong conservative, added that in 1977 he had survived a fire in a gay D.C. movie theater. He was making the disclosure, he said, because he needed to clear his conscience. But he denied he was a homosexual and refused GOP demands that he resign. Hinson won reelection in a three-way race, with 39 percent of the vote. But three months later, he was arrested on charges of attempted oral sodomy in the restroom of a House office building. He resigned his seat on April 13, 1981.
Rep. Ernie Konnyu (R-Calif.)
In August 1987, two former Konnyu aides complained to the San Jose Mercury News that the freshman Republican had sexually harassed them.
A pastor who worked with young adults at New Life Church has admitted sexual misconduct and resigned just weeks after former church leader Ted Haggard stepped down over sexual immorality. Christopher Beard, who headed the ”twentyfourseven” ministry that taught leadership skills to young adults, resigned Friday, said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor at the 14,000-member church.
On November 3, 2006, he resigned his leadership of the National Association of Evangelicals and stepped aside as pastor of his church after allegations of homosexual sex and drug abuse were made by a former male prostitute and masseur Mike Jones. Mr Jones alleged to the press that Haggard engaged in sex with him for three years and used crystal methamphetamine.
Republican Party Chairman Sam Walls, who is married, was urged to drop his candidacy for Congress when it was found he likes to dress up in women’s clothing.
Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.
A South Carolina lawmaker pleaded no contest Thursday to threatening to beat and sexually assault a man dating his estranged wife. He was fined $500. State Rep. Thad Viers (R), 29, left court immediately and declined to comment. The misdemeanor unlawful communication charge carried a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail.
Let the wingnuts know who some of their fellow travelers really are……..
See “The Franklin Coverup Hoax” in wikipedia. Of course, on the basis of such a short and easy trip to wikipedia, I’m very suspicious of your entire list.
There’s more to that whole story than a mere Grand Jury dismassal.
I think Real History Lisa wrote a diary about the cover-up.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2006/10/1/25944/5420
The video linked in Lisa’s diary doesn’t work.
After the recantations and the grand jury dismissal of all ‘sex’ charges, I think we should not continue to believe the charges are true (even though ya never know, right?). The list should not include any items that are widely and credibly called hoaxes.
And OJ is not guilty also…hmm.
It seems a lot more likely that the grand jury was a sham than that hundreds of people were involved in concocting this story. Some of the people who recanted did so out of fear for their lives. Read this and try to maintain it was all a hoax…
You missed Philip Giordano, the former Repulican Waterbury, CT mayor:
That republican family values story was from June 2003. In 2000 Giordano ran as a the GOP Senate candidate against Lieberman.
Almost forgot… The two young girls were 8 and 10 years old at the time.
Check out #5 on the list, he’s there……
Tucker Carlson says that Vitter isn’t a hypocrite because he says that Vitter said adultery was wrong and he still is saying it is wrong.
But Vitter demanded Clinton resign, so there is the hypocrisy.
Vitter can’t be much of a man if he can’t live up to his own standards.
Good point Boo, and commenters — but I would leave Mary Kay LeTourneau out of it, it’s not the same thing …
I’m with you. Digging things up about politician’s family members is going to far.
Wolverine and Priscianus, where have you two been for the past 11 years or so?
Under normal circumstances, I’d agree with wolverine writer’s observation about “digging up dirt on family members.”
But MK Letourneau is an entirely different story.
Surely you won’t suggest that just because MK’s vic was a boy, she was any less guilty of child abuse than her daddy?
Nope, the old “boys will be boys” nonsense doesn’t fly any more. It’s still child abuse.
Legally it comes under that category. And certainly women can be involved in sexually abusive behavior with boys. But this particular case is psychologically way more complex than that, and very unusual. She was not a serial abuser, which is typical of sex offenders. She paid her debt to society, married the guy, bore his children. I don’t believe she was ever a politician or that she went around hypocritically pontificated about sexual morality.
There is the virtue of prudence (phronesis — an understanding leading to right action), but also, closely allied to it, the virtue that Aquinas calls “gnomé” –the ability to recognize exceptional circumstances.
It mirrors the Islamic fundamentalists’ warped beliefs about sex.
Queens pol is eyed in sexual assault
Cop raid hunts blood, women’s items
BY CHRISTINA BOYLE, ERNIE NASPRETTO and FRANK LOMBARDI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Posted Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 4:00 AM
Police raided the office of Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher looking for evidence that he sexually assaulted a woman, authorities said yesterday.
Gallagher, 43, who is married with two teenage sons, is accused – but not formally charged – of assaulting a woman Sunday night in his Middle Village office at 78-25 Metropolitan Ave.
The Monday search included checking for “blood and women’s articles” and going through the Republican lawmaker’s garbage, two sources said.
[There’s more at this link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/11/2007-07-11_queens_pol_is_eyed_in_sexual_assault.html,
but wait for it . . . .]
Gallagher is one of three Republicans on the 51-member body. He was first elected in 2001 and will be forced to leave office in 2009 due to term limits.
Queens GOP Chairman Phil Ragusa said he found the news reports about Gallagher “shocking” and hard to believe.
flombardi@nydailynews.com
Transcript from Fox News Radio:
“Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I…”
AC: “You had sex with animals?”
NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”
AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”
NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”
AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”
NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”
VERY DISTURBING…..VERY DISTURBING!
Isn’t that hilarious?
not any more hilarious than J.Edgar Hoover dressing up in women’s underwear.
speaking of which.
I’m sure the following duplicates — for the most part — what has already been posted/listed here….but just in case it doesn’t:
http://www.armchairsubversive.com
It was particularly interesting, e.g., when I first read it, that our illustrous Attorney General Abu Gonzo was ALSO a part of a cover-up of the HUGE Texas state pedophile SCANDAL at the reform schools (children being used by the guards, etc.)….in which he (and Chimp?) saw to it that all the indictments that the entire Texas Commissioners had worked hard on to get and bring….were dropped ….in hopes the whole SCANDAL would just fade away. Apparently it has.
Except in the minds of those children….forever.
But, hey, it’s what Chimpy wants. Whatever Chimpy wants, Chimpy gets. He’s the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF you know. As he constantly…puffily….strutingly….reminds everyone….at every turn.
Also of interest, the following Glenn Greenwald:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/increasing-desperation.html
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Increasing desperation
There is a palpable desperation among Republicans as a result of the Foley scandal and related election troubles, which is giving rise to a significant increase in their willingness to peddle blatantly dishonest and irrational claims in order to save themselves. Let us begin with Bill Kristol, who uttered what I think is the single most despicable statement yet in the Foley scandal, when he was asked by Brit Hume on Fox News what Democrats might do if they takeover the House:
KRISTOL: Well, Democrats care about the children, Brit, and so I think they should pressure states to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 so that it’s clearly illegal for people like Mark Foley to hit on 17-year- old pages. . . . They could certainly pass a resolution supporting the Boy Scouts in their effort to keep people like Mark Foley from becoming scout masters, I think the Democrats could really do a lot of good for our children.
The controversial Boy Scouts policy to which Kristol is referring, of course, is one which bans gay men generally — not “people like Mark Foley” — from being scoutmasters, but Kristol’s statement purposely recognizes no such distinction. Kristol is overtly arguing that the Mark Foley case proves that gay men cannot be trusted around young children. Many of the basest right-wing commentators have subtly implied that equivalence, but none has so overtly equated the two as explicitly as Kristol did Thursday night….” excerpt
These — ReTHUGlicans…..are truly despicable….no question about it.
And, when you establish a policy that says…shows….that “ANYTHING GOES”…..then….ANYTHING GOES:
Here is a video you will be hearing about in the days ahead — about, among other things, the shocking rapes of a 15-year-old virgin girl (I assume Iraqi) …who then hanged herself.
These are War Crimes, and I only hope George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney are held responsible for them….by someone with actual courage.
If there is anyone like that — maybe in some other country somewhere.
Oops!
I forgot to put the video site on my last post:
http://tinyurl.com/2jwaxr