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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 598543" data-attributes="member: 17969"><p>Well Tieguy, I for one, will never accuse you of being "informed" on political issues. But, just for kicks, how about a little reading for your political education?</p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Republican cheaters go way back in history </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> The list of prominent Republicans who cheated on their spouses went way back in American history. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> James Garfield, who was president from 1880 to 1884, reportedly had an extramarital affair with Lucia Calhoun in the 1860s. His wife, Lucretia, discovered the liaison and made him choose between staying married or getting a divorce. Garfield chose to say married. 37 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Warren Harding was more than the Republican president who presided over the scandalous, bribe-taking Teapot Dome administration in the early 1920s that ranked with the Bush Jr. one for the most corrupt in American history. Harding had numerous extramarital affairs, including with Nan Britton, who was 31 years younger than him. In fact, Britton bore Harding a child one year before he won the presidency. 38 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Harding and Britton had sex in White House closets, bathrooms, and offices, even as Harding’s wife, Florence, remained in other parts of the White House. 39 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Britton was not the only extramarital relationship that Harding, who died in office of a heart attack, had in the White House. In fact, Carrie Phillips, who had been a German sympathizer during World War I, attempted to blackmail Harding and was paid hush money by the Republican Party. 40 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> During World War II, Dwight Eisenhower allegedly began an affair with Kay Summersby, a young British woman who became Eisenhower’s personal secretary. Summersby confirmed the affair in her 1975 book, <em>Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower.</em> 41 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> No less than Christian evangelist Billy Graham, a close ally of Republicans like Nixon and Bush, allegedly took home a prostitute while married, according to Marshall Frady’s book, <em>Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness.</em> In 1952, Graham and another evangelist had dinner with two prostitutes in Paris, and each one took one home, Frady wrote. Graham told a friend that nothing happened - he got cold feet and fled after the prostitute took off her clothes. 42 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Other conservative evangelists, such as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, followed through with affairs. 43 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Nelson Rockefeller, vice president to Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, died in 1979 at the age of 70 while allegedly having sex with Megan Marshak, his 27-year-old secretary. In his will, Rockefeller reportedly left Marshak the deed to a New York townhouse and $50,000 in cash. 44 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> The affair of another Republican mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, was covered more by the media. Giuliani started seeing Judith Nathan while still married to his second wife, Donna. After another divorce in 2002, Guiliani married Nathan in 2003. 45 </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Millionaire druggie and liar Rush Limbaugh allegedly cheated on two of his three wives. Another rabid-right talk show host, Laura Schlessinger, reportedly has also engaged in extramarital affairs. For more on these affairs and other sex scandals involving Republicans, including Tom DeLay, George Will, and Dick Armey, see the sites mentioned in the footnote at the bottom of this chapter. 46 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong>Some Republicans actually do time for sex crimes </strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Occasionally, some Republicans actually get caught in a serious sex crime. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Quick now, has anyone heard of Randy Ankeney? He was a rising star in Colorado Republican circles who held a $63,000 position in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development until he was arrested in 2001 and accused of trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through the Internet. 47 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Police said Ankeney even warned the girl he’d ruin her life if she told anyone. Does that sound familiar? That’s how many of these Republicans keep their affairs quiet - they threaten a bunch of people. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Another 17-year-old girl said Ankeney sexually assaulted her while working on a political campaign. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2003. 48 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> How about Parker J. Bena, a Virginia Republican activist who proudly cast one of his state’s electoral vote for Bush in 2000, being indicted for possessing child pornography in 2001? Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. 49 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Long-time Virginia Republican fund-raiser Richard Delgaudio, 50, was more fortunate. He only received two years probation in 2003 after pleading guilty to taking sexually-related photos of a 16-year-old girl in a motel room. In 2001, Delgaudio was picked up by police in Baltimore’s Patterson Park, an area police said was known for prostitution. 50 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Does Republican Marty Glickman, one of those rabid dog conservative talk radio commentators in Florida who was arrested in 2001 and charged with giving drugs like LSD and money to underaged girls in exchange for sex, ring a bell? 51 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Anyone hear of Kevin T. Coan, a Republican who formerly directed the St. Louis Election Board? He was charged in 2001 with trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl in cyberspace. As of 2003, his case hadn’t been resolved. 52 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Then there was Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who was sentenced in 2003 to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged girls and violating their civil rights. It’s more likely you’ve heard of him since this case received ample media coverage. 53 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Another case that got some attention involved Beverly Russell, a leader in the South Carolina Republican Party and the local Christian Coalition who campaigned for presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who allegedly molested his step-daughter, children-drowner Susan Smith. 54 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> I’ve been told that numerous Religious Right nuts read sexual material under the guise of knowing what’s in it so they can keep it from their children. Many Religious Rightists also believe a man can have sex with his wife anytime he pleases, whether she wants to or not. Some would call that rape, but I’m sure these nuts have another word for it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong>Did Bennett pay for a dominatrix’s services? </strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Finally, there was Bill Bennett, the hypocritical, self-proclaimed morality czar who was one of Clinton’s harshest critics for having an affair. According to Jack Hughes, webmaster of <em><a href="http://www.evilGOPbastards.com" target="_blank">www.evilGOPbastards.com</a>, </em>and another source, Bennett hired a Las Vegas dominatrix, essentially paying money for sexual services. Reporters from nationally-known newspapers and magazines have interviewed Leola McConnell, or “Mistress Lee,” but have not been able to obtain written proof like receipts or emails to verify the story. One source said there supposedly was a video tape of them floating around, but they hadn’t seen it. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> In an email, McConnell didn’t deny that Bennett was a client or talking to reporters about it. “Contact [the reporters], why are you asking me? That’s the best way to find out if it’s true or not,” she wrote. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> I contacted some reporters who allegedly spoke with McConnell. One said the allegation could be true, but McConnell did not produce any evidence to help substantiate the tie, such as receipts and correspondence. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> As Joshua Green, who broke the story about Bennett’s gambling habit, wrote in <em>The Washington Monthly</em> in 2003, “no person can be more rightly credited with making morality and personal responsibility an integral part of the political debate” than Bennett. As drug czar under Bush Sr. and education secretary under Reagan, Bennett continually shoved his high-handed view of morality into our faces. He wrote books on morals and virtues and made millions speaking about the subject across the country, usually pointing the finger at Democratic excesses and ignoring sins committed by Republicans. 55 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> Then came Green’s 2003 story that Bennett had spent millions gambling in Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos since at least the early 1990s. Suddenly, Bennett and his poker buddies who defended his excesses - Robert Bork, Antonin Scalia, and William Rehnquist - didn’t look so moral or credible to many people. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"> The point of this essay is not to say Republicans are more likely to commit an extramarital affair than Democrats; I believe the truth is closer to being that they are equally likely. The media is full of examples of Democrats embroiled in sexual scandals; I’m just trying to balance the scales a little. I find Republican sexual scandals more appalling than Democratic transgressions after all the Republicans did to expose Clinton’s private life - even spending $100 million of tax money - in the 1990s. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 598543, member: 17969"] Well Tieguy, I for one, will never accuse you of being "informed" on political issues. But, just for kicks, how about a little reading for your political education? [B][SIZE=4]Republican cheaters go way back in history [/SIZE][/B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] The list of prominent Republicans who cheated on their spouses went way back in American history. James Garfield, who was president from 1880 to 1884, reportedly had an extramarital affair with Lucia Calhoun in the 1860s. His wife, Lucretia, discovered the liaison and made him choose between staying married or getting a divorce. Garfield chose to say married. 37 Warren Harding was more than the Republican president who presided over the scandalous, bribe-taking Teapot Dome administration in the early 1920s that ranked with the Bush Jr. one for the most corrupt in American history. Harding had numerous extramarital affairs, including with Nan Britton, who was 31 years younger than him. In fact, Britton bore Harding a child one year before he won the presidency. 38 Harding and Britton had sex in White House closets, bathrooms, and offices, even as Harding’s wife, Florence, remained in other parts of the White House. 39 Britton was not the only extramarital relationship that Harding, who died in office of a heart attack, had in the White House. In fact, Carrie Phillips, who had been a German sympathizer during World War I, attempted to blackmail Harding and was paid hush money by the Republican Party. 40 During World War II, Dwight Eisenhower allegedly began an affair with Kay Summersby, a young British woman who became Eisenhower’s personal secretary. Summersby confirmed the affair in her 1975 book, [I]Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower.[/I] 41 No less than Christian evangelist Billy Graham, a close ally of Republicans like Nixon and Bush, allegedly took home a prostitute while married, according to Marshall Frady’s book, [I]Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness.[/I] In 1952, Graham and another evangelist had dinner with two prostitutes in Paris, and each one took one home, Frady wrote. Graham told a friend that nothing happened - he got cold feet and fled after the prostitute took off her clothes. 42 Other conservative evangelists, such as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, followed through with affairs. 43 Nelson Rockefeller, vice president to Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, died in 1979 at the age of 70 while allegedly having sex with Megan Marshak, his 27-year-old secretary. In his will, Rockefeller reportedly left Marshak the deed to a New York townhouse and $50,000 in cash. 44 The affair of another Republican mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, was covered more by the media. Giuliani started seeing Judith Nathan while still married to his second wife, Donna. After another divorce in 2002, Guiliani married Nathan in 2003. 45 Millionaire druggie and liar Rush Limbaugh allegedly cheated on two of his three wives. Another rabid-right talk show host, Laura Schlessinger, reportedly has also engaged in extramarital affairs. For more on these affairs and other sex scandals involving Republicans, including Tom DeLay, George Will, and Dick Armey, see the sites mentioned in the footnote at the bottom of this chapter. 46 [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][B] Some Republicans actually do time for sex crimes [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] Occasionally, some Republicans actually get caught in a serious sex crime. Quick now, has anyone heard of Randy Ankeney? He was a rising star in Colorado Republican circles who held a $63,000 position in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development until he was arrested in 2001 and accused of trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through the Internet. 47 Police said Ankeney even warned the girl he’d ruin her life if she told anyone. Does that sound familiar? That’s how many of these Republicans keep their affairs quiet - they threaten a bunch of people. Another 17-year-old girl said Ankeney sexually assaulted her while working on a political campaign. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2003. 48 How about Parker J. Bena, a Virginia Republican activist who proudly cast one of his state’s electoral vote for Bush in 2000, being indicted for possessing child pornography in 2001? Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. 49 Long-time Virginia Republican fund-raiser Richard Delgaudio, 50, was more fortunate. He only received two years probation in 2003 after pleading guilty to taking sexually-related photos of a 16-year-old girl in a motel room. In 2001, Delgaudio was picked up by police in Baltimore’s Patterson Park, an area police said was known for prostitution. 50 Does Republican Marty Glickman, one of those rabid dog conservative talk radio commentators in Florida who was arrested in 2001 and charged with giving drugs like LSD and money to underaged girls in exchange for sex, ring a bell? 51 Anyone hear of Kevin T. Coan, a Republican who formerly directed the St. Louis Election Board? He was charged in 2001 with trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl in cyberspace. As of 2003, his case hadn’t been resolved. 52 Then there was Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who was sentenced in 2003 to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged girls and violating their civil rights. It’s more likely you’ve heard of him since this case received ample media coverage. 53 Another case that got some attention involved Beverly Russell, a leader in the South Carolina Republican Party and the local Christian Coalition who campaigned for presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who allegedly molested his step-daughter, children-drowner Susan Smith. 54 I’ve been told that numerous Religious Right nuts read sexual material under the guise of knowing what’s in it so they can keep it from their children. Many Religious Rightists also believe a man can have sex with his wife anytime he pleases, whether she wants to or not. Some would call that rape, but I’m sure these nuts have another word for it. [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][B]Did Bennett pay for a dominatrix’s services? [/B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] Finally, there was Bill Bennett, the hypocritical, self-proclaimed morality czar who was one of Clinton’s harshest critics for having an affair. According to Jack Hughes, webmaster of [I][url]www.evilGOPbastards.com[/url], [/I]and another source, Bennett hired a Las Vegas dominatrix, essentially paying money for sexual services. Reporters from nationally-known newspapers and magazines have interviewed Leola McConnell, or “Mistress Lee,” but have not been able to obtain written proof like receipts or emails to verify the story. One source said there supposedly was a video tape of them floating around, but they hadn’t seen it. In an email, McConnell didn’t deny that Bennett was a client or talking to reporters about it. “Contact [the reporters], why are you asking me? That’s the best way to find out if it’s true or not,” she wrote. I contacted some reporters who allegedly spoke with McConnell. One said the allegation could be true, but McConnell did not produce any evidence to help substantiate the tie, such as receipts and correspondence. As Joshua Green, who broke the story about Bennett’s gambling habit, wrote in [I]The Washington Monthly[/I] in 2003, “no person can be more rightly credited with making morality and personal responsibility an integral part of the political debate” than Bennett. As drug czar under Bush Sr. and education secretary under Reagan, Bennett continually shoved his high-handed view of morality into our faces. He wrote books on morals and virtues and made millions speaking about the subject across the country, usually pointing the finger at Democratic excesses and ignoring sins committed by Republicans. 55 Then came Green’s 2003 story that Bennett had spent millions gambling in Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos since at least the early 1990s. Suddenly, Bennett and his poker buddies who defended his excesses - Robert Bork, Antonin Scalia, and William Rehnquist - didn’t look so moral or credible to many people. The point of this essay is not to say Republicans are more likely to commit an extramarital affair than Democrats; I believe the truth is closer to being that they are equally likely. The media is full of examples of Democrats embroiled in sexual scandals; I’m just trying to balance the scales a little. I find Republican sexual scandals more appalling than Democratic transgressions after all the Republicans did to expose Clinton’s private life - even spending $100 million of tax money - in the 1990s. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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