Bad taste award
I don’t find anything funny about the Sanford affair. It’s the mom in me thinking about four handsome boys on Father’s Day weekend abandoned by their stupid, selfish father, who was busy tanning with his mistress in Argentina. Heart-breaking. Yes. Nauseating. Yes. Maddening. Yes. Funny? No.
Cruel derision crude humor are to be expected of the Left.
But can Beltway conservatives Republicans keep their cracks to themselves? Today’s bad taste award goes to Grover Norquist:
“It’s not helpful,” said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. “This is a guy who clearly could have been in the running as a serious presidential candidate with a serious record of cutting taxes and cutting spending.” But Norquist tempered his gloom with a joke. “It does indicate that men who oppose federal spending at the local level are irresistible to women.”
Just what we need: Beltway conservatives Republicans showing how tone-deaf and insensitive they are for the sake of a self-aggrandizing soundbite.
Gag.
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d’oh, ok ok, before mea culpa, Jefferson was already a widower (presumably) when he was supposed to have taken his house slave Sally Hemmings to his bed and had children out of wedlock with her…
I have not seen anyone here equate divorce as being on par with marital infidelity.
Reagan is a poor example for this due to the fact that his first marriage ended in part because of his political ambitions, not because he was unfaithful.
Reagan is a poor example for this due to the fact that his first marriage ended in part because of his political ambitions, not because he was unfaithful.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but I believe it’s been pretty well established he dallied while still married to J. Wyman….
Pay attention, ILMC. His name is Sanford.
– lgm
Of course, it couldn’t have been because he believed it the right thing to do, could it? You’re really incapable of seeing a positive act by a conservative as, well, positive, aren’t you?
– lgm
Then they are in good company with many of their Democratic congressional counterparts. The only difference is, we call for the resignation of those who do wrong in our party, and they actually admit their wrongdoing.
How’s Jefferson been doing lately? Oh that’s right, defeated by a Republican after having never owned up to his acceptance of bribes, and now awaiting trial in Virginia.
I have not read that. In fact, the speculation was quite the opposite in that some thought that Wyman cheated with her co-star, Lew Ayres.
The other theory I’ve read was his obsession with politics.
yeah, unlike Bawnie Fwank…
I have not read that. In fact, the speculation was quite the opposite in that some thought that Wyman cheated with her co-star, Lew Ayres.
The other theory I’ve read was his obsession with politics.
I’ll happily defer to that…i had read it somewhere and shouldn’t oughta have gone repeatin’ it…
Valid references, please? How ’bout if we play this the other way around?
No evidence that RR cheated on Wyman. Now, he may have been a ladies’ man after his divorce, and I would argue that that is very different.
On June 25th, 2009 at 3:01 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
I can’t believe you – unemployment figures rose to 627,000 this week and all you can find to talk about is South Carolina’s governor?!
How about maybe suggesting some ways we can get of this economic mess, or are you hindered by the fact our president is now a Democrat?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anCtVrRFvn1U
Ilovemycountry are you trying to say its a negative thing to be gay? How bigoted of you. Off to the PC re-education camp for you!!!
dbninky; this unemployment news is irrelevant because it’s only those rich wall street jerks being laid off don’t you know. the gm ceo got canned, and so did 626,999 other greedy rich ceo’s. the workers paradise is definitely on the rise, as the poor are getting all the good jobs now. even the oracle of omaha who backed obama to the hilt is saying the obama plans aren’t working. but we all know that prosperity under barry carter is “just a day away, tomorrow, tomorrow.”
Red State Skeptic needed company.
Hypocrisy, thy name is ILMC!
Holy-Teabagging-Hillbillies!
You guys figured me out!
Who knew: home schooling, squirrel eating and inbreeding could make people so smart?
Ilovemycountry, WOW, way to confirm your racist, bigoted nature. I was joking before, but now I am simply in awe of your blind hatred. A KKK grand dragon could not have produced a better statement filled with generalizations and racist hatred. You truely have earned the title of the most hated filled, bigoted, irrational post of the day.
Congratulations!!! Your mother would spit on you in disgust.
Like what I wrote yesterday:
Its a gig aimed at libs, so vehement in their hypocrisy.
More fed up with the piling on than a joke.
I do feel empathy for Sanfords family, him..none, it seems though that no matter how punishing the consequences, it keeps happening and left right north south, moral set, doesn’t seem to make much difference.
Doesn’t mean we can’t expect better though and the anger is sure understandable.
I’ve had, like lots of folks, plenty of it.
Maybe its my fault.
Name calling..sigh
Beltway Republicans = Democrap Lite.
I have no interest in what those milquetoast republicans have to say, jokes or otherwise.
These bad apples make it harder for republicans to talk about values. In fact that’s precisely why democrats make such a big deal about it when a republican’s involved — well that and their perverse enjoyment of kicking people when they’re down. But the democrats have an even bigger problem to overcome than republicans do in the next election: the “tax and spend” label their party can’t shake.
In the past they have sometimes admitted to the tax and spend label, like when Mondale campaigned on a promise to raise taxes. At other times they have promised to raise taxes only on the rich and give everyone else a tax break. Clinton and Obama both made that pledge while campaigning. But we found out very quickly that their fingers were crossed behind their backs when they made that promise.
It is easier to keep a pig out of the mud than it is to keep a democrat from raising taxes and increasing spending. They just can’t help themselves. I’m curious to see how democrats defend their behavior when the next election comes up. I’m absolutely sure what one of their excuses will be: “We had to do it to save the planet from all the problems we inherited from Bush…”. But that still won’t explain why things got worse.
While you make the point that politicians aren’t “perfect” I find your trotting out conservatives expecting “perfection” a little disingenuous. We all live in the real world. However, aren’t you just a bit tired of all the liars, schemers, cheaters, fraudsters, exploiters of both political parties? The problem with both parties these days is TRUST. I want politicians to do their jobs but when they’re entangled in all matter of affairs such as recent governers, the mayor of LA, and Clinton, it erodes constituents’ trust and sense that these politicians don’t really give a damn for anybody else but themselves.
While I like Giuliani, and value the hard work he put in cleaning up NYC, he’s done some not quite honest, above-board things that would engender trust in a potential constituent. He’s not the most “faithful” type- just ask his first wife. As a NY voter, the state is in turmoil and has been for years because a lot of these politicians are not living in the real world. They only pretend they do.
There are all types of conservatives and the conservative movement is a lot more complex and diverse than the right-wing bigotry you often portray. How often do Dems apply orthodoxy to get people to faithfully trot along? How many Dems posed as moderates or even conservatives but cave and never stand up for things they alleged in their campaign such as Sen. Casey’s pro-life position, or those blue-dog Dem fiscal warriors?
You see, all politicians say one thing and yet never follow through on their campaign “pledges.” Is that what we seek in public servants now? How good you can run a campaign and make a slick speech only to dissolve into a puddle of mush when you’re too weak to stand up and give a damn?
The true “conservative” test is the following:
SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY.
That’s it. There’s no a), b), or c) answers. I can’t believe that so many people like you are so willing to lower the bar in politicians that even marriage vows have no meaning. Even campaign “promises” ring hollow now. When politicians can’t even lead by example such as the President who can’t seem to kick his nicotine habit but demands that all Americans must make sacrifices in their healthcare, it just rings a bit hollow to me.
You don’t have to be a “boy scout” to be a politician but you can’t be a dirtbag either. The military needs strong leaders and if those leaders don’t lead by example, morale breaks down. That’s why when bad apples get found they’re usually drummed out or carted off to Fort Levenworth. Better yet, if military members cheat on their spouses they can be drummed out of the military. It still applies.
And it should apply to politicians of ALL POLITICAL PERSUASIONS. That is why there is an HONOR CODE in the military academies and the different branches of the military. If you steal, lie, cheat, or commit a crime you can’t remain in the military.
Nor should you remain in political office doing the very same things.