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House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/2/2009 9:16:01 AM

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Ah yes, the party of morals and family values.

And honestly, I wouldn't care because I don't think anyone's private life is relevant to their professional life.

But that's been the GOP pledge, to lead the nation by example of their morality.

What's funniest is almost all the Republicans involved in sex scandals were up on the soapbox condemning Clinton in the harshest ways at the time.

What goes around....................

From Sanford to Ensign, GOP class of '94 plagued with problems

The sex scandals that have tarnished Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) don’t appear to have much in common. Yet there is one thread that binds them together: Both Ensign and Sanford were members of the famed Republican House class of 1994, as well as its latest casualties.

As it turns out, the pressures and demands of political life have inflicted devastating damage not only on the Ensign and Sanford families, but on the families of many of the 71 other freshmen who formed the vanguard of the Republican Revolution.

In the 14 years since that star-crossed class arrived in Washington espousing an agenda that placed family values at its core, no less than a dozen of its members have been caught up in affairs, sex scandals or in messy separations and divorces from their spouses that, in more than a few instances, led to their political downfalls.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/2/2009 10:00:50 AM

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As funny as the scandals have been, 12 out of 71, and with that having to count 'messy' seperations and divorces, is hardly anything significant. I'm willing to bet that if you were to monitor any 71 adults for 15 years you'd get 10 or 12 sex scandals and 'messy' divorces.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/2/2009 10:15:57 AM

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True.

The point being the blatant hypocrisy.

We've spent years listening about the morality of the "family values" party while liberal was made a dirty word for, apparently, the lack of ethics and morals.

The Moral Majority, by their very name, implied everyone else was part of an immoral minority.

So forgive me if I'm not in the mood to be gracious.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/2/2009 11:15:01 AM

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I agree that the prominent faces of that group were the worst sort of hypocrites and demogogues but that doesn't change the facts that 12 out of 71 isn't exactly an unusual rate.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/2/2009 11:17:02 AM

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No, again, I agree.

But you said the rest.

That whole thing about people who live in glass houses.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/4/2009 2:57:26 PM

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No, again, I agree.

But you said the rest.

That whole thing about people who live in glass houses.

You win this thread. The truth stings the hypocrites and they all ran away. Republicans are not good when the lights are on.

I do not remember which network put up about 12 pictures outlining the contenders for the republican nomination in 2012. Then, one by one they took off those republicans trashed by sex scandals. One commentator commented that if the first set of contenders looked lightweight, the remainder was a farce.

Maybe we should put Larry Craig's picture up there. Craig seems like the poster boy for the republicans at this point.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/4/2009 7:13:57 PM

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True.

The point being the blatant hypocrisy.

We've spent years listening about the morality of the "family values" party while liberal was made a dirty word for, apparently, the lack of ethics and morals.

The Moral Majority, by their very name, implied everyone else was part of an immoral minority.

So forgive me if I'm not in the mood to be gracious.

The equally disturbing aspect of modern republicanism is that they are hypocrites on many policy levels.

They profess small govt. fiscal conservatism and become big govt. big spending deficit spenders.

They profess conservatism with respect foreign involvements yet will use gun boat diplomacy or even go to war at the drop of a hat...and drop the hat themselves. Swear they are not liberal 'nation-builders' yet are now claiming success after years of death and destruction in rebuilding Iraq and Afghan.

They correctly recognize the venality in man yet allow wall street and other biggies remain way to big, leverage trillions and blow it all up...rescued by just enough socialism to actually allow them to continue to preach about something called a 'free' market. [sic]

On policy matters as well as their immorality, republicans have...no credibility anymore at all.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/4/2009 7:44:20 PM

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So almost all the breakups occurred during 1994-2000. Then a lull till Foley. Then nothing till Ensign and Sanford.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/5/2009 7:24:22 AM

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How could you forget Larry Craig playing footsie in an airport bathroom with who he didn't know was an undercover cop?

The same Larry Craig who voted to impeach Clinton.

The same Larry Craig who voted against laws ending job discrimination against gays, voted against same-sex marriage, and voted against extending hate crime laws to gays.

And then we had John Ensign demanding Craig's resignation at the same time he was having the affair that recently became public.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/5/2009 7:43:46 AM

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There have also been affairs and sex scandals on the Dem side as well... but the difference is, the Dems aren't the ones preaching how superior they are to everyone else on "family values" and how they are the only ones with unassilable morals.

But I guess that hypocracy goes hand in hand with being the party of fucking liars.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/5/2009 12:46:44 PM

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How could you forget Larry Craig playing footsie in an airport bathroom with who he didn't know was an undercover cop?

I was referring to the GOP class of '94 only.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/5/2009 8:29:50 PM

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There have also been affairs and sex scandals on the Dem side as well... but the difference is, the Dems aren't the ones preaching how superior they are to everyone else on "family values" and how they are the only ones with unassilable morals.

But I guess that hypocracy goes hand in hand with being the party of fucking liars.

Mars, what party do both of our Senators hail from? Care to take a guess what their position on gay marriage is? Take a gander on our Governor's position as well. Do you know what party he's a member of? By the way, do you know the position of your local rep? I bet it's a conservative position. Mike Ross is my Rep; I know what he thinks about the subject. You like to damn the Republicans, but you live in the same state I do. Guess who reformed the prisons in this state when they dug up all the bodies of murdered inmates? It was Rockefeller, and he was a Republican. He was the first Republican Governor elected in this state since Reconstruction. I've talked to the old timers around here; they'll tell you all about Democratic machine politics in the South. It was run like the Mafia. Arkansas Democrats are not that different from the national Republican platform. We don't have a party representing social liberals in this part of the country.

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RE: House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 - 7/6/2009 1:37:57 PM

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The Moral Majority, by their very name, implied everyone else was part of an immoral minority.

So forgive me if I'm not in the mood to be gracious.

Dont worry, Falwell is dead and God has a sense of humor.

Pat Robertson's law school will have to graduate an entire class just to get its previous class out of jail.

The Crystal Cathedral is in near ruins, and is selling its famous Orange Co. property fast to pay bills. Yes, God forecloses too.

Its only a matter of time.

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