You're just in denial or can't really limn what's going on here.

Dems are just as hypocritical, only they're disingenuous about it. Edwards ran (or rather limped, that third leg's a bitch) on a platform of smart, honest, helpful government. He preached responsibility. He isn't any of those things.

Lying about fathering a child, requesting your subordinate take the fall for your actions and VIDEOTAPING the liason, points to extremely warped sense of honest and helpful. Taping his exploits says he's pretty dimwitted, or at least thinks with organs other than his brain.

I totally agree with your opinion, but you failed to mention another difference between Democrats & Republicans that are involed in sex scandals - the pubs hardly ever resign where the dems generally resign & go away, with one notable exception, Bill "Bubbah" Clinton (and I liked him). I've heard a couple pub pundits try to claim the mistress factor is irrelavant as long as one can perform their job. Can you agree that no one, absolutely no one, would be able to retain their job if they were an unknown no-show at the job for 5 consective days !!!

What about Corrupt Democrats…After so many years out of power?

We Democrats need to keep our own ranks in line.

Very discouraging after we worked so hard to give them Total Power!

Some recent headlines:

After call from Senator Inouye’s office, small Hawaii bank got U.S. aid http://tr.im/qv5N

Now we hear that Rep. John Conyers

may have trouble from his wife’s

Federal Bribery Conviction.

The articles in the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press explain

Conyers wife Monica took cash and jewelry, ex-aide says-Riddle details questionable transactions she brokered; John Conyers’ name used but role unclear http://tinyurl.com/njehy4

Riddle implicates Rep. John Conyers in wife’s corruption troubles http://tinyurl.com/mkxftx

What did John Conyers know? http://tinyurl.com/mp9t4l

John Conyers not talking about waste-well letter

Explanation asked for shift http://tinyurl.com/lczr6q

Rep. Conyers responds to questions about involvement with Romulus injection well http://tinyurl.com/ntz8q6

John Conyers defends waste-well letter http://tinyurl.com/knq2pe

John Conyers defends switching position on toxic wells http://tinyurl.com/nhqnnu

Rep. Conyers’ office defends flip-flop http://tinyurl.com/mdd3sv

District Democrats back John Conyers following wife’s conviction http://tinyurl.com/ng2gj2

Not sure which way this will go. The 80 year old congressman who has been in office for 40+ years used to have a great liberal reputation BUT one wonders what effect this will have on Conyers, Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee.

His Committee is where Impeachment would have started.

Conyers has been a big disappointment to Impeachment and Torture Accountability Advocates. he House, but blocked it for 7 years & kept Kucinich’s Bush-Cheney Impeachment Bills from ever being debated in his committee or voted on.

Conyers accepted an IMPEACHMENT PETITION SIGNED BY 1.1 MILLION VOTERS but IGNORED IT AND HAD THOSE DELIVERING IT ARRESTED.

Strange behaviour from the “Champion of Impeachment”.

It would be good to know the truth.

SIGN THE PETITION at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

Since Conyers is also leading the fight for Single Payer

we wonder what chance it has?

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I agree. Public lying, unexplained absences, clandestine flights, and an apparent misuse of public funds trump Sanford's personal peccadillos. His public confessions of infidelity with his Argentine "soul mate" are a smokescreen that is intended to shrouded much deeper problems. The governor's private "indiscretions" are easy to parse and eventually forgive, his violations of state law and the public trust not so much. As long as he can hog the camera, he can steer the debate over his future.

Get the Christian Fundamentatist movement out of my governement. It's not supposed to be there in the first place.

It's dangerous, it's wrong, and it needs to go.

Wishful thinking, I know....but I girl can dream, right?

I thought it was fairly clear that I regard adultery as a sin.

I simply wanted to point out that very few persons are as wholly free of sin as their enthusiastic stone-throwing implies. This is particularly true of the news media, who expose the intimate lives of others for fun and profit, while keeping their own private acts private.

As they should. It seems inevitable, however, that news media celebrities are going to get caught in the spotlight too. Weeping and lamentations are sure to follow.

No, this genie's not going back into the bottle. In many ways, that's a shame. GL

Thanks Gene. Oh so true.

Thanks also to your vet.

"Enhanced breeding opportunities are the whole point of becoming an Alpha male among the primates."

That's hilarious "A nation of peeping toms" as it applies to Mark "The Mouth" Sanford No peeping was required in fact we all know way more about this than we want to know

My problem really isn't with Christians unable to follow Paul, but with the hypocrisy of saying "I believe," and then ignoring the rest of what their religion dictates when it suits them. Why not just be secular, like everyone else?

It's my contention all of us (Christians included!) really live in a secular society; Americans merely pay lip service to religious ideals.

Christ recognized that men aren't perfect. Even the just man sins seven times daily, he said. Yes, we often fail to live up to our standards. But abandoning the standards because we have failed lowers who we are. Democrats are basically arguing, "Can't reach the bar? Get rid of the bar!" Lower standards encourages lower behavior.

you are still missing the entire point.

sounds like you don't like Edwards very much. I don't either. But Edwards never said these things:

(From a 2002 Campaign Ad) - SANFORD: Jenny and I try our best to teach our four little boys Christian values, character, and honesty. You‘d like to think that those values apply to the governor, too, and that starts with keeping your word. South Carolina needs a return to real, honest leadership in the governor‘s office.

or this

"In late 1998, then Congressman Mark Sanford was preparing to vote to impeach President Clinton. His analysis at the time, quote, “I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign. I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he‘d be gone.”

Republicans in 1998 had chosen as Speaker of the House Louisiana, Congressman Bob Livingston, who then admitted to an extra marital affair.

Congressman Sanford also gave Congressman Livingston a shove out the speaker‘s door when he told CNN at the time, quote, “The bottom line is, he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife.”

quotes taken from goupstate.com

THAT IS THE POINT - hypocricy.

John Edwards is a pig - but not a hypocrite.

John Edwards championed the poor. Sanford championed family values.

so again, STFU