All Posts Tagged With: "Family Values"
Better Make Sure There’s a Lock on that Closet
It’s happened again to another RWNJ rethuglican politician.
Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, Mississippi, “who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 on a conservative, family-values platform” according to the Commercial Appeal, has been forced out of the closet over receipts uncovered in a criminal investigation over misused expenses. The receipts included “thousands of dollars worth [...]
World’s Shortest Sex Scandal
GOP Representative Christopher Lee resigned 3 hours after Gawker revealed flirtatious emails he sent to a woman he found on Craigslist.
9Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
Reality TV Freak Show
Forget Kate Plus Eight Minus One. There’s a new game in town and it’s called If We Keep Having Babies Maybe We Won’t Get Canceled.
But now the couple – who only recently brought baby Josie home after being hospitalized for six months as she recovered from a perforated bowel and rare digestive problems – say [...]
California Rejects Religious Conservative Judges
Judges from a slate of candidates of the “Better Courts Now” organization lost in the California elections yesterday. The group was formed to bring a more religious conservative viewpoint to the courts.
9Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Things Aren’t Always ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Concerning Family Values
The problem with social conservatism is that it backs good people into a corner, whether it’s Utah leading the nation in pornography consumption or the litany of Republican politicians who dip their wick outside their marriage bed. As much as we might enjoy the downfall of hypocrites like Sanford and other self-righteous politicians from the [...]
12Mar2010 | nemski | 6 comments | Continued
More Family Values
How many prominent California Prop 8 supporters have been shown to be huge hypocrites? I’m losing count. There’s the state legislator who bragged about his lobbyist mistress, and Miss California’s sex tapes and now there’s this:
It’s no good for a family values Republican to get picked up on a DUI. But substantially worse [...]
Check Out My Family Values
A PPP poll released last night showed family values teabagger candidate Scott Brown ahead in the MA-Sen special election. While Democrats wring their hands and try to work up some enthusiasm in their electorate, this picture that Scott Brown did for Cosmopolitan resurfaced:
Brown was just 22 when he won Cosmo’s “America’s Sexiest Man” competition. [...]
10Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
Another Cheatin’ Politician
It’s a Democrat this time – Max Baucus. Baucus was in the news quite a bit this summer and fall because he heads the Senate Finance Committee. He also indulged in an affair. The details of the affair actually aren’t that scandalous, Baucus was separated when the relationship started and he and [...]
5Dec2009 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
Sanford Faces Ethics Violations
Everyone’s favorite Appalachian Trail hiker is not out of hot water yet. South Carolina’s State Ethics Board has released a report, charging Sanford with 37 separate violations:
The civil charges, which carry a maximum $74,000 in fines, stem from a three-month investigation by the state ethics commission and could be pivotal in a [...]
God Invented Saline
You have to say one thing for the world’s most persecuted Christian hypocrite (in her own mind) – she just keeps on going, seemingly undaunted by the scandals that dog her. Miss Opposite Marriage gave an interview for Christianity Today to explain herself (from Huffington Post):
She also answers a question about her topless [...]
Republicans Want To Get Government Out Of Our Lives*
*exceptions may apply
Oklahoma is perhaps the wingnuttiest state in the union. This is the state that has elected geniuses like James Inhofe and Tom Coburn to the U.S. Senate. So, it’s probably no surprise that Oklahoma is leading the way in finding new ways to shame and punish women who have unapproved sex.
On [...]
Big Trouble For John Ensign
This summer John Ensign held a press conference and admitted to engaging in an affair with one of his campaign aides, Cynthia Hampton. Both Ensign and Hampton were married and Hampton and her husband both worked for Senator Ensign. At first it just looked your average hypocritical family values Republican and I stated [...]
3Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
Whose Values?
Talking Points Memo looks at the schedule for the Value Voters Summit and finds these breakout sessions:
“Speechless – Silencing The Christians”
“Thugocracy – Fighting the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy”
“Defunding Planned Parenthood”
“Activism and Conservatism: Fit to a Tea (Party)”
“The Threat of Illegal Immigration”
“Obamacare: Rationing Your Life Away”
“Marriage: Why It’s Worth Defending and How Redefining it Threatens Religious [...]
Oopsie!
Family values California Assemblyman Michael Duvall forgot didn’t know that his mic was on when discussed having sex and spanking one of his two girlfriends. BTW, both of his girlfriends are lobbyists.
Here’s where I give some really good advice: when you discuss your extramarital affairs make sure your mic is off.
Update: More info [...]
Ho Hum, Another Christian Republican Adulterer
Former Representative Chip Pickering’s estranged wife is suing his mistress for alienation of affection. Chip Pickering lived in the C Street Complex Christian fellowship home with both Senator John Ensign and Governor Mark Sanford.
17Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
Ensign Affair Still Raising Eyebrows…And Questions
When I first read about the Ensign affair I thought it was just your standard, run-of-the-mill scandal, but it’s scandal that won’t end.
First, Doug Hampton gave an interview to the Las Vegas Sun. TPM Muckraker gives us the summary of the revelations:
Hampton said that Ensign paid Cindy more than $25,000 in severance when she [...]
Why Don’t We Talk About The Real Victims – Fallen Politicians?
Last week’s News Journal brings us this wacky letter to the editor:
I enjoyed your June 26 editorial pointing out politically prominent men involved in adulterous relationships. There are many more, each representing hundreds of column inches of newsprint taking the same approach: “ain’t it awful” – “poor wronged wife” – “ruined career.” Other aspects might [...]
Isn’t It Romantic?
Lost in all the hubbub yesterday was the newest Mark Sanford revelations:
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he “crossed lines” with a handful of women other than his mistress – but never had sex with them.
The governor says he “never crossed the ultimate line” with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center [...]
Delusions of Grandeur
Mark Sanford explains his refusal to resign as governor of South Carolina in Biblical terms. King David didn’t resign after the Bathsheba affair did he?
In case you thought it was some kind of accident, Sanford restated his analogy in a press release.
Late Update: In a statement issued after the meeting, Sanford doubled down on [...]
Should Sanford Resign?
Soon we’re going to start hearing calls for Sanford to resign, if they haven’t started already. I just want to give one liberal’s perspective on public/private behavior of elected officials.
Sanford: I think he should resign.
Lest I be accused of being a hypocrite about the Clinton impeachment (I thought it was bogus), let me give [...]
Sanford Makes Ensign Look Smart In Comparison
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s disappearing act just keeps getting stranger and stranger. Let’s count the evolving stories:
1) Sanford is missing and not even his wife knows where he is, but she’s not worried because he’s writing
2) Sanford’s cell phone is last located in Atlanta
3) Sanford’s aides say they talked to him, but then [...]
The Ensign Plot Thickens
I figured the John Ensign affair scandal was just your regular, run-of-the-mill adultery scandal. Apparently it’s a lot more complicated than that. At one time, Ensign employed the woman, her husband and her son at the same time. Ensign also got a job for the woman’s husband with a campaign contributor.
Now there [...]
Oh, The Hypocrisy
Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevadahas acknowledged having an extra-marital affair.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) has acknowledged an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer in a statement released by his office. “I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions,” said Ensign. He is expected to announce the affair at a press conference at 6:30 [...]
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