Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics
by Leigh ScottSo, Mark Sanford had an affair. Big deal. Who really cares? He screwed up his own life. He screwed over his wife and kids. It happens everyday. His family will deal with it. He will pay a personal price, either by losing his family, the mistress he claims to be in love with, or most likely both.
The media and the Muckadoos on the Internet think that this is once again an example of “conservative hypocrisy.” I’ve seen no less than ten news segments dedicated to discussing whether or not the GOP needs to shift focus away from family values, religion and morality because even the standard bearers of the ideology can’t stay the course.’
Two things. First off, if this is “conservative hypocrisy” isn’t every Democratic scandal involving money an example of “liberal hypocrisy?” The statist agenda is to take your money and have the government spend it because, supposedly, they can do it better and fairer than you can. So when we indict a Democrat over bribes, theft, or kickbacks why don’t we talk about how that effects their agenda? Shouldn’t the Rod Blagojevich scandal generate a full Anderson Cooper show about how the Democrats are going to proceed in telling us that they should take care of the cash when they are all a bunch of crooks?
Secondly, all these political scandals serve to hammer home a central point: politicians are a wacky bunch. They are an odd form of sociopath. Deluded, narcissistic, self-important wind bags who spend their lives seeking the ultimate freeloading government gig. They are not to be trusted. Government should be limited so we don’t allow these types of people: philanderers, tax cheats, alcoholics, drug addicts, con artists, pedophiles and thieves too much control over the people.
If your friend was under federal investigation for financial improprieties would you blindly lend him your ATM card and PIN number? Would you trust the judgment of a friend who spent most of their time drunk or hopped up on prescription drugs? Would you allow yourself to be lectured about your personal actions by someone who kept kiddie porn on their laptop?
There is an inherent fallacy to statist ideologies like communism and socialism. For them to work, the people in the government must be beyond reproach. They must be angels; wise sages who can put their own egos, wants and desires on the back burner to serve the common good. Where are these benevolent deities? Where are these Mother Theresa types to guide us and protect us? They ain’t in Washington.
At some point, probably in the near future, a group of selfless people will seek political office. They won’t be career politicians, but fed up citizens who take it upon themselves to seek public office to truly make a difference. You can bet the farm that these people won’t work to expand government control and taxation. They will do the exact opposite. They will dismantle the government, serve out their terms, then return to their real, honest jobs.
Let’s just hope the creeps don’t do too much damage until those people get there.
Email this to a friend | Print |
Share on Facebook
| Tweet this
| 
Follow Us on Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Tips & Feedback
121 Comments
Somebody's gotta say it. . . I like your hat!
P.S. Great point, Leigh. There seems to be a pathology in our political class that makes me wonder if we wouldn't be better off banning anyone who has ever run for office from holding office. Government by lottery couldn't be much worse than what we get now.
From your lips to God's ears.
the great thing about getting power is exercising it- the bad thing is exercising too much of it.
Therein lies the rub. As Lord Acton said: 'Power corrupts, and absolute power corrputs absolutely'
One of these days this lot will learn that they are answerable to the people. We're just not sure that it will be the
current occupants…
King George III asked the American painter Benjamin West what George Washington would do now that the war was over, and he had won. West speculated that he would just retire to his farm. George responded, "If he does that he will be the greatest man in the world."
The greatest man in the world is the man who holds power with an open hand. The Founding Fathers were cut from a very different cloth than what we have now in government.
The elites hate Sarah Palin because she is not like them, and Gov. Palin is not without her faults, but I cannot help but believe that she would be a breath of fresh air were she to ever reach the White House.
She is as close to the regular folks as I've seen in a politician in a long time. The ivy league, elite class has brought this country to it's knees, and milked it dry.
Let's see what "the people" can do now.
Liberal Hypocrisy? Not using those energy save light bubs to illuminate union busting activities.
I think there needs to be term limits for every elected office. Power corrupts and the politicians overwhelming premier job is to get re-elected not serve the people.
being human. I am sure we have all done things we regretted. At least he came clean and stopped his charade. True, he only screwed his family over; others are doing far worse. They call it right wing hypocrisy because they expect liberals to be low down, lying, cheating, slimey fiends.
So when we indict a Democrat over bribes, theft, or kickbacks why don’t we talk about how that effects their agenda?
Lets not forget about those who so generously pay all of their taxes. Like, oh, say Tim Geithner.
[...] more here: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics This entry is filed under America – Blogs, Big Hollywood. You can follow any responses to this [...]
Where are these benevolent deities? Where are these Mother Theresa types to guide us and protect us? They ain’t in Washington.
Obviously you are talking about Alec Baldwin running for Governor in Ohio.
I agree on the term limits at least on the state and federal levels. That's where the majority of the damage can be done. Local politicians can become a problem, but they don't wield the same amount of power.
Anyone who wants to be a career politician has nothing to contribute to society. They just are part of the power grab and finding ways to line their own pockets.
I just want those that are elected to play by the same rules as the rest of us.
biggest problem with term limits on the federal level is then the staff becomes the power, and the lobbyists
become even more influential. What needs to happen is more transparency on their spending, and pay and pension cuts-
Not to mention having the same health plan they're trying to shove down our throats…
Arec Barrwin is worthress!
(/kimJongIl)
I believe the problem, may be the Parties, as much or more than the Politicians. One can have high ideals and morals but, when they get to Washington, they find out if you don't play ball with the party, you don't play ball.
Yep!
As a Conservative, I have often been disapointed by politicians who I have supported eithor faling to do as they promissed, of having a serious moral failure such as Mark Sanford, or Rep. "Duke" Cunningham. I do not find it hypocritical to believe in a party or politicians who support moral values, even if being only human, they sometimes fail to live up to them. What is hypocritical is to deny that failure, or to continue to support that politician. Mark Sanford has my sympathy, and I wish him well, but he has betrayed his wife, and the trust of those who supported him. His carreer is over, I would never vote for him. What I find hypocritical is the Mainstream Media, and Democrats who defended Bill Clinton, but are now attacking Republicans. No prominent Republican has tried to say it is "no bid deal", or everybody does it, but we, who don't defend it are still being portrayed as hypocrits. It is a really 1984 type world we live in.
It seems like with most professions the longer you do the job the better you get at it. This doesn't seem to be the case with politicians though.
I agree with you, but would take it one step farther. Limit them to two terms (federal and local office combined) and then ban them from any office at all (including appointed) on a federal level. If they feel the need to stay in politics we will allow them go back home and run for Dog Catcher……..
Oh yea. Did someone say "Free Hat"?
There is also the ultimate conflict of interest; So many of the lawmakers are lawyers. They can shape the laws, to feed their careers and their patrons. It is the end product you always see in political bureaucracies, both public and private. Long term nepotism and influences lead those in the bureaucracy to abandon the principles of public service, in favor of the principle of power preservation for self and the bureaucracy.
How much MSM ink or airtime has been spent covering the conviction for bribery of Monica Conyers, the wife of Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers? Rep. Conyers switched to endorsing a waste sludge project which he had previously very publicly opposed, shortly after his wife accepted a bribe from the contractor.
Apparently, only Republicans can be guilty of hypocrisy. Unlike Democrats, they at least have some standards to fall from.
and I think she'd leave when she was finished.
He came clean and stopped his charade because he was caught.
I say we treat Mark Sanford the same way that we've been treating ALL cheating politicians so far..i.e. John Edwards, Kennedys etc..with Indifference. It's their cross to bear not ours. They eventually all get theirs in the end, no matter the party.
Hmmm, those two went through…Now I'm annoyed because my post pertaining to this article didn't go through yet but my rants are.
[...] scandal detracts from issues (& scandals) of greater relevance Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Hot Air: Poll: 50% of South Carolinians say Sanford should resign and Video: The freaky deaky Mark [...]
[...] bonuses for incompetent performance… and Barney Frank’s America Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Hot Air: It ain’t what you know in DC Suburban Guerrilla: Barney Frank Seeks TARP Funds for [...]
[...] – More unnamed McCain aides attack Palin and her “demons” Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics ‘The Other McCain: Questions that any sane person would ask’ The Daley Gator: How does [...]
[...] The BIGGEST LIBERAL TAX In US History …Updated With Newt Tweet Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Pronk Palisades: Time To Sound The Alarm: Call Your Representative and Senators–Cap and Trade [...]
[...] Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Obama WTF (What’s the Facts?): Documented Lies, 158 and Remarkably Still Growing Jeffrey [...]
[...] (and sputters and bullies) too much and Barney Frank’s America Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The American Pundit: The Hypocritical Incompetence of Congress GayPatriot: Why the Left Loves [...]
Bill Clinton was different. He never claimed to have family values so how can he by a hypocrite like Mark Sanford. No, Clinton and the Dems like him are not hypocrites, they are outright barbarians who have no moral compass except what will benefit them personally. They are practical atheists who live in a state of nature where survival is the ultimate goal – not living with honor and respect. At least hypocrisy tips its hat at morals.
And it's about time to ban anyone with an Ivy League education as well. Columbia?!? Harvard Law?!? As William F. Buckley said "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first four hundred names in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard." Of course, he graduated from Yale, so he may have had an axe to grind.
If I may make a plug for a good cause (one for which I receive NO remuneration), The Freshman 50 is just such a movement trying to get 50 fiscally conservative congresspeople elected. http://the-freshmen-50.com/.
This guy was on Dennis Miller making the case. It seems encouraging.
Hi everyone. The real job has kept me from trolling around here lately. Hope y'all are doing well, and you know who you are!
Clinton was still the only adulterous politician I've ever seen who had the unmitigated chutzpah to make sure the cameras caught him coming out of church with an oversized Bible in his hand right after Monicagate hit the news.
That money looks newly minted, fresh from the Treasury.
Right on – I'm so outraged by what's going on I just can't take it anymore.
The Obama-bots are totally hypnotized.
I was for Duncan Hunter who never had a chance.
This may be the best entry on this site to date. Kudos.
There is and always has been a double standard by the MSM vis a' vis personal conduct by conservative politicians. The GOP set themselves up by taking up the mantle of "family values" which is a valid issue. I'd bet more Republicans are honest, hard working, moral people. The Dems court the wacky, twisted, leftist. perverts more often than not. I agree with you, fools like Sanford obviously don't have the judgement to hold high office and should remanded to private life. Let's hope some Dem like former governor of New York Spitzer have their feet held to the fire more often.
In the sublime words of Milton Friedman, "Do you think American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?…Just tell me where in the world [we] find these angels who are going to organize society for us."
Sadly, the electorate seems to choose in a similar fashion, as evidenced by the results we are seeing from the Legislative and Executive branches.
Dang, Rep.Charles Rangel, DEMOCRAT New York is an out and out CRIMINAL and he's still polluting the House. He's above punishment in the "New Democrat World Order"….God Save the USA!
I guess there are risks with anything, but I would actually be willing to risk that. Can they (lobbyists) really become that much more influential than they already are? Politicians need money to get re-elected and they get it from special interests, so senators become beholden to those that contribute. Maintaining power becomes the goal rather than good governance.If you can only serve one four year term, you just might just be more willing to resist that temptation. Then there is the issue of senile guys like Strom Thumond, Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd who should have retired 20-25 years earlier
.
I would also love to see a constitutional amendment that prohibits Congress from EVER exempting themselves from the legislation they pass.
Nothing changes. Kings, Dukes. Lords, Presidents, Vp Senators.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Uh, but not all of us have the regret of cheating on our spouses, and wrecking the lives of our children by having diarrhea of the mouth. Soul mate my posterior! Can you imagine as a young teenage male hearing this insanity coming from your father!
At this rate the charade is going to show up on Broadway!
If he was my husband, he would be at the Pearly Gates where he could beg to be let in. Either that, or the testicle lock box everyone claims Hillary has, I would use one of my own!
And I for one could care less what the Russian styled mafia in the media, and Administration/DNC thinks about us. They call this hypocrisy because they know they do not even try to obey the laws, and as you said no one expects them to obey the laws. In this, Americans need some serious therapy.
I beg the citizens of South Carolina to please, please remove this man from being your governor!
Mr. Scott, thank you ever so much for this article! It clearly presents the case for Americans, hard working everyday Americans to take a stand, and kick out the nimrods in Washington. I like your conclusion that we are coming to take the country back. So often as of late, I have been rather down on my fellow citizens. It at times appears as if we are surrounded by zombies. Thanks for helping me have a little more faith in the American people.
As to shrinking the federal government, from your typed words to God's ears! We are going to need some type of divine aid to kill this behemoth.
It's getting to the point where I'd go do it for a couple years if I thought I could get elected. I know I can read 1000 pages in a short amount of time, and I know I'm smarter than half the people I see on CSPAN.
Alec Baldwin? A Governor? Fuck, Minnesota just elected that dirtbag from SNL whatshisname. I guess we are all truly screwed now. The "C" grade actors wre taking over DC! We are so screwed!
BINGO! I have said this for years to unwilling listeners. You are observant my friend. We don't need any frigging lawyers making laws. We need people with enough sense to know right from wrong, common sense from ignorance to make laws that serve all people who have the integrity to follow the laws. And then they'll need the balls to send the one's who don't to the gallows.
Another alarming observation is the ratio of lawyers versus engineers, graduated in our obsessively litigious society. I believe it is nearly ten to one. No society can survive such a ratio of people who build things to advance the country, versus people who build distrust amongst people to advance themselves at the expense of the country.
Spot on! Isn't there an old saying about that? "Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue." The only sure way to avoid any 'hypocritical' acts is to have no standards in the first place.
You mean he just needs to go on the View, shed a few fake tears, and then he can run for President.
He's a typical modern politician, in other words.
So many of the lawmakers are lawyers. They can shape the laws, to feed their careers and their patrons.
Which is why any attempt to improve, change, or simplify the system will always, always, ALWAYS be turned to the benefit of the system in the end. Lawyers are a cancer on society that will never go into remission.
Mankind was doomed from the first minute "scholar of the law" became a legitimate profession. Everything since has just been a matter of circling the drain.
If I could snap my fingers and kill every lawyer in the world, I would do it without hesitation.
They are the Jons to our Antonius.
Many hands have worn them, but the velvet glove and the mailed fist remain the same.
Those who hunger for power always get it, and the rest of us get f_cked.
There is no hope.
Divine aid? As far as I can tell, God expects us to solve these problems ourselves. When was the last time he struck down a corrupt politician?
God? Don't make me laugh. What do you think our current state of affairs is, if not a divine punishment for our sloth?
They do not believe that they are answerable to the people. So believing, they do not act as if they are answerable. Seeing them so act, no one holds them answerable.
They have already won, because we have been sleeping on the job.
The people? Last I checked, a very thin majority of them voted for Barack Obama.
I trust the people — my fellow human beings, that is — about as far as I can throw them.
"Let's see what "the people" can do now."
"The People" keep voting for the politicians you don't like, though
The romanticization of "the common man" or "the people" very seldom yields good results. Like it or not, education, experience and background MATTER here on Planet Earth.
It would be the simplest thing in the world for the GOP etc. to fix this problem by disassociating itself from the "values" crowd, but they just won't do it. What "social conservatives" call morality is slipping further and further into cultural irrelevance every day, and every day it takes more power into the abyss with it.
How many elections, honestly, do you think Democrats would win if the ONLY policy difference between the two parties was that the Republicans were going to spend less?
If that were the only difference, the Dems would win them all. It is precisely because the Dems promise to increase spending that they win the elections that they do. Because they have been successful at undermining the "values" of strong a work ethic, meritocracy, self-sufficiency, etc. and are replacing them with the idea that the govt. can solve peoples' problems, i.e. more spending. The idea that Republicans will spend less is their main call-to-arms.
So true. I guess I'll do a lot of begging as I age.
I want Sanford to stay. Every time a Repub. resigns the smug Dem. takes his seat. No way. If Slick Willie Clinton and "I killed the girl"Kennedy can remain in office then the cheating Repub. can stay in office. Same rules for BOTH cheaters in both parties.
Since you brought up amending the Constitution:
http://acallforchange.blogtownhall.com/default.as...
To quote Mark twain:
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Tiger – very interesting. It will be very difficult to get the two thirds of the state legislatures on board, although more doable with each passing month of "libs gone wild" style governance. Much of the proposed amendments, I agree with, although there are a few exceptions.
As much as we all can sometimes get put out with lawyers, it would be wrong to ban them from public office. Likewise, an independent prosecutor needs to be accountable to somebody. The key is to make certain the potential for turning it into a partisan weapon is minimized.
absolutely correct, Jed!
. . . and the sad part is, Mark, that many of them are not intrinsically that way to begin with. Once they get in power though, look out.
i do have a problem with at least one part of that:
a. A citizen of the United States shall be defined as anyone who is born in the United States to one or more parents who are citizens.
What does that do to children of US citizens who happen to be born abroad? (by that definition even children of military members don't fall into the US Citizen category).
2e and 2f IMO, is huge… 2g I disagree with. The staff of congressmen and senators are employees, and they have to participate in the job, even if that means travel costs.
3b… heck no!!! Congress has too much political power as is…
Some of the others I"d have to look at in depth.
Bill Clinton is thinking, "What a rookie!"
Yes, and they seem to have made planet Earth a beautiful place, right?
The "common man" works for a living, pays his bills, feeds his family, and if he is wise, lives below his means. This is the utter anti-thesis of what we see in Washington, so yes, I will "romanticize" him, and pray that "the people" will put him wear he can make a difference.
Something I believe Bernie Goldberg said struck me – paraphrasing – it's as if an entire party is being blamed for one person's fall from grace – Sanford does not represent the Republicans just like Spitzer and Edwards do not represent the Dems – how silly of the media to make such statements and assertions! Also, it's funny when Conservatives get blamed for what one person does or says – we are a party of so many voices, not the party of one voice! I feel bad for Gov. Sanford, but he did this by himself and will have to pay for it on his own. Libs just don't get it!
Except that the majority of the people in this country live fairly clean and moral lives. We like politicians that are more like us. This idea that we should "keep our pesky morals in the closet" is about as palatable as the having to keep our religion there, too. When we vote for people to represent us, we want people with whom we identify, and if the choice is between an amoral, whoring, cheating bastard and a clean cut family man with the stances on the issues being equal, I know which one I'll vote for.
Oh, they get it; they're counting on the majority of Americans not to. They successsfully used a handful of scandals prior to the 2006 elections to hammer the public perception of the Republican party into dust so that no matter what the issues at hand were, people had "Republican" and "scandal" linked in the brain. The e-mails on this affair have been in the hands of the press for 6 months! That should tell you that they're already beginning to hammer away again in the hopes that they can erase the damage that's been done to the Democrats through the current legislative mess. 2010 is coming, Democrats are down in the public perception poles nationally. Expect to see more scandals "leaked" suddenly, and plenty of Palin hate.
for now, maybe- check the brouhaha over this 'managed town hall'- even Helen Thomas was giving Gibbs a hard time. The worm is starting to turn…
There's still another level: If the problem with politics is politicians, then the problem with politicians is that they're lawyers. As long as Democrat versus Republican contests boil down to, "our lawyers are better than your lawyers" claims, many of us small-l libertarians aren't going to care.
If a third party appeared that didn't allow lawyer candidates, I'd join them and vote for their candidates exclusively. It wouldn't be a guarantee of good governance, but it couldn't possibly be as bad as the status quo.
good points, Jed-
But moreso than the lobbyists would be congressional staffers- unelected bureaucrats who would BE the continuity and while the congressman was learning the ropes, or preparing to leave- they become the power behind the scenes. That is an unintended consequence, and a pretty unpalatable one at that…
Conservative hyprocisy??? Cmon, all of the politicians are HYPOCRITES……
do as I say, not do as I do…..
The desire for political office should immediately disqualify one from holding political office. Anyone who wants it can't be trusted with it.
"Except that the majority of the people in this country live fairly clean and moral lives."
Wow. THAT, my friend, is simply adorable
"The "common man" works for a living, pays his bills, feeds his family, and if he is wise, lives below his means."
I'd like to go live on your planet, it sounds lovely.
On the one I'm on right now, "the common man" (or "normal people," if you like) have been almost nothing but cruel or bothersome to me my entire life. My antipathy toward the ordinary comes from having to live among it and experience firsthand what it does to ANYONE who is different – especially those who're compelled to rise above.
The "normal" have done comparitively little for our species. It's the brilliant, the daring, the EXTRAordinary, the visionaries… the "weirdos" as they were called in their days… who've yanked us across the yardlines of evolution. Those are the people I want in charge.
Personally, I thing the right place for lawyers is in the Judicial branch. I agree with banning them from elected office. I agree that independent prosecutors should have oversight.
Agreed on "a" – but I definitely think children born here to non-citizen parents (anchor babies) should not be allowed to be citizens.
Agree on 2g – but taking an entire entourage and their families on junkets, or flying around adult children on the taxpayer's money is ridiculous
3b – The problem is that there is no check on the Supreme Court's power here. How many of the radical Supreme Court decisions may have been overturned if Congress had the power to override decisions just as they have the power to override Presidential vetoes? Kelo vs. New London?
Finally, someone else who had the right guy! IMO
Between Michael Jackson's death and the Sanford scandal, there's nothing else going on in the world, at least according to the MSM. Another week, another politician cheats on his rich wife. I think wife-cheating is in the job description.
Regarding travel – ironically, I just saw this link on Drudge.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12465039943818423...
Congressional spending on overseas travel is up tenfold since 1995.
Sigh.
But you've gotta wonder where those dollar bills have been. Thawed, perhaps, from inside a politician's freezer?
Spoken like the true cynic. Most of the people I know are decent family people, but then, I don't live on either coast. Someone once said we send our a**holes to the coasts.
The problem with the 'check' on the SC's power is I think "overvalued'.
In terms of national policy, they really have one "task" .. declare a law or judgement as constitutional/unconstitutional.
Congress can already perform a balance on a SCOTUS decision being declared unconstitutional by rewriting/redoing the law and putting it through again. (Not to mention any law Congress passes is still valid until the SCOTUS says otherwise.)
I'm surprisingly ok with that.
Careful. John Edwards is listening.
You know what happens when the worm turns? They step on it.
unless you deep fry it and coat it in chocolate…
I assume you mean the ivy-league elite like George W Bush, who went to Yale. If you are not smart enough to run the country, you must rely on the help of good advisers. So far, Palin has not shown a good support team that could keep this country on track. Actually she has seemed to cause quite a rift in our party.
Ok, here goes;
1. In order to be eligible, you have to have completed a certain level of education (tbd)
2. You have to be currently employed and have no periods of unemployment in your history over 6 months.
3. You have to own a home or land. (still paying on it is ok)
4. You have to have been born on American soil to American Citizens.
5. You can't have been convicted of anything worse than a speeding ticket, and I mean ANYTHING.
Name goes in hat, name is drawn, you serve 4 years at your current pay, then a constituent vote decides if you get a going home bonus.
6. Lobbying is punishable by death.
7. Bribery or the acceptance of bribes is punishable by death.
Get it? No more voting, no more campaigning, no more lobbying, the money is taken out of our electoral process, we get you and me guys running the country!!!!!!!!
I dont mean cheating, I meant in general, just regrettable actions….I'm not married but I wouldnt cheat, that I know.
Maybe there should be a rift in our party. Has she created it or have the ones who don't like her done so? The standard bearers that we have now keep getting sand kicked in their faces and bending over whenever they're told to. Then after grabbing their ankles, say "Thank you sir, may I have another".
Cynicism, maybe. But only from experience.
I'm willing to consider, of course, that it comes down to semantics as to what is a "clean and moral" life. I do business with a good deal of folks who I think most would call "ordinary" people of "good morals" if they met them – i.e. traditional lifestyles/marriages, churchgoing, etc – who are AWFUL human beings, possessed of an inhumanity that I simply cannot regard as "moral" even if it is technically "clean."
On the other hand, I'm fairly certain that almost none of the folks in my social circle would be described as "moral" by many here (you'll understand if I'm slightly reticient about details in this case) and yet I count many of them as some of the most decent – where it counts – people I know.
Still, either way I have a hard time believing that a MAJORITY of people in ANY country are anything other than indifferent or utterly loathsome – Sturgeon's Law and all that
I'd like to say for the record, this indicates to me that I would be unlikely to vote for Sandford regardless of his politics or party affiliantion. Not because he cheated on his wife per se… but because he was BAD at it. People fool around on their partners every day, in numbers pushing the millions, in this country and don't get caught. There are DATING AGENCIES exclusively for this. What kind of moron gets CAUGHT!?
If I'm going to get a philanderer as President, I want JFK. I want a guy who can be nailing (among others) the biggest movie star on the PLANET so brazenly that she damn-near gives up a LAPDANCE at his public birthday party but can still sit there looking like "who, me?" like Connery-era 007. THAT'S the kinda guy I want representing my interests at the table opposite North Korea or whoever.
Hopefully one day you will. LOL! Be married that is.
Yes we all have "regrettable actions", but there are those degrees of "regrettable actions" that just make this "regrettable action" of Sanford beyond pardonable.
I would ask you to reconsider your far worse comment regarding the family. If you mean by that other family members go on murderous rampages killing their own family members, well then yes that is far worse. However, in this case, the damage Sanford is doing to this family is extremely damaging, and I would bet you they feel like they are going through a death. It certainly is a death to what these kids once took as secure, and stable. From this time forward their lives are never going to be the same. Life for them now could be so drastically different that what was once going to be their lives is no longer possible. For the rest of their lives, this will be a mark on these children because their father no only made a major mistake, but then he had to have the lack of compassion, and love for his children to make it worse by being daily in the news discussing his wants and desires.
"At some point, probably in the near future, a group of selfless people will seek political office. They won’t be career politicians, but fed up citizens who take it upon themselves to seek public office to truly make a difference. "
Have you read Animal Farm? That's more or less how it starts. It ends with those idealistic new leaders becoming every bit as corrupt as the old ones, to the point where the other characters can't tell them apart.
these people won’t work to expand government control and taxation. They will do the exact opposite.
Yeah, right… I wish.
Oh, screw him. And while we're at it, screw Janet "Right-Wing Terror" Napolitano. Now you all know what we had to suffer in Arizona the past few years with this silly b___h in charge.
"They turned the country up on one side, and everything that wasn't nailed down fell into California."
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Majority, hell — ALL human beings are filth. No matter the race, creed, color, or political orientation, there's not a single God damn one of us who can justify his existence.
Democrats are what’s wrong with democracy.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
[...] Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics ‘The Other McCain: Questions that any sane person would ask’ The Daley Gator: How does [...]
Well, since our elections seem to have become basically the same popularity contests we expect when electing a student body president, it stands to reason that movie stars would start running and winning elections.
[...] Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The Other McCain: ‘Questions that any sane person would ask’ The Daley Gator: How does [...]
[...] Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics and Conservatives Need to Fire the Marketing Department The Other McCain: ‘Questions that any [...]
[...] Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The Other McCain: ‘Questions that any sane person would ask’ The Daley Gator: How does [...]
Celebrities have been running and winning elections for quite some time.
Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono & Clint Eastwood just to name a few.
I expected Baldwin to run for the Mayor of Paris. He promised to move there if W won the election back on 2000.
[...] Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Conservatives4Palin: Rep. Bob Inglis’ (R-SC) Confusing Statement Regarding Governor Palin Why [...]
no I didnt mean anyone going on any rampages
[...] Their Biases and Why Aren’t Feminists Upset With David Letterman? Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The Daley Gator: How does Sarah Palin keep fit? Conservatives4Palin: Rep. Bob Inglis’ (R-SC) [...]
[...] Their Biases and Why Aren’t Feminists Upset With David Letterman? Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The Daley Gator: How does Sarah Palin keep fit? PBS’s Bonnie Erbe Reiterates Her Palin [...]
[...] Their Biases and Why Aren’t Feminists Upset With David Letterman? Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The Daley Gator: How does Sarah Palin keep fit? Why Mommy Is a Palin Supporter: Video: Freedom of [...]
[...] Elected Office Early Hillbuzz: Is Harry Reid a racist, or just a bigot? Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Scared Monkeys: Democrats Senate Leader Harry Reid in Real Trouble in 2010 Election Bid … Where [...]
[...] and BUMPED: How Celtic Diva Treats Trig Palin; UPDATE: Call to Action Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics The Daley Gator: How does Sarah Palin keep fit? Why Mommy Is a Palin Supporter: Video: Freedom of [...]
[...] Frank rips prez’s ‘big mistake’ – Fuming over anti-gay wed filing Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Confederate Yankee: “The Obama Administration is the Most Fiscally Irresponsible in the [...]
[...] lost Unfavorable Odds: Stimulus Math: $26,160,955 Per Job Saved/Created Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics Confederate Yankee: “The Obama Administration is the Most Fiscally Irresponsible in the [...]
You must be logged in to post a comment.