[ScottinVA]

While the jury instructions calling for conviction based on suspected “winks and nods” created the possibility for a successful appeal by the defense, there’s an even bigger takeaway from this case: Do NOT... EVER.. accept gifts at any time if you are a GOP officeholder. The system is now structurally arranged to allow democrats as much corruption as they want (Maxine Waters, Charles Rangel, et al), but a GOPer will not get the same latitude. So the best course is staying above reproach. Politely reject even the smallest of tokens.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

McDonnell actually did nothing for Jonnie Williams.

There was no "pro" for the "quid," therefore there was no crime.

The McDonnells are guilty of low-class behavior, but if that is a crime then Ubama deserves the death penalty.

[moovova]

The big difference between Dims and Republicans...

If a Republican gets caught, BOTH sides want justice.

If a Dim gets caught, the Republicans are the only ones demanding punishment. For the Dims, it’s a resume enhancer.

[SamuraiScot]

Should I be suspicious, just because a couple of years ago, O'Donnell was a successful Republican governor talked about as Presidential material, and then Obama's Federal government started an investigation—into a situation where the Federal government was not involved—where the corruption alleged was around . . .$120,000?

How much money was involved in the theft of GM, and how much was the payoff to Obama's political backers?

[Graybeard58]

But a jury found that he and his wife also served themselves, using his office to get sweetheart loans and other favors in exchange...

Pikers compared to Chris Dodd........ and countless other rats.

[Soul of the South]

I have no sympathy for the McDonnells no matter what their intent or the political motivations of their persecutors. There are many temptations put before each of us in life. God gives us the free will to choose. If we choose poorly we are held accountable, if not in this life in the next.

[buckalfa]

Political vendettas and moral equivalency arguments being set aside, my problem with the case is the notion of entitlement that all too many in public life seem to have.

[ontap]

I don’t care how good a governor he was.....if he knowingly broke the law he should go to jail. We don’t need some one like that when we are giving dems the grief they so richly deserve. McDonald is an embarrassment and evidently a bribe taker!!

[greedo]

If he did not break any laws, why did he

a.) apologize,

b.) lawyer-up, and

c.) pay the money back.

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[Theodore R.]

The Virginia GOP, once the most promising in the South, is a shell of its former self with failure of the people to put up good candidates. I don’t see any end in site to the VA GOP suicide, “macaca” or not.