Why is it a big deal if he consorts prostitutes? Exactly how does that affect his ability to do his job?
If given the choice between a candidate who has a pristine personal life, but who disagrees with me on the issues, or the candidate who is well known around town as well, someone who is less than pristine, but who has views in line with mine, well, I’m supporting the one that agrees with me, not the one who lives a “good clean life”
We all act as if this had never happened before. You know, my father was the first person in his family line (from what I know) to have never even strayed once. There was a time when people got married and stayed married, for better or worse, and commandment against adultery not withstanding, many women in higher stratas just accepted that at one point or another, the husband would have an affair. Eisenhower did it. Somehow, F.D.R did it. You can go through the list of Presidents who had affairs, and yet none of them were ever called out on it. So why all the sudden do we feel the need to make this public news.
The only reason this has become an issue today is because people actually do have a willingness to get divorced whereas they usually didn’t back in the olden days. Jimmy Carter was a man who seemingly, led a good Christian life, was even a Baptist missionary. He was also an abject failure as President. On the other hand, you have a man like Reagan, who we know had divorced and remarried, and who, probably had affairs in the non-married times, and he was one of the best presidents the country ever had.
If someone cheats that usually means their is something wrong with the marriage, because usually, in happy, well-functioning marriages, people don’t cheat. People cheat when something has gone amiss. Marital problems have nothing to do with competency to do the job.
It leaves him open for blackmail. Really stupid on his part.
You write as if seeing a hooker is like cheating.
Ike's biographer said the allegation was hogwash. It was a bitter and elderly Harry Truman who put it out there. As for FDR, after he contracted polio, it's quite possible he may not have been able to consummate any illicit affair. Besides, one could hardly blame FDR for wanting to be with the woman he loved and who loved him in return (and was with her when he died in Warm Springs). After learning more about that power-hungry ice-cold lesbian bitch Eleanor, and the "deal" she made with her husband for not sandbagging his political career, it increased my sympathy for FDR enormously.
Any other laws you would so conveniently allow a lawmaker to violate then in the course of *doing his job*??
Look out...you are being way too rationals and intelligent. You will get flamed! ha.
I call B.S. on you, You said: “Why is it a big deal if he consorts prostitutes? Exactly how does that affect his ability to do his job?”
It is called judgement, putting ones self in risky stupid situations. I do not want our leaders handling the nation’s future with that type of thinking.
I think you might be on the wrong site.
You'll probably be flamed for that. I'd still vote for him, if I lived in Looziana.
Most Dems and Pubbies seem to agree on one thing about Monicagate - it was all about sex. Well, it wasn't to me. It was about perjury and obstruction of justice by the President in giving testimony before a federal judge in a sex discrimination lawsuit. That justifies impeachment, IMHO. Philandering, which we've had plenty of in the White House and Congress in the history of the Republic, doesn't.
If it makes you subject to blackmail, it does. I like watching liberals' heads spin around, when I remind them that 100% of what we know about the Clinton-Lewinski affair was what she freely admitted, and what he did not deny, and that we have NO idea if she blackmailed him to do something on behalf of Israel for her to stay silent. Since they are usually Israel-haters, that really makes them wince a bit.
Also, if it distracts you from your governmental mandate, then it's a problem. I tell my lib friends and acquaintances, that since I never voted for Clinton, it wasn't my agenda that he failed to deliver on during his second term. I laugh that I'm glad he did it, because that prevented him from making law changes that I wouldn't have liked, that they would have loved.
If they're still listening, I tell them that it was a standing joke on the late-night circuit that George W. Bush was some sort of coke-snorting party animal, just as Bill Clinton's infidelity was made fun of during the 1992 campaign. However, if a videotape surfaced, showing Bush to be drinking and buzzing out on blow, the Republicans would have instantly repudiated him, unlike the Democrats that rallied around Clinton while he was lying to them with an "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" off his sneering lips.
At that point, they pretty much shut up and leave.