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Ensign to Acknowledge Extramarital Affair
Wash Post ^ | June 16, 2009 | Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane

Posted on 06/16/2009 2:59:31 PM PDT by Hawk720

Edited on 06/16/2009 3:56:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: CajunConservative

Seriously, as if that wasn’t made clear around here during the primaries.


61 posted on 06/16/2009 4:56:43 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: The Pack Knight

Had we not purged some of the better fighters of the party we wouldn’t be on the brink of a fascist takeover.


62 posted on 06/16/2009 5:00:20 PM PDT by CajunConservative (F U 0bama)
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To: All

The “Resident in Chief” said we’re not a Christian nation.

So what’s the BFD ??????
s/o


63 posted on 06/16/2009 5:00:53 PM PDT by Jeffrey_D.
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To: CajunConservative
Yes, I'm kinda irked at all the self-righteous 'toss the bum out' claptrap. Sure, he did wrong, and he knows it. I sure as hell won't call it righteous behavior. However, Ensign has been a fairly stand-up conservative overall. I'm willing to bet better than half the rock-throwers have done the same thing and it's more fun to peg someone else. So he will keep my vote, because there's no way in hell I want to see his seat go to some piece of sh!t blue-stater carpetbagger.
64 posted on 06/16/2009 5:04:50 PM PDT by thescourged1
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To: CajunConservative

And people wonder why our party is leaderless right now. I mean, why not scratch some names off of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution while we’re at it? A lot of those men had some pretty serious flaws as well.

Not only that, but this reinforces the perception that the GOP is populated by a bunch of holier-than-thou busybodies. It’s this perception, fair or not, that turns off a whole lot of Americans who otherwise support most of the Republican platform. I guess we’d prefer to be a pure minority than actually do anything for our country.


65 posted on 06/16/2009 5:08:37 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: dfwgator
Apparently he was targeted for blackmail, and decided to go public with the affair rather than pay the guy off. Frankly, that makes me more comfortable trusting him with national security secrets. At least he's proven that he's resistant to blackmail.
66 posted on 06/16/2009 5:12:11 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: muawiyah

“No, no, he’s heterosexual. If this’d been a gay thing he would have been in the wrong party.”

Ever hear of Larry Craig and Mark Foley?


67 posted on 06/16/2009 5:14:15 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Hawk720

Ensign will be easily relected to the senate in 2012, but his presidential aspirations are over.


68 posted on 06/16/2009 5:18:58 PM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and help stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: Hawk720

Sorry, but I think this is nobody’s damn business.


69 posted on 06/16/2009 5:22:20 PM PDT by truthkeeper (Take me back to Black-and-White.)
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To: j0hng4lt69

Sure looks like it. Maybe he had on the job training from Bill Clinton.


70 posted on 06/16/2009 5:23:38 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ensign will easily win re-election 2012, but his presidential aspirations are over.


71 posted on 06/16/2009 5:26:04 PM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and help stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: thescourged1

There are some hypocrites on our side. Fools who are ready to destroy everyone who is not perfect.


72 posted on 06/16/2009 5:28:04 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: TomGuy

You know, I really wish they would not trot out their poor wives. It is like cruelty heaped on cruelty :-(


73 posted on 06/16/2009 5:29:32 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: Hawk720
I am sick and tired of Republicans tripping on their dicks. Don't these dopes realize that people are watching and noticing their missteps.

Paging RNC, stop the screwing around, NOW!

74 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:41 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Obama really did believe that stuff he was saying during the campaign)
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To: kittykat77
"Just once -- and mind you I'm not advocating violence here -- but just once I'd like to see one of those aggrieved wives at one of those press conferences stick a fork into her spouse's forehead.... the way Elaine did to an ex-boyfriend on Seinfeld."

LOL!

Actually, I'd like to see the wife standing next to him, listening, while he's making this BS speech about "how sorry he is", and then just, out of nowhere, she turns around and decks him!

If that happened, I think we'd all love her to death!

75 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:48 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: southern rock

Ensign made a mistake, but his seat is safe, he’s not up until 2012, he’ll be fine, although his presidential aspirations are over. The big issue is the economy, it will dwarf most everything over the next 2 years.


76 posted on 06/16/2009 5:34:32 PM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and help stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: Hawk720

Dem: resume enhancer

Rep: Kiss of death.

See ya John. Don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out.


77 posted on 06/16/2009 5:38:00 PM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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Ensign admits affair; sources say blackmail involved

Actually, it is not as bad as I thought. He and his wife were separated at the time of the affair. They have since reconciled. He blew the whistle on it rather than be blackmailed.

78 posted on 06/16/2009 5:40:53 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: muawiyah

They did have Jim McGreevey but lets at least be honest. The Republicans seems to have the lions share of outed gay scandals over the last 4 or 5 years.

The Dems are mostly out and don’t give a crap, like Barney Frank. I think it is the conservative gay politicians and leaders that are the repressed ones. Consider Rep. Edward L. Schrock(R), Sen. Larry Craig(R), RNC Chair Ken Mehlman(R), Rep. Mark Foley(R), NAE leader Ted Arthur Haggard(R), etc. etc.

Human nature is human nature, gay or straight, cheating or honest. It really isn’t a political ideology thing.


80 posted on 06/16/2009 5:48:16 PM PDT by jackmercer
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