He didn’t wait; the dems did. He won and was a threat, so they took him out with a scandal that would have left a dem untouched, exposed or not.
I don’t care if RINOs get ousted, but real conservatives must be like Caesar’s wife, which fits right in with real conservative values and behavior.
Was the girl a Dem operative? Who was she?
All the way through his election, Souder tried to knock down the affair story, calling it revenge politics at play. But the backroom chatter in Indiana and among the GOP on Capitol Hill became too much to survive. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was informed as late as Monday night that Souder would give up his post.
Dream on.
The dichotomy couldn’t be more clear. The Republican has to leave for an affair (with an employee, perfectly appropriate) but no Democrat would have to. The Democrats, in a crass and cynical political move, out him right after the primary.
I mind less that they aren’t held to the same personal morality standards as Republicans, but they can engage in obvious and slimy dirty tricks and get away with that, too.