Way back in 1884, Grover Cleveland (D) was running against James G. Blaine (R) for the presidency.
Blaine was a profoundly corrupt businessman - tons of influence peddling scandals, etc.
Cleveland was pretty honest for a politician - cleaned up first his home town and then Tammany Hall in NY State.
But during the campaign, Blaine's people dug up evidence that Cleveland (a bachelor) had fathered an illegitimate child on a sprightly widow back home in Buffalo.
So they rang up the 'hypocrisy' accusations on 'Grover the Good' - e.g.
"Ma - Ma - where's my pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"
But perhaps the best word was that of somebody who wrote a letter to the editor of one of the Cleveland papers - and it's equally applicable today:
"I gather that Mr. Cleveland has shown high character and great capacity in public office but that in private life his conduct has been open to question, while, on the other hand, Mr. Blaine, in public life has been weak and dishonest, while he seems to have been an admirable husband and father. The conclusion that I draw from these facts is that we should elect Mr. Cleveland to the public office which he is so admirably qualified to fill and remand Mr. Blaine to the private life which he is so eminently fitted to adorn."