Lots of sick folk in politics.
you know, I was thinking the exact same thing.
Easy to jump on this as a lefty phenomenon...and certainly it is that.
But it’s actually a right wing phenom as well. How many anti-gay campaigners have gotten caught, well, being gay? How many family values advocates have gotten busted in some sort of affair, or whatnot?
Perhaps it is conceptually most correct to note that this is a politically phenom, rather than just an ideologically one. Politics seems to attract the sick people, and seems to magnifiy their sicknesses....