I agree with you about the converse argument.

For Dems and Liberals it would be taxes. Anyone who advocates higher taxes and then tries to cheat on their taxes (Kerry and his yacht for example- or that MA congresscritter who voted to raise the booze tax in his home state and then drove his state issued Crown Vic up to NH and loaded up the trunk with tax free booze) should be forced to resign in shame by fellow Democrats.

"Paul" Ryan? Are you sure you have that name right? I remember a "Jack" Ryan who would have run against President Obama for senator in Illinois if his sealed divorce decree had not been made public. I don't recall "Paul Ryan" in any scandal.

Everyone has forgotten or seems to forget the Wilbur Mills scandal in the early 1970s. For those of you that are too young to remember, Congressman Wilbur Mills (D-AR) was the most powerful member of Congress in this time period He was the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Basically, the same position that censured Congressman Charles Rangel held in the 111th Congress. Well to make a long story short, Mills was caught with a hooker in a Washington DC park, (the same park that was featured in the movie "Murder At 1600") doing the Humpty Dumpty. At first the state controlled media tried to cover it up, as they always do; but he called them a bunch of bastards and that pissed them off. After a long drawn out play in the media, Mills finally resigned his seat in the Congress and has never been heard from since.

Oh, crap... thanks, SER. Duly fixed.

J.

Actually I think the dems really are being consistent. They hold the right to the right's own standard of behavior and they hold themselves to their own standard of behavior.

The problem is that for the left, right and wrong are all relativistic terms. For conservatives, who believe in an objective morality, adultery is always considered wrong. For the left it depends on the situation. Ask them under what conditions they think adultery is OK and they waffle, but catch them in it and I can guarantee you that their circumstances fit the conditions where it is OK.

Substitute adultery with tax evasion, bribery, corruption, espionage, treason, or murder and you will understand the democratic party quite well.

I recall hearing that Wilbur Mills, after the "Troubles" went back to Arkansas, changed his name to Clinton, sired two or three kids, and lived an indolent life. One of the kids did quite well for himself, in porn films, as I recall. The other was a hopeless drunk who read a lot, fancied himself as some sort of philosopher, and made home made beer.

You forgot Barney Frank and the congressman from the cape(whose name eludes me) who got caught with an 18 year old page. Both reelected.

Re: adultery - I'm waiting for one of them to try something along the lines of, "The lady in question has not yet achieved the age of majority... therefore this was not adultery."

For shame, Sharon. Of all the people to forget, Gerry STUDDS?

J.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Mills

Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992)

Mills stepped down from his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged his alcoholism, joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and checked himself into Palm Beach Institute at West Palm Beach.[3][4] He did not seek re-election in 1976, devoted his time to counseling individual alcoholics,[citation needed] and raising funds for alcoholic treatment centers, including one founded in his honor at Searcy, Arkansas, the Wilbur D. Mills Treatment Center for Alcohol and Drugs. He also became affiliated as of counsel with Washington office of the New York political powerhouse law firm Shea & Gould. He was succeeded by Jim Guy Tucker.[citation needed]

Wilbur Mills died in Searcy. He is buried at Kensett Cemetery in Kensett.

Hasn't the family values label long since been abandoned by the repubs?

As to Lee, if he's this dumb to send stupid pics the way he did, it's better he does resign. Any stupider and he'd have to switch parties.

Sorry, J. Live in central Mass under the regime of Castro's favorite congressman, Jim McGovern.

It took me a couple of seconds, too, Sharon, but you gotta admit... a gay congressman who bangs an underage male page named STUDDS? You couldn't make that up.

J.

True,true. On the other hand, so much corruption in Ma it is hard to keep track of it all. Why oh why do I live here? It is certainly not for the weather.

"Why oh why do I live here? It is certainly not for the weather."

I moved here from Chicago. Why?

* The economy is better (MA is not deliberately driving out jobs, at least not yet).
* Less crime (what Boston natives think is dangerous is merely average in Chicago).
* The government is not any more corrupt.
* The weather is better, not wonderful, but I will take it over Chicago's any day.

SPOT ON! Jay Tea......This hypocrisy is something a REAL media would renounce immediately and have a field day following. However, we have the MSM of today, toddies to the DEMs and their position.....I am ashamed to admit I was a media person more than 35 years ago. However, in my time, we actually explored BOTH sides of a story and presented it for public consideration. That day is long-gone.

S-A-D!!!!!

I kind of shrugged my shoulders at this when it came out. Meh. OTOH, I think Congressman Dooku resigned because there are likely more instances like this out there. A guy doesn't send shirtless pics to people on CL just once, y'know.

There's a cute oblique reference to the Wilbur Mills scandal in the "radio roulette" opening of WKRP in Cincinnati:

"... althouth the Senator denied he was intoxicated, he could not explain his nudity ..."