Oversexed politicians
Here's a writer stewing over political fallout from Mark Sanford's affair. He suggests it might help Sarah Palin and women candidates in general. Women are less likely to stray than men and thus voters might gravitate in their direction following the spate of Republican sex scandals, he writes.
It's true that men win the political scandal sweepstakes hands down. A compilation of political sex scandals by MSNBC listed 23 men and one woman, former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth. (pictured, just for old time's sake.)
But here's a question: All the cheating men had to have someone to cheat with. And for the big majority of them, that meant a woman. If men are more likely to cheat does it mean a smaller number of women are doubling up?
Anyway, the writer thinks Mike Huckabee will fare well:
Former Mississippi [sic] Gov. Mike Huckabee also should fare well. A former pastor, he seems unlikely to be tainted by similar behavior -- but is also specifically nonjudgmental. At least, compared to most pastors, he does not seem to be the sort to condemn. As Huckabee told ABC News,
"We're reminded that even good people do bad things, and smart people do dumb things. What Mark did was bad and dumb. I won't stop being his friend, but I won't pretend that what he did was okay, 'cause it wasn't. What he did to his wife and four sons is between them."



Comments
I'm trying to determine whether Huckabuck is taking offense at the writer's locating him to MS or if The Huckster's just grateful to have his name spelled correctly and be considered a quote.
Posted by: 70%er
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June 29, 2009 04:11 PM
"Former Mississippi Gov. Mike Huckabee also should fare well. A former pastor, he seems unlikely to be tainted by similar behavior . . ."
Huh?
Two huhs, now that I stopped snorting about godly preachers . . .
Posted by: Doigotta
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June 29, 2009 04:22 PM
I think I meant saintly preachers. Now I gotta clean up the monitor and keyboard. I don't think dried spittle is good for 'em. Or wet spittle . . .
Posted by: Doigotta
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June 29, 2009 04:24 PM
"What Mark did was bad and dumb. I won't stop being his friend, but I won't pretend that what he did was okay, 'cause it wasn't. What he did to his wife and four sons is between them."
However if Bill Clinton has a affair in office then it's between him, his wife and daughter, a Special prosecutor, Congress and the chief justice of SCOTUS, ASA! and every media outlet in USA.
Posted by: eLwood
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June 29, 2009 04:29 PM
Ah....most preachers like a knob job too, but finding a woman willing to do the Huckster.....that could keep a bad boy pure like Christ likes em. I've always tried to do the math on this cheating guy thing too. If 100 married men cheat.....where do the 100 women come from? Or is it 50 girls doing 2 or 25 girls doing 4, or one really really really busy woman?
I know cause I can feel it in my bones that men still have the caveman gene to mate with anything The way we're built is responsible for our current fat and sassy and large world population. Girls....don't blame us....we were programed to be bad from the womb.
There's a tranny in my neighborhood and from a distance he looks real good, sorta June Allyson like. But I nearly pass out every time I get close to this vision and it's Gilligan in a dress. I saw him/her 2 days ago and this heat is really getting to him/her.....they looked even more terrible than usual. I am happy if he wants to be a woman...I just feel like Charlie Brown with Lucy snatching the football away every time I drive along and see this he-she and my rotor-tail starts spinning....all for naught.
I'm sorta like a street vendor selling buggy whips these days..past my time...I wish my head would quit jerking around every time a nice looking woman comes into view...got old arthur in my neck, don't ya know. But I can't make it stop and I figure if I was yer Senator I'd have a squeeze quicker than I'd have my office furniture picked out.
But remember, the important part about an elected official is that they FK the office staff.....not their constituents..... gathering notches on their belt won't hurt you like them voting like Pryor & Lincoln do.... May I remind you excluding whatever Jeff Gannon/Guckert was doing in the White House....SEX didn't get us into the mess we're in today.
Posted by: Deathbyinches
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June 29, 2009 04:33 PM
I've been saying for quite sometime now that Huckabee, of all people in the political arena, is poised as the most susceptible of the lot to fall from grace because of a sex scandal.
Think about it. He is a preacher (well, he was at one time or another...am not passing judgement on how good of a preacher he was...ha!), he has made lots of pronouncements against those who have fallen at one time or another, and he has the perfect witch of a wife (why not stray if something is offered to you when the alternative is Janet?).
Mark my words when it does (and will) happen... I said it here first.
Posted by: bluerthanblue
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June 29, 2009 04:37 PM
She was born in Topeka, Kan., grew up in Oregon and attended Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash. She managed a medical center in Idaho before her election as executive director of the state Republican Party. She was chief of staff, then campaign manager, for Rep. Steven D. Symms (R-Idaho), before running for Congress.
In turn, she scolded Congress after the Oklahoma City federal building bombing for not trying to understand anti-government activists. She also held hearings on "black helicopters," which militia members believed were filled with United Nations-sponsored storm troopers eager to swoop into the broken-down ranches of the rural West and impose international law. The helicopters were piloted by state wildlife officers patrolling for poachers, National Guardsmen looking for marijuana farms or military aircraft from nearby bases on training missions.
Days after she ran television ads attacking President Bill Clinton for having an affair with a White House intern, and urging him to resign, she admitted that she had a long-term affair in the 1980s with a married man. The admission didn't hurt her or her family-values platform; she was reelected to her third and final term in 1998.
Her marriage to Nick Chenoweth ended in divorce. Her second husband, Wayne Hage, was a Nevada rancher who was the best-known face of the Sagebrush Rebellion,...
Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, the arch-conservative Idaho Republican whose deep suspicion of the government and federal law enforcement carried her to three terms in Congress, died Oct. 2 in a car crash near Tonopah, Nev.
Washington Post
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
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Posted by: eLwood
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June 29, 2009 04:44 PM
Am I mistaken or hasn't recent research suggested that married women cheat at nearly the same rate as married men?
Posted by: In THE Pines
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June 29, 2009 04:46 PM
So the Huck thinks its fine if a man goes out and cheats on his wife but he'll condemn gays and lesbians?
Nothing like a hypocritical Christian.
Posted by: EcoLez08
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June 29, 2009 04:57 PM
"Bob Barr is the Republican Congressman from Georgia who sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." He was married three times, and paid for his second wife's abortion (she also suspected he was cheating on her). he failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife and was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party."
John Bolton, President George W. Bush's highly contested appointee ambassador to United Nations is suspected of forcing his former wife to be involved in unsavory group sex acts. Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton's first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato's Retreat, the popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-California), has been called the champion of the Christian Coalition and its "family values." But in reality, Ken Calvert was sued as an alimony "deadbeat dad" by his ex-wife who said, "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In 1993, Calvert was caught by police officers receiving oral sex from a prostitute. He attempted to flee the scene but apparently couldn't move fast enough to get away from police, and was arrested.
Neal Horsley is a political figure of the far right, and the author of a website devoted to his advocacy of militant pro-life, secessionist, and anti-gay views. He has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. He admitted on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, that he's had sex with mules. He put photographs on his Web site of naked men engaging in homosexual acts and a nude woman engaging in bestiality amid shots of grotesquely maimed fetuses. Drug dealer convicted of possession of hashish with intent to sell. He calls for "the establishment of a new government, one that can obey God's plan for government."
There's a lot more than 25 scandals. Who they kidding. Republicons are bat-shit crazy about sex.
clickit.
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Posted by: eLwood
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June 29, 2009 05:06 PM
Yes, the flesh is weak, and though I've personally been burned by a cheat, I've also been sorely tempted. So I try not to judge. HOWEVER, I just love the comments on Fox News. Like this one:
"It seems like faithful people judge unfaithful people. They think they're so much better than adulterers. Adulterers are people too. They have rights. Thankfully, lots of Republicans feel that way and support Senator Ensign and Governor Sanford. Democrats are attacking family values every day. Republicans like Ensign and Sanford have stood up for family values even while committing adultery. That's how strong they believe in family values. Democrats don't stand up for family values when they commit adultery. They just lie under oath."
"Republicans like Ensign and Sanford have stood up for family values even while committing adultery. That's how strong they believe in family values." So, logically, if logic exists in Fox World, that Scoutmaster or Sunday school teacher or whatever he was who was the BTK serial killer in Kansas, he was just sort of upholding family values even as he killed people. That is just so precious.
Posted by: Clarissa
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June 29, 2009 05:07 PM
Don't know if it will help Palin at all. Remember back during the campaign it came out that she was linked with one of Todd's business partners in an affair. They never really put that charge to rest and it could come back to bite her in the ass, so to speak. Of couse that's just one of many things that will come back to haunt her.
I hope she does run. It's always so much fun to watch the repubs eating their own during the primary season.
Posted by: HardHeadedWoman
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June 29, 2009 05:22 PM
Just another thought. What kind of woman would have an affair with Huckabee? I mean, REALLY!
Posted by: HardHeadedWoman
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June 29, 2009 05:26 PM
>>Republicans like Ensign and Sanford have stood up for family values even while committing adultery.
Thanks Clarissa.
Neal Horsley was likely praising the lord and calling for family values while screwing mules.
Posted by: eLwood
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June 29, 2009 05:27 PM
Clarissa, Clarissa, Clarrisa, you've missed Fox's point.
There's folks what have to be MADE to live up to Family Values.
Then there's folks what have to make sure they do. (Do as I say, not as I do.) If those good folks hammer the first edict home loudly enough, well, they get a get out of jail free card. Or is it a get out of purgatory card? I'll admit it. I'm soooo confused.
Posted by: Doigotta
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June 29, 2009 05:31 PM
The GOP-they campaign on getting govenment out of our lives and in our bedrooms where they belong.
Huckster-either he was called to be a preacher and has sold out for fame, money, and FAUX which is sort of like telling God that he wasn't interested or he wasn't called and wasn't a good judge of what God wanted and thus was a liar.
Maybe God really wanted Huckabee to be in MS. Why be 49th when you can be 50th?
Posted by: Couldn't Be Better
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June 29, 2009 05:48 PM
Doigotta: Weird but true -- if you can ever find a Ouachita Baptist yearbook from the time Huckabee attended, check it out. He was a slender, dimpled cutie! No lie. I definitely would have done him back in the day, as long as he never uttered a word. I'm so ashamed.
Posted by: Clarissa
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June 29, 2009 05:53 PM
So embarrassed. I meant to direct my yearbook comment to HardHeadedWoman.
Posted by: Clarissa
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June 29, 2009 05:56 PM
SOMEONE TELL ME QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how does a man fk a mule??????????????????????????
on a stepladder????????????????????
Posted by: jazzy
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June 29, 2009 05:58 PM
aren't they tall with a large va-jay jay???????????
All my men like a tight fit.
jes askin questions.
Posted by: jazzy
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June 29, 2009 06:03 PM
Clarrissa, no problem. Okay, that was , what? 30...35 years ago? Of course now he's got that whole teevee personality thing workin' for him.
All I can say is....ewwww!
Posted by: HardHeadedWoman
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June 29, 2009 07:04 PM
Men of the AT Blogosphere--on behalf of ALL men everywhere, I beseech ye to NOT answer Jazzy's inquiries. I am hoping that no one knows the answers to "how to" , and if you DO know the answer, let's just remain silent for once, okay?
Posted by: Sanford
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June 29, 2009 07:11 PM
Just to break Sanford's silence...I've posted this before..because I read it in a Faulkner short story...
there are "stump horses." You can figure out the rest.
If you really want to know, like really, send Neal Horsley ten $ donation, tell him you're from France and want to know about men's antics when doin a mule. If you get a response likely you could sell it.
Posted by: eLwood
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June 29, 2009 07:26 PM
Jazzy, I think thats why sheep are so popular with perverts. How does a man FK a mule? Some things, we are better off just not knowing.
Now i must stress that I didnt know this pervert personally, thank the Lord, and it even lives in another state, but I heard a story about a man who decided to fk his pet monkey one time. He forgot two things: Monkeys are not known for their cheerful dispositions and cooperative natures, and he forgot to ask the monkey if it was in the mood.
It wasnt and it bit him. that monkey ground up his organ pretty good. well, thats one way to deal with convicted sex offenders -- give 'em all a pet monkey. I swear this is true. A terrible infection ensued and, of course, Loverboy was hesitant to go to the doctor, so he let it get pretty bad before he finally did, but Im sorry to say I think they were able to save everything.
I have absolutely no idea how a man would have sex with a mule. Or why. And I think I'm happier this way, really. considering the old expression "Hung like a mule," that does sort of back up your theory that it wouldnt exactly be a tight fit. Maybe this is one of those things a man just doesnt think through completely before he takes on the project. Also mules are not known for their good natures. Men really should consider that before jumping into bed so to speak with an animal but i guess if a man is gonna fk a mule there isnt a whole lot of thinking going on at the time. Not with the northern brain, anyway.
I still think we're better off not knowing. I confess I have never wondered why until I read this, had you?
I dont think the Huckster would ever cheat on Janet because just think what she'd do to him when she found out? Since he lost all that weight, she's got a pretty good size advantage over that ol' boy.
Posted by: tina
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June 29, 2009 07:37 PM
Tina,,,have you seen the Huck lately????? I was bored or trying to escape my dark thoughts
over the w/end ............landed on FFFFFOX and there was THE HOLY ONE....just as round
and roly poly as when he first burst into our view,,,,,that high living in New York City is even
better than Taco Bell it seems,,,,he makes me gag tho' I might have to call our 6 month old
man child *Huck.*.....he has deep chin dimple and in both cheeks...........damn, I was passed
over in the dimple department.
I am trying to figure out how to pen this kid in.....6 mos old and wrecking our home, not
suppose to happen at 6 mos.
Posted by: jazzy
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June 29, 2009 08:24 PM
If mules are generally male, does that mean...?
"OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal."
Ambrose Bierce
Posted by: Zatharus
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June 29, 2009 08:28 PM
Jazzy, consider yourself lucky. I've got dimples all over my cheeks....oh, wait....we're you talking about on the face?
Posted by: HardHeadedWoman
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June 29, 2009 08:29 PM
Sorry...'were'.
Had an involuntary apostrophe spasm.
Posted by: HardHeadedWoman
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June 29, 2009 08:31 PM
Tina - study a little history and you will find that alot of Merchant Marine Captains had a pet goat on their ship!
Posted by: Goof
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June 29, 2009 08:45 PM
I havent seen the Huckster lately, but I had heard he'd put on weight. Shame to go through that gastric bypass surgery and then gain the weight back. It would be hard, though, to work the rubber-chicken circuit when you can't eat but a few teeny bites.
Jazzy, you're gonna traumatize that kid!!!!!!! Find him another nickname, please?
Posted by: tina
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June 29, 2009 08:52 PM
OK gonna tuck tail and run..........wearing day tomorrow in hosp for more x-rays..........
will it never end for dear Frenchie??? my heart is broken for this dear dear man.
Naw tina will never call the kid Huck....in south Louisiana all the kids were *tee something*......
tee boy, tee cher, tee amie............
I call him Skipper, Lil Toot, Boo Boo.....he flashes his dimples and buries his face in my chest,
so sorry he has a prostate.
Posted by: jazzy
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June 29, 2009 09:59 PM
Most of these men are not cheating with women that are politicians, so for the women there's no problem in that respect.
Posted by: rablib
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June 30, 2009 04:04 AM
Power is the aphrodisiac. Male politicians are able to get hotter (at least more, or one) chicks than the same guys would if they weren't politicians. They're supermen doing mortal women. Anybody think Wilber Mills was the kind of hunk that would attract an internationally known stripper if he wasn't Rep. Wilber? The women just come from the general populace (excepting Chenowith, who did normal men).
DBI is right on about Christians liking to mix their myths with their reality, and people like Sanford and all the holier than thous who fell before he did were wired to be obsessed with sex and sin in general. They rail against it because they are so interested in it. Same with the loudest gay bashers usually being latent homos, like Foley and Craig. Wasn't there a line in a 400 year old play about suspecting somebody who doth protest too much? This isn't new knowledge about human behavior.
Posted by: Whoscrumdown
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June 30, 2009 10:52 AM