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Here's the deal with this thread: it was revealed a while back that a pseudo-celebrity who positions himself as a public figure and role model for the "family values" crowd admitted to molesting his two sisters. He toured the press circuit tearfully apologizing for his actions, saying that he had a problem in his youth and begging forgiveness. His core audience gladly gives him that forgiveness, then it comes out that he has accounts on a website for married individuals to meet up with other married individuals for the purposes of cheating on their spouses. It has nothing to do with his political allegiances--at least, it didn't until you dragged that up. Even Drifter commented on the person rather than the party. It has everything to do with the fact that this man, who positions himself as a role model, has sexual feelings for minors and sleeps around while his wife cares for their four kids. It's utterly ridiculous for you to come in here and make this about political parties.
So which is it? Does it have nothing to do with his political allegiances or are you taking into account his public endorsement of conservative principles of family values?
No one had said one damn dirty thing about the letter after his name on his voter ID card until you came in insisting that a Democrat wouldn't have been scrutinized for similar actions. Have you conveniently forgotten about how John Edwards was dragged through the mud by everybody, and his career was a smoldering pile of cow dung afterwards? How about Bill Clinton nearly being forced out of the White House because he couldn't keep his cigar out of Monica's dress? What about Anthony Weiner being skewered by the national media--all of the national media--before resigning in disgrace?
Don't even try to come in here and act like Josh Duggar gets crap for rape and adultery because he's a Republican, while Democrats get away with it all the time. Josh Duggar is getting it piled on because he's a public figure that positions himself as a role model--a role model that sexually assaults his siblings and brazenly cheats on his wife.
1.) There is a contextual difference between clothes on touching of someone in your relative age group and pedophilia molestation. Its not to justify the former, but there is a difference and its unfair to confuse the two. To call it rape is whole other thing but i think we all know that its for show.
2.) Case and point with Bill Clinton, he has a laundry list of accusations of sexual misconduct that go way beyond the pale of a cigar with Monica. You have alleged sexual assaults that have nothing to do with misplaced adolescent curiosity. Add into that the fact that we now know that he associated with a guy who ran an underaged brothel that Bill was at least around and then couple that with the fact that Uma Abedin is the wife of Anthony Weiner and Chief assistant to the secretary of state and you have a situation where the inner circle of the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination has an inner circle of abusers, pedophiles, and molesters not to mention her own track record as the head of BIMBO eruptions on her husbands Campaign. I guarantee you if one of the Dugars ran for president it would be hard to have a press conference where this wouldn't come up.
3.) Adultery is one of the most cowardly acts under the face of the sun. I have no sympathy for the guy.
