Quote:My guess is that when republicans are involved in something like this, it's a big deal.  If it's a democrat, not news.

 

 

Quote:Democrats have no morals to compromise? Republicans aren't usually interested in having heterosexual affairs?

 

Both very good guesses and also very funny! 

 

But, the difference I see is that Republicans run on the fact that they are anti-abortion, and pro-marriage.  They flat out pander to a certain high moral segment of the population, even though they are usually the gayest, or the most falandering...

 

Democrats don't run on morality.  They run  on issues.  I'm not saying that democrats don't pander, all politicians do.  It's just that even when a democrat gets caught in some nasty thing, it's not something where you can say, "what a hypocrite".

 

The John Edwards issue, for instance.  Yeah, it was nasty...  But he wasn't running a family values campaign.  He was running a populace campaign focused on the fact that there "Are 2 Americas".  

 

On the flip side, a Republican will get caught trying to solicit a man in a bathroom while campaigning for the defense of marriage and how his faith drives him and his decisions, and blah blah blah...

 

So that's the difference...

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