The party of family values - you betcha!

[Tele-Cat]

South Carolina Republican Caught With 18 Yr. Old Stripper, Sex Toys and Viagra In Cemetery | Video Cafe

Sex toys. Viagra. an 18-year-old stripper...and a republican, now FORMER state attorney general...IN A CEMETERY!!!!!!!

They appear to be mighty kinky, in South Carolina, one of the notches in the bible belt.

[Bill Moore]

Yeah, it seems like a former vice president nominee is also from the Carolinas!

[casey73]

Originally Posted by Tele-Cat

South Carolina Republican Caught With 18 Yr. Old Stripper, Sex Toys and Viagra In Cemetery | Video Cafe

Sex toys. Viagra. an 18-year-old stripper...and a republican, now FORMER state attorney general...IN A CEMETERY!!!!!!!

They appear to be mighty kinky, in South Carolina, one of the notches in the bible belt.

If he was a democrat, this wouldn't be news because he'd blend right in.

[Mark Hammer]

Cripes, you know you'd think that the prospect of guiding the welfare of a state, and attending to all the pertinent details, would be time-consuming and intriguing enough, that people wouldn't be setting aside time for that sort of nonsense.

[casey73]

You are right Mark Hammer, and I stand corrected. I gave into temptation. I can't compete with Tele-cats deep insights so I replied in haste with a counter insult. My bad.

[Diablo]

The only thing better than a conservative politician being outed for being a hypocritical sleaze-ball is a bible-thumping, holier than thou, family-values preacher getting caught in the back seat of a car with a hooker.

We wouldn't be laughing at these folks and holding them up to so much ridicule if they didn't make their careers telling other people how to live. If they knew anything, they would remember to "judge not, lest ye be judged".

[Tele-Cat]

The republican party seems the be the "hookers and blow" party the last 10 years or so.

[Bill Moore]

I did a search, and could not find any information of Mr Corning preaching to the rest of us, about the evils of taking hookers to graveyards for sex.
I do remember John Edwards speaking to the sanctity of marriage, and his great love of his wife.
It also seems the Rev. Jackson had a moral problem a few years back, paying off a woman he had a child with, with the money his "foundation" extorts from businesses.
I believe in the glass house rule, and if you're in the public light, someone will find your dirty laundry. I only wish all laundry aired at a height for all to see.

[Mark Hammer]

I think we can all agree that whatever one's political leanings, be they free-market, tree-hugging, bible-thumping, Koran-thumping, libertarian, eco-fascist, or whatever, if anyone wishes to get all preachy, they better damn well be up to practicing what they preach because at this time and place, if they don't, they will get found out, and it will be ugly when they do. People on every side/facet of the political spectrum are quickly losing trust in politics and the political process, and quite frankly NO NATION can prosper under those conditions, and no planet can be sustainable if nations start collapsing under their ethical weight left and right.

So kids, if you can not practice what you preach with any consistency, stay the hell away from political or public leadership, PLEASE.

[hasserl]

You mean like Al Gore preaching doom & gloom from anthropogenic global warming, yet he lives a lifestyle that results in 100 times the CO2 emmissions of the average person. That kind of not practicing what you preach?

[Bill Moore]

I was fortunate to have my "Granny",(mothers grandmother), around until I was in my early 20's. I lived with my grandparents for a while, and she would come visit for a month or so. One day a fellow came around asking her to vote for someone,"he's really an honest man". Granny said "O lordy, if he's an honest man, politics is the last place he should be". Unfortunately, I think sometimes that she's right.

[Mark Hammer]

Originally Posted by hasserl

You mean like Al Gore preaching doom & gloom from anthropogenic global warming, yet he lives a lifestyle that results in 100 times the CO2 emmissions of the average person. That kind of not practicing what you preach?

Um, I was trying to find common ground there for a brief moment, instead of being partisan. Do give it a try when you have the opportunity. It works like a charm.

Having said that, there are two broads types of mismatches between practiced and preached. There are those that preach suggested paths of behaviour and strive to practice what they preach, perhaps not to the extent that they aspire to. These are not hypocrites, merely sloppy idealists. Here, I think of my younger son who is all for conservation and environmental friendliness but somehow, at the tender age of 13, doesn't make the connection between that and leaving the computer on for hours even when he's not using it.

And then there are those who preach what they believe ought to be required of others, whilst reserving the right for themselves to step outside the bounds of those impositions. Once again, I think we can all agree that the second type irks us more than the first, regardless of political orientation.

[hasserl]

Mark, sorry for the partisan like comment, I really don't have a dog in this fight, as I don't belong to any political party. Just trying to balance things out, and to illustrate that hypocrites live on both sides of the aisle.

When you stop and analyze the situation what we really have is one big political party with differing degrees of depravity. We have the party of tax, spend and regulate; and the party of tax, spend and regulate light. Both sides are plenty willing to engage their political powers to enforce their own personal agenda or that of their special interests. And that seems to be true in all western countries.

The political spectrum has drifted amazingly to the left. What today is considered far right radicalism would have been considered liberal just a few short decades ago. In his day Hubert Humphery was called a flaming liberal, yet if you listen to the speeches he gave when campaigning for president, if he was a politician today he'd be to the right of Newt Gingrich. John F Kennedy would be a conservative Republican if he were a modern politician.

And we never learn from the past. As bad as socialism is, we keep drifting that way. As bad as repression is we keep willingly moving right along towards it more and more all the time. We've all but abandoned the ideal of individual liberty and freedom, and embraced regulation and control. We've traded individual responsibility for reliance on government handouts. And the guys above just want to argue about partisan politics, all the while having their freedoms taken away from them. Like a frog in a pot of water being slowly heated up, by the time they realize what's happening we'll all be frog soup.