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Johnny does Whatshername (Sen. Ensign has an affair. Blackmail involved)
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23813.html
Oh snap!
Just watched the video of him admitting it is the now standard prop-wife (her name is Darlene, and I don't know why I find that funny).
So, I know jack shit about Nevada, and want someone to give me the breakdown on how it might play out. It seems that he has plenty of time to work this out before the next election.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) acknowledged Tuesday that he had “violated the vows†of marriage by having an affair with a campaign staffer.
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Some time later, a Nevada source said, Ensign met with the husband of the woman involved and had what this source described as a positive encounter. Sources said that the man subsequently asked Ensign for a substantial sum of money — at which point Ensign decided to make the affair public.
Ensign did not provide specifics about the affair Tuesday, nor did he identify the woman involved, except to say that she and her husband “were close friends, and both of them worked for me.â€
Oh snap!
Just watched the video of him admitting it is the now standard prop-wife (her name is Darlene, and I don't know why I find that funny).
Top that, Onion News.A born-again Christian, Ensign has been a member of the Promise Keepers, a male evangelical group that promotes marital fidelity.
So, I know jack shit about Nevada, and want someone to give me the breakdown on how it might play out. It seems that he has plenty of time to work this out before the next election.
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I'm guessing I should stock up on condoms before I leave.
Way better than Sigmund.
I don't know, Sigmund could be a damn entertaining fellow when he was hopped up on coke.
As for Sen. Ensign, considering he comes from a state with legalized prostitution and the largest center of gambling in the United States, I doubt it'll harm his image with the voting public there too much.
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I think the only thing that he really needed to say was "We were on a break."
Also moniker: to reinforce that, have you ever heard this story?
Voters can forgive a lot of sins, but the one that always tends to stick is hypocrisy. If he wasn't part of that Promise Keepers thing I'd say you'd probably be right, but this might stick now because of it. Of course, he isn't up next, Reid is, so by the time his seat rolls around it might be too old to drag up.
There are endless cavalcades of sex between politicians and staffers/interns/pages. It seems like DC is, as a city, simultaneously sexually repressed and extremely kinky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_Keepers
Oh, I see. Love the subtitle on the logo.
Hell, I think that's the point of that last one.
It's like these people are addicted to hypocrisy.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
That was 11 years ago. You can't call someone a hypocrite because their life views changed in 11 years.
If Detharin is right, he'll probably get away scot-free. As he should, if Deth is right.
Who gives a shit?
This is assuming that his life view changed, which is unlikely.
Separated people are legally married. FYI.
Oh I know, that's what I mean.
It's not cheating if they're separated. That's what I meant.
Now were they legally separated, or "we need to take a break"?
Legally separated people can go back to being non-separated without doing anything specific. All they need to do is agree that they're back together.
So it's only hypocrisy if you're advocating against an action while you are actually doing it? Because I think you'd be amazed at the number of people who suddenly had an enlightened change of heart about something just moments before they got caught.
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What the?
Guy bashes the president for having an affair with an intern. Don't see anything bad about that, pretty much the entire world bashed him.
Guy that is separated from his wife/taking a break from his wife meets woman, sparks fly, he sleeps with her. Don't see anything wrong with that, either.
If he's a hypocrite for anything, it's this:
Personally I don't care who he puts his dick into, but apparently he thinks (or thought) that I should. And people shouldn't be held to an arbitrary standard, they should be held to their own. His standard is that public officials should not be having extramarital affairs with members of their staff. He then went and had an extramarital affair with a member of his staff. Now, if you have any evidence that he did publicly change his mind at any point between Lewinsky and last week that's one thing. If he only had a change of heart once he's the one that got caught it's quite another.
That just doubles the fun.
Oh double entendre, you can be so much fun.
Therein lies our problem. I don't think the president, who's supposed to be a role-model for hundreds of millions of people, and a senator, are on par.
What the president does impacts everything from public trust in the government to foreign affairs (at the very least least with religious zealot nutjob-led countries).
It's not the same thing if Clinton does it or some senator does it in my book, but apparently it is in yours. We'll just have to agree to disagree. And I don't think he ever mentioned that public officials shouldn't be having extramarital affairs, I think it was just a pet peeve about what Clinton did.
Sure, it's a double-standard (President does it, it's bad; senator does it, no biggie), but it doesn't make him a hypocrite in my book. The fact that he more than likely won't step down, though, does.
Couple that with the fact that we don't know if they were legally separated or not, and we have too many variables for anyone to be able to say anything conclusive about it lest they know the senator.
Public Official #1 commits Act X.
Public Official #1 is a hypocrite.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Are you blind, or just suffering from acute selective readism? Limed for you.
Reading comprehension, not everyone has it.
He has run on a "family values" plank. He's a hypocrite, its obvious and its a story that comes out more than once a year.
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Another sufferer of ASR. I never said he's not a hypocrite, I said he's not a hypocrite for bashing Clinton during the Lewinski scandal.
I'm going to get myself an ASR awareness bracelet now.
And I'm saying you're wrong, Zed. Our arguments hold just about as much water. You think that who Tim the gardener sleeps with has the potential to shape international policy-making, I don't.
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Sure. Unless the guy is a dickweed who's trying to blackmail a US senator, after he was all chummy with him after said senator slept with dickweed's wife.
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You'll excuse me if I find that silly on multiple fronts.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Errm, what? So the senator's thought process was "This guy seems like a dickweed who will try to blackmail people; I'll screw his wife, that'll show him!"?