Please, not another four years of sex scandals! (Kerry)

[ecstatic]

I still respect and admire Bill Clinton, but the four years of Monica-Lewinsky-this and Gennifer-Flowers-that really took its toll on me. The sex lives of politicians is absolutely none of my business, but unfortunately, the Republicans will use this issue and it will dominate the news and drown out other, more important, issues. We have to put a stop to this now. Americans will NOT vote for a guaranteed four-year long sex scandal.

[Dookus]

1. oh mah...

I DO declare!

All this talk of sex is givin' me the vapors! *swoon*

[robsul82]

8. HAHAHAHAHAHA...

"All this talk of intelligence problems is giving me the vapors!"

Later.

RJS

[Jacobin]

37. Yer crackin me up!!

STOP THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

[mitchum]

40. LOL!

[wuushew]

2. I was under the impression that we gained seats in 1998

If regaining congress is the true goal then perhaps, the POTUS should take one for the team(even if the charges are false)

[ecstatic]

20. I hate cheating men, but I don't care about what married couples do

However, I simply do not want to hear the corporate media talking about Kerry's private parts for the next four years. I simply can't stomach it.

Plus, all Bush has to say is, if Kerry's own wife can't trust him, then how can the American people trust him?

[stepnw1f]

3. No, but you won't

[quinnox]

4. What is so wrong with sex scandal??

The American people loved Bill Clinton!! And they still do.

More sex scandals!

[Cheswick2.0]

41. John Kerry is no Bill Clinton

If the story is true (doubtful at this point)the american people will not extend a candidate the same loyalty they did a sitting President.

[ozone_man]

46. This is true.

We have time to turn back from this disaster. Clinton gave the Republicans family values as an issue and gave Democrats a bad name. Personally, I prefer that a person's private like be just that, but things have changed since womanizers like the first JFK.

If this is true, I don't think people are going to want to see another 4 years of this stuff.

[stickdog]

47. The fact that we WON'T get four years of them.

Kerry's popularity is paper thin and biography based.

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. Better than eight years of war scandals.

:eyes:

[Fleshdancer]

24. is this our option? War Scandal vs. Sex Scandal???

is it too much to ask to not get either for at least 4 years?

[ecstatic]

28. bingo!

This ruins Kerry's so called "electability."

Game over. Now either Dean or Edwards must step up to the plate.

[Fleshdancer]

33. I'm just so damn tired at this point. This primary is one big headache

*sigh*

If Edwards takes the lead, then it will officially become the primary of musical chairs. The media controls the record player...and I'm tired playing games.

[tobius]

35. media controls candidates actions? n/t

[Fleshdancer]

36. no, I didn't mean their actions....

but who's perceived as the current front runner.

[VolcanoJen]

44. I'm with GloriaSmith.

Cake or Death, Sir?

Why, is there any cake left? I'll take cake, thank you!!!

- Eddie Izzard

I really don't have the guts, gumption or stomach for another sex scandal. If this thing hits the mainstream media, and if Kerry doesn't come out swinging in denial, then I want a new frontrunner.

There are too many life-and-death issues ahead of us, than to be distracted off the best message we've had in years by stupid sex stuff that the American electorate will lap up with a spoon.

I don't know if it's true... but if it hits the mainstream media, I'll trust Kerry's denial, and nothing else.

:mad:

[JVS]

We're going to get war scandals no matter what

Thanks collaborationist leaders!

[boobooday]

6. They hate us cause we're sexy

And they're horribly repressed. That's why they're so violent.

We should laugh at them when they get all prissy (they're all hypocrites, anyway).

Jeanette
http://www.wgoeshome.com

[calimary]

15. Well, NOBODY ever asks for a piece of elephant.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

42. tusk, tusk

[MrSlayer]

7. Is he that much of a horndog...

To get four years worth of scandals out of him? Will he continue to do it? Is this a pattern of behavior or a one time thing? Did this even happen?

[janx]

14. I've never heard the term HORNDOG before!

That's a new one to me.

[robsul82]

18. Never heard horndog before?

Shiat, I've said that since fifth grade, lol, and I'm 19.

Later.

RJS

[janx]

26. No, I haven't, and I'm old enough to be your mother...

!

It's a great word though.

[robsul82]

27. Aye, it is.

Especially when talking about hottie MILFs. :)

Later.

RJS

[Edge]

9. My dad told me he was single when all this was going on...

why on Earth should it be an issue??????

[janx]

11. Was he single from the spring of 2001 to the spring of 2003?

?

[Edge]

16. Uh...is that when it supposedly happened?

[janx]

21. Yes.

.

[ant]

17. was he?

There seem to be two stories out there. One is about Kerry and this woman he dated while he was single, but this Drudge story appears to be about something recent. :shrug:

I'm interested to see what Time is actually going to report next week, if anything. (If it were nothing I'd like to think they would've released something saying, "Drudge is full of shit and we're not covering anything like this next week.")

[ant]

10. some humor

First off, let me just say that Americans might very well vote for four more years of sex scandals if it comes with Clinton's peace and prosperity. Bush is a disaster, let's remember, and the scandals are hitting him hard as well. This time the public is faced with scandals of the Bush variety (unecessary war, intelligence leaks, AWOL, etc.) or those of the Clinton variety (an affair).

On to the humor: Wonkette

My favorites:

Drudge clarifies: "The woman fled to Africa." OK, that sounds more plausible. (But still, she slept with Kerry? Really?)

From Slate: "Ten ways to rationalize the publication of infidelity rumors." No. 11: "You could write an article about the media attempts to rationalize it."

I don't think this is going to turn into much, but who knows. At this point I'm not really worried about this hurting Kerry. (And for the record, I'm a Dean supporter.)

[oasis]

12. A sex scandal is not the end of the world. Would Joe Scarborough dare

give a report on it?

[JVS]

22. Not the end of the world, but the end of Kerry being electable

[YouMustBeKiddingMe]

13. There is not going to be 4 years of sex scandals

I give this story a couple days, a week max, and it will be over.

[robsul82]

19. I bless the interns down in Aaaaaaaaaaaaaafrica...

Hahahahahaha...

Later.

RJS

[WillyT]

34. That Was Toto...ly Hilarious !!!

:hi::evilgrin::hi:

[Monument]

23. too early to tell....

...but I dare say that the voting public is probably NOT interested at all in another 4 years of hearing about sex scandals! As the saying goes, where there's smoke there's fire. Well I hear that Gore didn't give Kerry the VP nod back in 99 due to alleged improprieties. Is this a pattern?


For now it seems very unlikely to me anyway that this happened. I think that if it DID happen, it WILL play a big role in the minds of the public.

[sadiesworld]

25. It's the consenual sex that bothers them

The Gropenator and "what's-that-dead-aide-doing-in-my-office-Scarborough" that get a free pass.

[roguevalley]

29. I know what you mean about not wanting to hear it. After all the crap with

Clinton, god bless his elvis heart!, people are worn down.
As I see it, it rather speaks to judgment and character.

I know. Who cares? Some do. A lot of people do.

What kind of brain do you have to do to have an affair -if
true and I saw it on the front of the National Enquirer just
now at the store, and their track record is pretty damned
good- before running for the most open job in the galaxy?
What kind of soul must you have to know that you did what
you did -if true- knowing full well the pirhanas will eat
your liver?

And what kind of person must you be to go on TV with your
wife and act like she's only ever the one when you knew you
were doing wrong with another?

Kerry better prove its not true. I am DAMNED tired of
arrogant politicians who think they can hide their lack
of decency while claiming it for others.

[JVS]

31. Sex with subordinates is not ethically clean.

[Cheswick2.0]

43. No, I think it's the cheating on your wife that bothers them

that doesn't resignate (as bush would say) with the voters.

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[HawkerHurricane]

32. What bothers me most about this...

Is the large number of Non-Kerry supporters that sound like they WANT it to be true so THIER candidate can be nominated...

Yes, it could be bad... we all remember how Genifer Flowers shot down Governor Clinton's candidacy back in 1992...

[ecstatic]

39. I don't want this to be true

But the slightest bit of impropriety will give Repubs four years worth of venom and ammunition. We need someone clean and wholesome.

[HawkerHurricane]

52. Clean and wholesome?

Someone, like, say, Bush?

[Cheswick2.0]

45. sorry Hawker, that just isn't fair

sure I don't want Kerry to get the nomination. But don't blame me if it turns out he couldn't keep his penis to himself.
Amoung all the things I dislike about Kerry is what I see as his lack of character. If he has been cheating on his wife when he knew he was about to run for President... well then that is one more reason for me to hope he disapears into retirement. I don't think the average person is going to feel any loyalty to kerry the way they did with Clinton. I just don't think people have the stomach to go through another 8 years of bimbo erruptions.

[HawkerHurricane]

53. Blame? No blame...

Just annoyed that some people sound PLEASED that our current front runner MIGHT have a problem.

I am not a Kerry supporter. But I'll give him this: he has a record of being a liberal. Yes, he's made mistakes with the Patriot Act and War vote... But let's look at Dean's record on the same subjects: How did he vote on them?

Yes, I know, he didn't vote for them. He didn't vote against them. He wasn't in office at the time. The perfect cover: he doesn't have to give his opinion on a subject until after we see the mistakes. Hindsight is 20/20.

[stickdog]

48. And how do we remember this ....

in retrospect?

Heiney sight is 20/20, don't you know.

[tobius]

49. his team denied the truth and smeared her-

good or bad advice if this is substantiated by recordings?

[janx]

50. Hawker, I'm sorry, but this is exactly the kind of thing some of us knew

would happen with Kerry.

TOO MUCH BAGGAGE.

It blows my mind that the DLC leaders could be so blinded.

[HawkerHurricane]

54. Would you be so quick to believe

If it were a rumor about Dean?

[quaker bill]

51. Yes I do recall it stopping him, if not for Perot

I do recall how Clinton would have lost to George H.W. Bush were it not for Ross Perot taking 19 percent of the vote. By over 2:1 this 19 percent came out of the Bush column.

Clinton only got 43 percent of the vote. Remove Perot from the equation and it would have ended up Bush 51-52 to Clinton 49-48.

[HawkerHurricane]

55. I remember it differently

How Perot took his votes almost evenly from both candidates, and cost Clinton a clear majority (something the Repubs would throw in my face from 1992 to 1996).

[mitchum]

38. Your concern is touching

I don't let negligible bullshit bother me, why should you?

Kerry 2004