Republicans and Whores

by **Meoton** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:40 am

GOP'ers that espouse family values, demonize homosexuals, and rail against liberals in Hollywood keep getting caught with people that are not their spouse in compromising situations.
What to do we do with them?

by **Post-Unity Terra** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:45 am

Meoton wrote:GOP'ers that espouse family values, demonize homosexuals, and rail against liberals in Hollywood keep getting caught with people that are not their spouse in compromising situations.
What to do we do with them?

Constantly remind them of their scandals. Nothing else.

by **Call to power** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:46 am

learn their secrets?

by **RightWingChristians** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:47 am

Throw their religion back at them.

by **Call to power** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:50 am

RightWingChristians wrote:Throw their religion back at them.

I agree when was the last time a Scientology had an affair?

by **Pope Joan** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:57 am

Those damned Republicans are stealing the Dems rep for fast living!

Quick, somebody call Bill Clinton; the balance must be restored!

by **Duetopia** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:57 am

Meoton wrote:GOP'ers that espouse family values, demonize homosexuals, and rail against liberals in Hollywood keep getting caught with people that are not their spouse in compromising situations.
What to do we do with them?

The same thing you do with christians who are not christ-like. I am an atheist, but I can understand the idea of a personal failing. I can understand how someone can have ideals and not live up to their own ideals by being too weak. But not living up to one's constructive values is not quite the same thing as having values which are destructive.

For example, I try to eat right. But sometimes, I still find myself eating junk. That's not quite the same as someone who eats junk all the time.

by **Muravyets** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:14 am

Meoton wrote:GOP'ers that espouse family values, demonize homosexuals, and rail against liberals in Hollywood keep getting caught with people that are not their spouse in compromising situations.
What to do we do with them?

First, laugh.

Second, hold them up as an object lesson on the weaknesses of hypocrites for the young kids coming up.

by **Buffett and Colbert** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:31 am

I'd laugh. Hard. Like, REALLY REALLY hard.

Then I'd use it as a trump card for many, many situations....

by **Genital Confusions** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:33 am

There really aren't enough castrations in the world.

by **Duetopia** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:33 am

Buffett and Colbert wrote:I'd laugh. Hard. Like, REALLY REALLY hard.

Then I'd use it as a trump card for many, many situations....

I don't think you'd trump with it. Gingrich left his position because he was caught having sex with his secretary. And it never detracted with his standing with the moderates or Republicans. His standing with the Democrats was never an issue. Reagan was DIVORCED AND REMARRIED. And yet he was overwhelmingly elected as a Republican. If anything, this might make a Republican more popular with Democrats.

by **Ifreann** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:34 am

Vote for someone else.

by **Post-Unity Terra** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:35 am

Duetopia wrote:
Meoton wrote:GOP'ers that espouse family values, demonize homosexuals, and rail against liberals in Hollywood keep getting caught with people that are not their spouse in compromising situations.
What to do we do with them?

The same thing you do with christians who are not christ-like. I am an atheist, but I can understand the idea of a personal failing. I can understand how someone can have ideals and not live up to their own ideals by being too weak. But not living up to one's constructive values is not quite the same thing as having values which are destructive.

For example, I try to eat right. But sometimes, I still find myself eating junk. That's not quite the same as someone who eats junk all the time.

There's probably a difference between having a big mac and doing meth off a rent boy's ass.

by **Buffett and Colbert** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:36 am

Duetopia wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:I'd laugh. Hard. Like, REALLY REALLY hard.

Then I'd use it as a trump card for many, many situations....

I don't think you'd trump with it. Gingrich left his position because he was caught having sex with his secretary. And it never detracted with his standing with the moderates or Republicans. His standing with the Democrats was never an issue. Reagan was DIVORCED AND REMARRIED. And yet he overwhelmingly elected as a Republican. If anything, this might make a Republican more popular with Democrats.

Well not ALL situations, naturally. Just when Republicans rant on about core values and such. Honestly, do you think a reply to "Government run health care is evil" should be "You fucked an Argentinian"?

by **Duetopia** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:40 am

Post-Unity Terra wrote:
Duetopia wrote:
Meoton wrote:GOP'ers that espouse family values, demonize homosexuals, and rail against liberals in Hollywood keep getting caught with people that are not their spouse in compromising situations.
What to do we do with them?

The same thing you do with christians who are not christ-like. I am an atheist, but I can understand the idea of a personal failing. I can understand how someone can have ideals and not live up to their own ideals by being too weak. But not living up to one's constructive values is not quite the same thing as having values which are destructive.

For example, I try to eat right. But sometimes, I still find myself eating junk. That's not quite the same as someone who eats junk all the time.

There's probably a difference between having a big mac and doing meth off a rent boy's ass.

Both are failures to live up to one's own ideals. It's just a matter of degree. I actually have no problem with hypocrites. If people want to set impossible moral standards for themselves, it's their business. I have a problem with them trying to set any moral standards for anyone else, but getting caught violating those moral standards simply doesn't change anything. It doesn't prove or disprove the fact that setting moral standards for others is idiotic. It's just unrelated.

by **Duetopia** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:42 am

Buffett and Colbert wrote:
Duetopia wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:I'd laugh. Hard. Like, REALLY REALLY hard.

Then I'd use it as a trump card for many, many situations....

I don't think you'd trump with it. Gingrich left his position because he was caught having sex with his secretary. And it never detracted with his standing with the moderates or Republicans. His standing with the Democrats was never an issue. Reagan was DIVORCED AND REMARRIED. And yet he overwhelmingly elected as a Republican. If anything, this might make a Republican more popular with Democrats.

Well not ALL situations, naturally. Just when Republicans rant on about core values and such. Honestly, do you think a reply to "Government run health care is evil" should be "You fucked an Argentinian"?

If I heard that exchange, I would assume that whoever said "you fucked an Argentinian" agreed with the statement "Government run health care is evil", but didn't like that statement for emotional reasons and decided to go ad hominem. But that's just me. When I hear ad hominem arguments, I assume all other arguments have been exhausted.

by **BowlsofCream** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:45 am

You castrate them, then no more affairs, duh.

by **Ashmoria** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:20 am

try to leave their private life out of it and only rub it in their faces when they go after someone else for the same thing.

by **Tunizcha** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:16 am

What the hell is it with all the Republicans getting ass? C'mon Democrats, you need to kick your game up.

by **BowlsofCream** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:19 am

Is being a swinger mean you lack family values? People just don't know how to have fun.

"Skallvia" · by **Maurepas** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:28 am

Boats and Hoes,

by **Hayteria** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:33 am

Ashmoria wrote:try to leave their private life out of it and only rub it in their faces when they go after someone else for the same thing.

This. It's one thing to be a public figure with a questionable private life, another to be a hypocrite about it.

Though for what it's worth, it does seem somewhat one-sided for Meoton to single out Republicans for this. What about Elliot Spitzer, a Democrat who supposedly had a reputation for being tough on crime until he was caught at it himself? This subject should be more about the hypocrisy of self-riteous politicians caught at immoral things, regardless of political affiliation. (Especially when the political affiliations being referred to are specifically those within the US, a country many people on this forum, including myself, don't even live in.)

by **Colonic Immigration** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:35 am

by **Vault 10** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:40 am

Duetopia wrote:The same thing you do with christians who are not christ-like. I am an atheist, but I can understand the idea of a personal failing. I can understand how someone can have ideals and not live up to their own ideals by being too weak. But not living up to one's constructive values is not quite the same thing as having values which are destructive.

^This. +1.

Post-Unity Terra wrote:There's probably a difference between having a big mac and doing meth off a rent boy's ass.

Just as there is a difference between trying to eat right and upholding the family values. A difference of scale, that's all. Both are travesties to their respective ideals.

by **Hayteria** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:43 am

EDIT: Never mind

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