Why Do So Many Republican Politicians Have Questionable Pasts?
Nebraska Rep. Lobs F-Bomb at D.C. Driver
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he has been engaged in an extramarital affair with an Argentinean woman.
McCain was stationed in Jacksonville. McCain has admitted to having extramarital affairs.
Randal David Ankeney is the Republican activist who was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault .
President of the United States George W. Bush, was accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later died in a questionable case of suicide
Mark Foley, Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages via an instant messenger program.
Rudy Giuliani, New York Mayor and Republican Presidential Candidate, is reported as having had an adulterous affair that failed to stay out of the public light.
Matthew Glavin arrested multiple times for public indecency
Lewis “Scooter” Libby (too terrible to mention here)
Rush Limbaugh He also takes questionable trips to locations where many western men travel to buy sex under shady circumstances.
Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee. He was divorced in April 2005 because of an affair he was having with an office aid.
Bill O’Reilly sued for sexual harassment by his producer
Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office.
Ed Schrock
Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Jean Schmidt
Jimmy Swaggart,
Randall Terry
Strom Thurmond
Jim West
Lynx on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 2:13 pm
Dr. Laura, Limbaugh and O’Reilly are NOT politicians. By the way, there are THOUSANDS of GOP politicans who are pretty up-and-up. But you decided to not mention them to prove a point. Omitting evidence – how low can you stoop?
Tubby on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 2:13 pm
It is not wise to argue morals with regard to Politicians, particularly those in Washington who maintain a secondary lifestyle in DC. Power and opportunity is corruptable, and it’s not limited to Republicans, celebrities, preachers or even Presidents.
Countess Jodhaa Bai on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 2:27 pm
They are hypocrites.
Jerry O on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 3:12 pm
Do a bit of research before casting stones, and you’ll see that the Dimmocraps live in glass houses. You just never read or hear about it in the “lamestream” media because they are merely the propaganda arm of the left.
Big Jon on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 3:54 pm
Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, NY Gov. Spitzer, Sen Rangel, Congressman Jefferson, Comptroller Hevisi Oh I forgot they are Democrats. They are all sleezebags.
sassy25 on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 3:54 pm
after jefferson, clinton, spitzer, patterson, blagojevich, richardson and several others, you feel comfortable asking this question? amazing!!!
60 min man on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 4:39 pm
We have not out numbered the democrats yet.Democrats need to clean up their own back yard before complaining about republicans.
mackie on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 5:07 pm
Are you attempting to insinuate that Democrats are immune to that?
If so, you failed.
Mr. Sarcasm on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 5:28 pm
Pointless question, just as many or more Dem politicians have “questionable” pasts as Republicans. Reaching a little aren’t you?
slim shady on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 5:42 pm
Maybe you haven’t heard but JFK and Marilyn Monroe were an item.
semper_p on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 6:11 pm
Is it cause or effect? I think it is cause – it requires a certain personality type to run for office.
John on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 6:13 pm
There are just as many Democrats with questionable pasts…yet you fail to mention them!
Scott on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 6:48 pm
William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater – Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate – Filegate – Vince Fostergate – Whitewater Billing Recordsgate – Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate – Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate – Lippogate – Chinagate – The Lewinsky Affair – Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate – Kathleen Willeygate – Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate – Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate – Jaunita Broaddrick Gate – Lootergate – Pardongate
Edward Moore Kennedy – Democrat – U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
Barney Frank – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.
DNC – The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.
Sandy Berger – Democrat – National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.
Robert Torricelli – Democrat – Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.
James McGreevey – Democrat – New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
Jesse Jackson – Democrat – Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.
Gary Condit – Democrat – US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..
Eliot Spitzer- Democrat – New York governor – resigned from office after being tied to a prostitution ring.
Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde – Democrat – the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.
Daniel David Rostenkowski – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison.
Melvin Jay Reynolds – Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.
Wayne Bryant – Democrat NJ state senator- was convicted was found guilty on all 12 counts against him including bribery and pension fraud.
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison.
George Rogers – Democrat – Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison.
Don Siegelman – Democrat Governor Alabama – indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.
John Murtha, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Otto Kerner – Democrat governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 was jailed after the manager of two horse-racing tracks admitted to bribing the then- governor; charges were filed after Kerner left office he was convicted in 1973.
Dan Walker – Democrat governor of Illinois from1973 to 1977 served less than two years of a seven-year sentence for receiving improper loans a decade after leaving office.
Gerry Eastman Studds – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page.
Hiram Monserrate- Queens City Councilman and state Senator-elect – who has claimed to be an advocate of victims of domestic violence – was arrested for breaking a glass over his girlfriend’s face. Monserrate, 41, a former cop, won election to the state Senate as a Democrat in November 2008.
James C. Green – Democrat – North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.
Frederick Richmond – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer – pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also – charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee – pleaded guilty.
Raymond Lederer – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.
Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.
Frank Thompson, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison
Michael Joseph Myers – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.
John Michael Murphy – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.
John Wilson Jenrette, Jr – Democrat – U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison
Neil Goldschmidt – Democrat – Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.
Alcee Lamar Hastings – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges.
Marion Barry – Democrat – mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.
Mario Biaggi – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.
Lee Alexander – Democrat – Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.
Bill Campbell – Democrat – Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.
Frank Ballance – Democrat – Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.
Hazel O’Leary – Democrat – Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration – O’leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.
Lafayette Thomas – Democrat – Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.
Mary Rose Oakar – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of
aCeRBic on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 7:03 pm
HMMMM…Clinton was impeached
Roboron on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 7:21 pm
OH Gawd! want a freaking list of the unfaithful dems? It goes both ways and it is called *human nature*!
susisays on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 8:08 pm
Gosh! You couldn’t mention one democrat with
questionable past could you? What is wrong, are you biased or are you just plain uninformed? John F. and Robert F. Kennedy were at each others throat all the time over the affection of Marilyn Monroe, she ended up dead…suicide they said? Really? Questionable!
I could go like you did, but what’s the use, everyone knows any way and I wanted
only to show you that poop stinks, no matter
who it is spread on!
jamesfen on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 8:59 pm
Because they are not smart enough to not get caught. I mean really, are you that naive to even remotely think or believe that some Democrats don’t have skeletons in their closets. They just haven’t been caught in the act.
There has been plenty of Democratic leaders that have done wrong in our history. Clinton being the most recent with his near impeachment. You can also point out that he also lied, and lied, and lied about the issues. Also keep in mind that Kennedy had some wrong doing along his way as well.
Just because you maybe a Democrat or a Republican does not mean that you are a saint. As far as I am concerned all of are politicians are corrupt to to some extent and they have all failed to represent the people to the best of their ability and what has been expected of them. It’s only been 6 months of the new president, so before we start to wave our hands triumph I’d wait a year or so.
Popeye42 on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 9:27 pm
Because you don’t get to the top without ******* somebody over. You do have a lot of GOP on your list. That is due a lot to the news media’s pick and choose method of stories the Democrats are just as bad. No telling how many people Clinton had wacked in the past. They do it because we let them get away with it, but what do I know I’m just an American born American bred citizen the kind that politicians could give two shits about which is pretty much all citizens of the United States because they are the keepers of the world apparently and we don’t ****** matter.
The Doctor on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 9:39 pm
Funny isn’t it…how they run on the we are pure theme and family values are a must as they hid behind the flag and their bibles preaching to all
By the way Rush not a politician just a loud mouth speaker for them…although he wants to be…but how can he when he wants us to fail….strange
Got to love it…they are hoping people will have short memories next elections…only we have sites full of information overload….easy to play dirty and all we have to do is remind a few….but looks like we will not need to…they are destroying themselves from within
Going on for eons….people are waking up and just how anyone can think they can get away with any bs in this day and age…just shows how much attention these guys pay to the real world
By the way….they must be Dem’s who are doing it…better watch out…the rethugs will dug into the dirt to find something…. just seems to be more one sided these days and worse for that party because of their core beliefs which are a farce anyway
Small…wee tiny gov…for a country of over 300 million…IS the reason why nothing got done, hiding everything, low and no taxes…fear of freedom on rights taken away amd of course family and , the guns and the bible…but go and bomb everyone because they can…lol
darcy m on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 9:47 pm
It is much tougher to set high standards and then live by them, then live by no standards at all.
The Dems have every bit the rap sheet (as acerbic has shown), but because the Dems do not promote traditional family and American values, they are not judged to be hypocrites when they fail to live up to them.
How can you be a hypocrite when the only standard you are judged by is “Do whatever feels good?”
Uncle Pennybags on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 10:19 pm
Then cover the 50% of Obama’s cabinet and appointees that were and probably still are tax evaders, Rangels tax evasion, Dodd & Franks real estate bribes and Dodd under estimating property value, Patrick Kennedy ion drug rehab, Ex-congressman Wm. Jefferson bribery, misuse of government property. Gee Little princess you miss these. I used “little” and I would bey on the accuracy. SORRY I missed “ACeRBic”‘s excellent.
lienot on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 10:53 pm
I am a strong democrat, but it’s not just republicans with shady pasts. It’s politicians in general.
EDIT*** Clinton was NOT impeached. If he would have been he would have been removed from office.