What happened to Family Values and Conservatism???
Why is it that republican and religious and secular conservatives continue make family values an election issue. The issue of family values and morality was ONE of the hallmark reasons for the Republican take-over of congress and it was also used as a theme during Bush’s first run for office.
Read the list of “hypocrites” below and respond whether or not you think that family values was/is a “SMOKE SCREEN” to win favor and votes
POPULAR SCANDALS
1.Senator Larry Craig, recently pleaded guilty to lued homosexual acts in an Airport. He still defiantly claims that he is not gay.
2.Mark Foley, had phone sex and indecent conversations with male pages.
3.George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later committed suicide. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999
4.Senator David Vitter (R-La) who ran a hard-core platform on traditional family values, name was found on a Madams list. He told his constituents that it was a “private issue” and to leave him alone.
5.Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.
6.Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. 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. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."
7.John E. Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."
8.Henry Hyde, Judge who oversaw Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were divorced.
9.Newt Gingrich, married three times. Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments
10.Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison
Conservative Personalities and Figure Scandals
1.Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Paid 5,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a gay affair.
2.Ted Haggard, popular conservative pastor who advised Bush on Family Values issues was outed by a male prostitute who also alleged that he gave Haggard drugs.
3.Rush Limbaugh, triple-divorcee
4.Bill O’Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harassment by his producer.
5.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.
There are many, many, many more. I know that I am going to be accused of being repub-coserv-basher. I am not, I know the democrats have just as many scandals if not more. However, I think that the whole PLATFORM OF CONSERVATIVE FAMILY VALUES IS A DISINGENIOUS strategy to rally votes and to swing elections. THIS LIST DEMONSTRATES THE FACT THAT NO ONE PRACTICES WHAT THEY PREACH!!!
I also believe that we are all human and everyone makes mistakes, but it is VERY HYPOCRITICAL to impose ideas that these “cultural-icons” don’t keep!
(((What are your thoughts???)))))))
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The Connie’s Family Values are shared by a larger family than any one thought.
Hypocrisy is a legitimate political philosophy.
You, my friend, hit the nail on the head. It was a smoke screen. A political ploy. I will give you a bit of information that I just heard on a news channel. Over the last decade,
Republican sex scandals outnumber Democrat sex scandals by 50%. That’s half more Republican sex scandals than Democrat ones. And they claim to be the moral majority. That tidbit included, Presidents, Congressmen and Governors.
Nothing, they are alive and well. There are exceptions to every rule, which means there are probably some smart Democrats out there. I know it’s hard to believe but there are probably some.
Hello,, this is so widespread throughout this country that the lies injected into the system have become the truth of tomorrow. There is no such political agenda concerning the future of America,only the search for foreign soil to suck up the blood of our children. I truly have a pain in my heart caused by the New World Order of political gains. The response to Americans cry from the streets, asking for their country that has taken the taxes to be use against them in the name of democracy,,",it’ll get better ". Only when the dust is settled from the flash of foreign bombs waiting to end overpopulation of political lying scum.God help the people of America who have no truthful hero’s to vote into the leadership positions that have been plagued by these notorious bandits. I believe the only way out of this mess is,,an American reaction similar to the militants in the countries we are trying to pound our beliefs into. Cries of history,The British are coming!,,Remember the Alamo! Get the Bush / Cheney regime out of office now! Treat them as they will treat you. Turn your backs as they swing from the gallows pole.
all the self-rightous righties forgot about things like family values because they were all so busy cheating on their wives, having sex with prostitutes, gay sex with pages, and soliciting sex in mens bathrooms.
Maybe deep inside they want to be good. But the Devil has got them.
Over the course of history they tried many things to make people behave. Remember Adam and Eve.
But we all have our shot at it.
But really, think about it, it’s hard to stay clean in dirty water.
its better to acknowledge the values and fall short then to deny they exist.
Jerry Falwell and the moral majority. Bumper-sticker that read,
The Moral Majority is Neither.
I tend to believe the bumper-sticker more than Falwell.
It’s the republicans that want to legislate morals, not democrats and then the same thing happens over and over.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive. Get off the frigging high horse, it doesn’t suit the GOP sitting up there and only makes yourself a target.