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  • Why do Republicans have so many sex scandals?

    Bill O'Reilly's latest sex scandals have rounded out the sexual-assaulter Republican trifecta of Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, and Bill O'Reilly.

    And the Republican governor of Alabama resigned today due to (using illegal measures to cover up) a sex scandal.

    Amusingly there is a wikipedia list of federal political sex scandals in the US. Since 2000, there have been 12 Republican scandals and 6 Democrat ones. In the 90s there were 11 Republican scandals and 6 Democrat ones.

    Seriously what is it with Republicans and sex scandals? Is there something in the water that makes Republicans particularly prone to adultery? Does all the "family values" talk set them off? Or is it that evangelical Christians are more prone it to due to the sexually repressive teachings being the equivalent of "don't think of an elephant" and all they can do all day is think about the potential affair and what a big temptation it is for them?

    In the case of Trump, Ailes and O'Reilly, I think it's just that they are really stupid people and don't understand the correct social behaviors when it comes to hitting on women appropriately. Somebody needs to sit them down and have a version of 'the talk' with them, but where it is explained what it is appropriate versus inappropriate to do when flirting with a woman.
    "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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    I viewing this as a Republican vs. Democrat issue is a sign of mental illness.
    Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
      I viewing this as a Republican vs. Democrat issue is a sign of mental illness.
      Your dubious grammar makes it sound like you're saying you have the mental illness.

      Republicans are typically:
      - Likely to be openly and vocally Christian (80% of the White Evangelical demographic voted Republican in the last election, and that is fairly typical).
      - Vocal about "Family Values".
      - Vocal about the important of marriage (and that because it's so important, gay people can't have it).

      Democrats, by contrast, do not tend to try and run their religion, or rub their holier-than-thou moral values on the topic of marriage, in other people's faces.

      So it's interesting that Republicans appear to have sex scandals twice as often as Democrats do. Why? Does Evangelical Christianity cause anti-sanctification to occur? Does talking about marriage and family values too much make people more tempted to have affairs?

      In my own country the most recent attempt at a Christian party ("Conservatives") recently fell apart completely after its leader had a sex scandal. The previous Christian party here ("Christian Heritage") also fell apart after its leader was jailed for pedophilia. We don't have many sex scandals in politics here (~4 in my lifetime I think)... so 2/2 conservative Christian party leaders going down for sex scandals is remarkable. So it's not just the US that appears to have a higher rate of sex scandals among the conservative Christians in politics.
      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
        Bill O'Reilly's latest sex scandals have rounded out the sexual-assaulter Republican trifecta of Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, and Bill O'Reilly.
        Because Republican men are more virile, aggressive and manly than limp noodle, navel gazing Democrats?
        Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          Your dubious grammar makes it sound like you're saying you have the mental illness.

          Republicans are typically:
          - Likely to be openly and vocally Christian (80% of the White Evangelical demographic voted Republican in the last election, and that is fairly typical).
          - Vocal about "Family Values".
          - Vocal about the important of marriage (and that because it's so important, gay people can't have it).

          Democrats, by contrast, do not tend to try and run their religion, or rub their holier-than-thou moral values on the topic of marriage, in other people's faces.

          So it's interesting that Republicans appear to have sex scandals twice as often as Democrats do. Why? Does Evangelical Christianity cause anti-sanctification to occur? Does talking about marriage and family values too much make people more tempted to have affairs?

          In my own country the most recent attempt at a Christian party ("Conservatives") recently fell apart completely after its leader had a sex scandal. The previous Christian party here ("Christian Heritage") also fell apart after its leader was jailed for pedophilia. We don't have many sex scandals in politics here (~4 in my lifetime I think)... so 2/2 conservative Christian party leaders going down for sex scandals is remarkable. So it's not just the US that appears to have a higher rate of sex scandals among the conservative Christians in politics.
          I think evaluating people's actions vs. their words is a good place to start. Keep doing that.
          Did politicians lying about their allegiances to get votes really catch you off guard?
          Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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          • #6
            Originally posted by seer View Post
            Because Republican men are more virile, aggressive and manly than limp noodle, navel gazing Democrats?
            Translate: Lock up your daughters, and put a GPS tracking device on your wife when the Republican conventions, the Circus and Carnavals, patent medicine wagons, and political rallies come to town
            Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
            Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
            But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

            go with the flow the river knows . . .

            Frank

            I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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            • #7
              "Why do Republicans have so many sex scandals?"

              That's easy: Because it's only considered a "scandal" when it involves a Republican.
              Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
              But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
              Than a fool in the eyes of God


              From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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              • #8
                Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                Translate: Lock up your daughters, and put a GPS tracking device on your wife when the Republican conventions, the Circus and Carnavals, patent medicine wagons, and political rallies come to town
                Yes, like with The Kennedy men!
                Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Democrats, by contrast, do not tend to try and run their religion, or rub their holier-than-thou moral values on the topic of marriage, in other people's faces.
                  That's news to me.
                  When I Survey....

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                  • #10
                    Sure enough, he was a morally outraged NeverTrumper:

                    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...l-former-aide/

                    Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he could no longer vote for Donald Trump in wake of the GOP presidential nominee’s sexually charged words about women.

                    Bentley comments came as state Alabama U.S. Reps. Martha Roby and Bradley Byrne, on Saturday called for Trump to step aside from the GOP ticket. Trump is under fire for his remarks about him groping women in a 2005 recording.

                    Roby was one of the first Republicans to speak out against Trump on Saturday, leading what would soon be a chorus of voices against the GOP nominee.

                    “Now, it is abundantly clear that the best thing for our country and our party is for Trump to step aside and allow a responsible, respectable Republican to lead the ticket,” Roby said in a statement. “Hillary Clinton must not be president, but, with Trump leading the ticket she will be.”

                    Governor Bentley is expected to resign today after audio was uncovered of Governor Bentley describing how he embraced and placed his hands on an aide’s breasts.
                    "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                    There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      Bill O'Reilly's latest sex scandals have rounded out the sexual-assaulter Republican trifecta of Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, and Bill O'Reilly.

                      And the Republican governor of Alabama resigned today due to (using illegal measures to cover up) a sex scandal.

                      Amusingly there is a wikipedia list of federal political sex scandals in the US. Since 2000, there have been 12 Republican scandals and 6 Democrat ones. In the 90s there were 11 Republican scandals and 6 Democrat ones.

                      Seriously what is it with Republicans and sex scandals? Is there something in the water that makes Republicans particularly prone to adultery? Does all the "family values" talk set them off? Or is it that evangelical Christians are more prone it to due to the sexually repressive teachings being the equivalent of "don't think of an elephant" and all they can do all day is think about the potential affair and what a big temptation it is for them?

                      In the case of Trump, Ailes and O'Reilly, I think it's just that they are really stupid people and don't understand the correct social behaviors when it comes to hitting on women appropriately. Somebody needs to sit them down and have a version of 'the talk' with them, but where it is explained what it is appropriate versus inappropriate to do when flirting with a woman.
                      Chuckle...

                      http://www.ranker.com/list/democrat-...ls/web-infoguy

                      No matter what time of year it is, (be it an American election or otherwise) political sex scandals span both the Democratic and Republican parties. From Political Johns to lowly adulterers, the two are pretty even in terms of sex scandals since 1976. Democrats have edged ahead in recent years though!
                      That's what
                      - She

                      Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                      - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                      I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                        Chuckle...

                        http://www.ranker.com/list/democrat-...ls/web-infoguy

                        No matter what time of year it is, (be it an American election or otherwise) political sex scandals span both the Democratic and Republican parties. From Political Johns to lowly adulterers, the two are pretty even in terms of sex scandals since 1976. Democrats have edged ahead in recent years though!
                        "But- but according to Wikipedia...!"

                        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                        Than a fool in the eyes of God


                        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                        • #13
                          I think there are plenty of sex scandals on both sides of the isle, and both in politicians and reporters/celebrities.

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                          • #14
                            For the record I've not been involved in a sex scandal as of yet.
                            Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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                            • #15
                              So, why are some idiots incapable of keeping it in their pants?
                              If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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