I recall though that the Larry Craig news usually began with “Republican Senator Larry Craig…” and then jumped to the slimely stuff of whether a double-double shoe tap meant fisting safe or just frottage sans trousers.

I’d ask your earlier question differently… why did the Gov think Obama’s people would play the play-to-pay game with him since Obama had already announced his pick of successor on Veterans Day? Look, Obama and his people won’t be clean when this is over… will the press or Americans care? Nope. They didn’t with Wright. Nor Ayers. Nor Resko. Nor ACORN. They won’t with Blagojevich.

Hope and Change trumps the old politics of division and cynicism? I still think you can’t be from the vermin and viper pits and contend a rat or snake never touched you.

And VdaK may be right… if the heat lingers, the MSM can always do a sensitive piece on the wife, on the kids, on the friends in grammar school that they’ll be missing… on the new pooch… on Obama’s quandry over whether to kick the habit or not… or how much Michelle inspires the French to see her as the new Jackie… or the White House Dream Team in B’Ball.

The problem frog is “our guys” resign or are crippled. Did Foley do anything illegal? How bout Larry Craig tarred and feathered for playing footsie. Remember macacca? Allen’s career trashed forevermore over a word equal to any uttered by Jackson or Sharpton.

What have Jackson or Sharpton EVER been elected to??? NOTHING. And they never will. Allen didn’t lose because of uttering the one word. He lost because (A) he was completely unable to adequately explain why he would use this very obscure racist term and (B) even conservatives were making fun of him (Google “Macacawitz”).

As far as Craig goes, he’s an idiot. He shouldn’t have taken the deal in the first place. My GOD, call your frigging lawyer On The Spot. Of course, those options, you would think, would be the first reaction if he was innocent of the charges, and not, you know, actually guilty.

As for Foley, if he was a high school teacher, I think you would not want him to stay in a position of influence over teen-agers, even if he hadn’t actually done anything physical. The lewd texts are more than enough.

All three of your example, according to the standards the Republicans purport to live by, deserved what they got. Democrats have not conflict in this regard, because they don’t make having super high morals a top priority of the party. That’s why you can have Marion Barry as mayor of DC, even after getting busted for cocaine possession. It’s why the indestructible Barney Frank is still Senator even after running a gay brothel from his house. Their party doesn’t make a big deal about morals, so it’s not as much an issue to them and the liberal leaning press. It’s not just the breach of morals that draws the coverage to Republicans, it’s the perceived hypocrisy of the religious right wingers that is so juicy to the press (see Rev. Ted Haggard). And with the advent of Prop 8, expect it to get much worse.

Look, I’m not saying the Republican party should give up the moral high ground and become Democrats, (though I wish they would put its religious tendencies on the back burner, rebuild, and become the party of fiscal responsibility) but here’s the deal. As long as the Republican party chooses to hold itself up as the party of God and stronger moral values, those that prove themselves less than stellar in this regard will be made an example of. They put themselves in this position. Deal with it.

Only if The One is impeached and removed from office by February 20. Sadly, I think it’ll take longer than that. Pass the popcorn for Joe Biden’s fast track to the Oval Office.

Keep in mind that to the media, Democrats are rubber and Republicans are glue. They’ll do everything to cover it up. They’ll claim Sarah Palin collects Pauly Shore movies on DVD and trumpet it on the front page of the Junk Bond Times (formerly the New York Times) until their sheep are worshipping The One again.

It’s finally sunk in, this blog is meant to be a comedy! wish I’d figured that out before I would have spent less time looking for value.

So that means you’re gone, right? Can’t back up your assertions, so you’re off to the KOShole felch-fest where nobody asks questions, eh?

Barack Obama faces possible embarrassment because a methodical prosecutor who, until yesterday, was a hero of the left, has put together a credible case of corruption against a very sleazy politician who crawled out of the same swamp of Democrat machine politics that Obama did. But a fawning media is bending over backwards to put a firewall between Obama and Blagojavich.

How are these two cases even remotely similar? Help me out.

If you want to, NDT, go for it. You and others are certainly free to behave in a manner that you’ve criticized in others, if you want to join in on the hypocrisy game. In any case, I don’t recall Obama screaming for the heads of the Duke lacrosse players. If he did, well, what comes around goes around.

Why should they not get the same treatment they gave those players?

Yeah, Matt, the Duke Lacrosse players would appreciate that, I’m sure.