REPUBLICAN POSTER BOY ACKNOWLEDGES PATRONIZING THE “D.C. MADAM” - U.S. SENATOR REVEALS, “SERIOUS SIN”!

Mr. Cavala, you merely need to swap the politicians name; Mayor Antonio Villarigosa of Los Angeles and his political party, Democrat, and see how your party bashing approach here works when it is pointed back at ya baby! I guess the good Mayor's affair with a TV reporter/journalist doesn't cross any ethical boundaries in the democratic party even if the Mayor's wife is now sueing for divorce. Hey, isn't this the same guy who is one of Hillary Clinton's co-campaign chairmen? Seems like the Clinton's and Villarigosa have even more in common than just politics!

Hey bill, how come most of your articles have all upper case font in their titles? That is considered "shouting" I believe and generally uncooth.

Earlier this year San Francisco democrat Mayor Gavin Newsom was also caught "with his pants down" after admitting an affair with the wife of his campaign manager.

The Mayor of LA also has two kids by this marriage and two by previous marriages...

Cavala, just what is your point? Is it OK for democratic politicians to cheat on their wives, kids, families, friends and constituents but it is not OK for republican politicians as your article alludes to here? Or do republicans have standards of conduct which they fall short of at times but democrats have NO standards to uphold? What a hippocrit and/or a propaganda style mud-slinger. Is this what your 30 years as a "veteran" in Sacramento has taught you? Crawl back under your rock.

It's hard to take these comments seriously--Cavala's point is straightforward--Democratic politicians are not parading around the country talking about family values but have tried to keep their private life, for the most part, private and have tried to be tolerant of the shortcomings to which all humans are heir. What this country really needs is a sexual privacy law, like France. Unfortunately,
like pornography 20 years ago, there is a coalition of right-wing idealoges and feminist zealots who like using private sexual behavior against people, the right to villify, the feminists to collect more resources from men in marital dissolution cases. But this coalition lost against pornography and while I personally don't enjoy seeing it, the status of women in this society is by almost all measures higher than it was 20 years ago when we were told by Dworkin and McKinnon that woman would be irreperably harmed by its existence. Similarly,
while it's fun to rake a cheating spouse over the coals and make him wear the letter, this can also be used against women. Cast Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE).

Publius, you have got to be kidding. Cavala's "point" as you make it is not "straightforward" as you state it; nowhere does he mention democratic politicians hanky-panky in contrast to their opposition party, he only bashes republicans here and that in a straightforward manner. I have seen democratic politicians wave the family values banner too; it is a sound-bite to say only republicans wave it. However, it does seem that more on the right respect their marriage vows and standards of conduct over their left counterparts who obviously want to "Cast Off Your Old Tired Ethics" (COYOTE) which can obviously hurt someone; in these cases innocent wives and families and all so the one violating their vows can be individually selfish and please themselves at the great expense of others.

Lastly, if the democrats are or want to be, "...tolerant of the shortcomings of which all humans are heir", then I don't think the democrat cavala is being very tolerant here of someones shortcomings. Nor is this person's private life being private. Do you?

Democrats in campaigns are not villifying Republicans for being
adulterous, hymn-singing hypocrites (you have to turn on the Daily
Show to see that--can't wait to see what they say about Vittner).
Cavala is being snide, but only to point out the hypocrisy of the
Republicans. Democrats "go family" in self defense. As far as the
right "respecting" their marriage vows more, I've yet to see it.
Typically, those who claim or imply they are more moral, patriotic or
whatever are less--consider Bush and Cheney's behavior during the
Vietnam War and the slanders they unleashed on Kerry, who actually
took ordinance for our country. No Republican has any right to claim
any sort of sexual privacy after the way they went after Clinton for
his admittedly disgraceful sexual behavior.

Try this link on for size--gives an account of hypocrisy that is difficult to believe.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/us/11vitter.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

publius, your not convincing here as your argument is simply if the republicans call democrats on their behavior then it is OK for democrats to call republicans on it. Some higher plane you've got there wanting private lives to be private, etc. cavala does his slash and burn with unabashed glee and uses an admitted gossip blog as his "source material" (I clicked on it and it doesn't crank up either). Your direction to a NY Times piece further bashing Vitter ala cavala no doubt says the same about you.

I say go ahead and bash, but don't be a hippocrit about it, OK for you but not for them. By your own logic, you are no better than the republicans/right you bash.

Still, little simpathy shown here for the real victims, the one's who took the vows seriously and were hurt by the ones who committed a selfish act with total disregard for the ones they made promises too. Promises are supposed to mean something or there wouldn't be any made. Excusing promises not kept via a new "ethics" your COYOTE perhaps, shows a weak character and acceptance to tolerate hurting people for purely selfish satisfaction. Not a good leadership quality either.

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