Are Repubs serving us MANURE on a pretty platter?

Question

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 $425,000 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???)))))))

Answer 1

It's 'Do as I say, not as I do'.

The GOP has always pandered to religious people, but they made a special effort starting with the 1980 election and Ronald Reagan. In the previous election Christians had voted Democratic, for Jimmy Carter, because he was a sincere Christian himself and his sister was a famous evangelist.

In 1980 the GOP corrupted religious leaders like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to conflate politics and religion and tell their flock that it was their religious duty to vote for Reagan.

They used the abortion issue to do this. They 'recast' the issue as we know it today just to win that election. Cathlics had always been anti-abortion but Protestant Christians never agreed on where life begins, but for this election Christian leaders drove a stake into the ground by declaring that life begins at fertilization. Reagan promised to pass a constitutional amendment banning abortion.

From that point on, a wide swath of Christians have truly believed that the Republicans were the party endorsed by God. Even though the GOP has really done very little for them besides lip-service, and the -real- agenda of the GOP is quite different.

'Family values' is one of those brilliant political concepts, a term deliberately designed to be vague and ambiguous. Everyone has a different idea of what it means, but each Christian who hears a Republican candidate use the term thinks the candidate means what he means himself. At the 1992 GOP convention, Barbara Bush and Pat Buchanan both made speeches about 'family values' back-to-back and you could see that it meant something completely different to each of them. This was one of the biggest mistakes the Repubs made in that election.

If you REALLY believed in -family values- you'd allow parents to have parental leave. You'd support public education and want to help with kids' healthcare. You'd want underprivileged mothers to have prenatal care, and underprivileged children to get vaccinated. The Repubs are against ALL these things!

And what's really funny is that whenever an especially homophobic Republican leader is found in bed with a young boy, Republicans say to liberals 'Hey, why are you suddenly against homosexuality?' 8^)

Answer 2

Well, at least the Repubs and Conservative Right, do expose and chastise their own, while the Liberal Dems., make every effort to cover up and continue to endorse their offenders...lets consider "President" Bill Clinton, having oral sex with a young woman under the executive desk in the "sacred" oval office, and lieing continually about it! Not even a slap on the wrist...Shameful!!!

Answer 3

First you listed numerous people without any scandal- getting divorced is not a scandal. I think the divorce rate is ridiculous and people need to try harder to make things work yet I am divorced from a cheating spouse who had no desire to try and work things out- Hypocritical??? No.
Try listing all the democrats and all their scandals and then maybe we can take you seriously and think maybe you are just after the truth not cheap political shots.

Answer 4

Absolutely, and obviously we've been stupid enough to eat it up.