Should've just come clean from the beginning.

Seems like the default assumption should be that politicians are having affairs and then when can be pleasantly surprised by those who aren't.

the point is not to say we should accept people like gary hart.

the point is the double standard. donnie lies more than any other politician, including about his affairs.

the media killed gary hart's career basically for one lie about one affair.

donnie's lied countless times about countless topics, including multiple affairs. the media covers the stories, but they didn't kill his career the way they killed gary hart's career.

they rarely use words like "gaffe" or "scandal" and never ask things like "how can he govern with this trust issue?"

But Hart handled his situation poorly.

That said, the fact that Trump was able to become president in spite of the Access Hollywood tape is still mind-boggling to me.

Had it been a Democrat.

The media has a huuuuge double standard and Donnie's president because of it.

The access Hollywood thing didn't end his career because the media didn't say it did.

afterwards he admitted it all.

Was a different place then.

the party of family values and Christian faith.

But even the Mighty GOP didn’t do it all by themselves. Times change and so do people’s values.

On the other hand, it seems Al Franken was run out of town on a rail for much less.

the woman from the RNC is saying that Steve Wynn should be getting.

Remember this guy?



Remember Congressional secretaries who couldn’t type, take shorthand, or file things?

but am curious.

Thanks.

from wikipedia

Mills was involved in a traffic incident in Washington, DC at 2 a.m. on October 9, 1974.[5] His car was stopped by U.S. Park Police late at night because the driver had not turned on the lights. Mills was intoxicated, and his face was injured from a scuffle with Annabelle Battistella, better known as Fanne Foxe, a stripper from Argentina. When police approached the car, Foxe leapt from the car and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin in an attempt to escape.[5][6][7] She was taken to St. Elizabeths Mental Hospital for treatment.

Despite the scandal, Mills was re-elected to Congress in November 1974 in a heavily Democratic year with nearly 60% of the vote, defeating Republican Judy Petty. On November 30, 1974, Mills, seemingly drunk, was accompanied by Fanne Foxe's husband onstage at The Pilgrim Theatre in Boston, a burlesque house where Foxe was performing. He held a press conference from Foxe's dressing room.[5] Soon after this second public incident, Mills stepped down from his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged his alcoholism, joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and checked himself into the Palm Beach Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida.[8]

Mills did not run for re-election in 1976 and was succeeded by Democrat Jim Guy Tucker.[9][10] Thereafter, Mills practiced law at the prestigious Shea and Gould Law Firm of New York's Washington Office, until he retired in 1991 and moved back to Arkansas to work on the establishment of the Wilbur D. Mills Treatment Center for Alcoholism, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences's Wilbur D. Mills Endowed Chairs on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, and the Masonic Grand Lodge's fundraising campaign.

Mills died in Searcy, Arkansas in 1992. He is interred at Kensett Cemetery in Kensett, Arkansas.[11]

So the media did follow him. And they got their story. Talk about a self-destructing candidate. I liked Hart at the time, and thought he had a legit chance to topple Reagan. But his lying about the affair turned most Democrats off, and it was big disappointment for its time.

That occurred 31 years ago: pre-internet, pre-social media, and back when cable news was still a novelty. So, of course, the standards then-to-now are as different as night and day.

31 years is a significant span of time. Start with the date of the Gary Hart-Donna Rice affair, 1987, and subtract 31 years -- 1956. Imagine how much the public's standards of what's decent and acceptable changed between 1956 and 1987.

sort of a give away.