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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:43 PM
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I don't want someone in the House that is so hung up over sex that


he puts pics of his privates, etc. on the net.

our country is in shambles and he spends TIME thinking/doing sexual stuff.

and now the House has to spend TIME talking about what to do about him.

he should have quit by now and taken his sick self home.
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:45 PM
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1. In 30 years...
Its gonna be hard to find a politician who DIDN'T put their privates on the net. This is a personal issue between him and his wife. I love his politics and that's what I vote on.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:48 PM
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3. he should have kept it between him and his wife but he didn't


now the world is involved
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:52 PM
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9. I doubt most of the world gives a shit.
They have breasts in TV commercials. Sex isn't taboo like it is here in this prudish fucking country.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:20 PM
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26. what does breasts in commercials have to do with this?


you are changing the subject
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:25 PM
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29. You mentioned "the entire world"
And I'm telling you that the "entire world" doesn't really give a shit about this because in their country they are way more tolerant of their sexual-ness. Thats all, didn't think it was that complex.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:33 PM
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33. I'm sure most people here in Japan don't give a gnat's stool
about this American tempest-in-a-teapot
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:47 PM
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2. Please. Everyone in Congress is driven by insatiable ambition.
It is completely understandable that sexual ego comes with that.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:55 PM
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10. no its not - you make it sound like insatiable ambition always involves
Edited on Mon Jun-06-11 09:21 PM by ensho

putting their sexual lives out in the public

'sexual ego' now there's a subject!
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:58 PM
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12. You misunderstood. Insatiable ambition is a pre-requisite.
It should be assumed, and is the case, that that ambition often comes with sexual ambition. It really shouldn't surprise anyone.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:01 PM
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15. yeah, but that doesn't mean imprudence on the level of Weiner
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:03 PM
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17. Honestly, though. In this society, could he have been honset and
weathered the storm?

I find nothing wrong with what he did. I don't like dishonesty, but I have to ask if there is any possibility he would have been given a pass if he had admitted to what gets him off and tried to move on?
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:14 PM
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21. I think it's the only way he could have weathered the storm.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:49 PM
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4. And I don't want a weirdo whose mother lists his hobby as
polishing his shoes.

Save me from the saints, please. Sinners make better friends and leaders.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:59 PM
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13. somehow, this makes me think of Ken Starr
That was a repressed man. And look at the damage he did to our country.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:23 PM
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28. what a bazaar thing to say

"sinners make better leaders"
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:49 PM
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5. Especially when he already has a beautiful wife
Puzzzling.
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Avant Guardian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:49 PM
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6. I dont see what the stink is about
It's nobody's business really. Nothing illegal done, no reason to freak out about it.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:14 PM
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22. when you put it on the net its everyone's business
nt
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Avant Guardian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:19 AM
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38. And?
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:50 PM
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7. It really doesn't matter
In the end, other than the lying, it's a private issue. You can bet your bottom dollar that many more in Congress do this, but are just more careful about it. If they do the job and follow the law, that's all I need to know.
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:50 PM
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8. He's hung up on sex? No, you're hung up on sex.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:03 PM
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16. Supposedly 6 other
women - over 200 tweets. On our time?
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Drahthaardogs Donating Member (482 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:06 PM
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18. Aw come on!
I am sorry, I do not consider myself a prude, but there are 535 people in Congress. They are, along with the President, Vice President, and the Supreme Court, the most powerful leaders in the free world. This guy has to go sending pictures of his junk around the net. He is not the only one, we had our closeted-gay Senator trolling for dates in the men's room, another Senator taking off his clothes for craiglist babes...these people are fucking stupid! I do not care if you want to be a philanderer, go for it if that is what makes you happy, but for God's sake, be smart about it. It is not his morality I question, it is his thought process. He is a dumbshit.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:19 PM
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24. well said
nt
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:03 AM
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39. Come on. They used to make teachers wear dresses to their ankles.
Sex is good. Pleasure is good. Racy pictures are good. It is prudish to think that certain people should not indulge their sexual interests, just because of their political positions.

He did not commit a crime in some public bathroom.

It's amazing how much Victorian England there is in our country. And that means we condemn it when we see it, but the same thing is happening in spades underneath the surface.

Let some sun shine in. It feels good.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:57 PM
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11. I'm pretty sure, like most humans, politicians
"spend TIME thinking/doing sexual stuff".
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:10 PM
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20. How dare they be humans!!...
The country has problems and stuff11!1!

Elevenses.

Sid
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:25 PM
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30. on the net? I don't think so. they are not that dumb or hung up
nt
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PhillySane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 08:59 PM
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14. I don't care if they're hung or not
Edited on Mon Jun-06-11 09:09 PM by PhillySane
as long as they get the job done.
-Chastity Effsalot
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:06 PM
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19. All Representatives should be absolutely chaste because the country has problems...
:rofl:

Fucking absurd.

Sid
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:18 PM
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23. chaste? this has nothing to do with being chaste


he was/is stupid to put it on the net - it was like asking for political suicide
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:27 PM
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32. "thinking/doing sexual stuff."...
Sex is a healthy, normal part of human behavior. I'd rather have representatives who engage in "thinking/doing sexual stuff" than a bunch of repressed prudes who'll release their tensions in far more destructive ways.

Sid
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:19 PM
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25. Yes it would be bad to be liberal about sex.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:21 PM
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27. Vitters was caught up in the DC Madame scandal and made it to the Senate

some freaking sexting isn't that big a deal


give it a month and it will all be old news
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:26 PM
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31. I think we have generations of narcissists
We're baby boomers and the idea of posting pics of our various parts across the globe does not appeal to us.

Seriously what's up with this?

There is no privacy on social media - why would anyone do this and believe it could remain private?
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TexasProgresive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:39 PM
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34. I'd take Tony's johnson anyday over the penis I have for a rep. n/t
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:41 PM
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35. 6 women, tweets, facebook messages, emails, and phone sex almost sounds like
some kind of sexual addiction to me. If that's the case, then his actions need to be looked at in a different light.

I feel sorry for the guy.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 09:44 PM
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36. kick
nt
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jimmyflint Donating Member (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 10:00 PM
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37. LOL, all this is silly.
It's like the old people bitching about all the naked dancing hippies of the 60's. :rofl:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:05 AM
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40. Why do you assume someone can't find time for both? nt
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:18 AM
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41. Congress: only eunuchs need apply. n/t
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:21 AM
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42. (sigh) too bad.
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