What is it with Republicans and smut?

[CatWoman]

What is it with Republicans and smut? What is it that prompts the self-proclaimed paragons of moral values to commit prose that is at once prurient and putrid?

Consider the GOP gallery of purple prose purveyors:

William Safire, Newt Gingrich, Lynne Cheney, G. Gordon Liddy, William Buckley and Kenneth Starr. And let's not forget Bill O'Reilly, whose unwanted phone sex messages to a female colleague cost him a bundle in an out-of-court settlement.

Some might argue that it is unfair to include Starr in that crowd, but not if they read the pious pornographer's report of his investigation of the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater and Just Plain Bill's sordid romp with Monica Lewinsky and sundry others. According to Lauren Collins, writing in The New Yorker, in 1998 the Starr Report was nominated for consideration in the bad fictional sex writing contest that Britain's Literary Review holds each year.

Republicans might argue that they are content to write about such carnal matters, while Democrats indulge in them. They might, that is, if they think we don't remember the adventures of Henry Hyde and Dan Burton, those two moralizing hypocrites who were among Clinton's most vociferous assailants.

http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op111305s202542.shtml

[seabeyond]

1. appears to just be the pedophiles, geez, not even other sex stuff

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

* Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

* Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

* Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

* Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

* Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

* Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

* Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[kanrok]

5. Holy shit!

The party of pedophiles! Great post.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Truly

:crazy: This is probably why they surround themselves around "religious" leaders so they can claim "oh they're such good Christian mena, it's those mean liberals 'persecuting' them!" :eyes: I can't remember where I heard this (radio program I remember) someone told how Mel Gibson (yes Mr "Passion of the Christ") was going to a film of O'Reilly's sex book! Ew!!!

[Punkingal]

6. OMG...

That list is unbelievable. And they have the nerve to criticize Bill Clinton. At least he didn't have sex with a minor.

[CatWoman]

7. not that I don't appreciate your input

but the point of this thread is the stuff that these people write as novelists.

[seabeyond]

10. oh, okay, my bad, wink you are right, the stuff they write

i have been totally ignoring, not reading at all. i dont wanna.

[adarling]

17. Found this on Baumen

"I did not choose to be homosexual. I would change my sexual orientation if that were within my power."

So confessed Robert Bauman, the powerful conservative congressman from Maryland. Americans were stunned in 1980 when headlines revealed Bauman had been caught red-handed having a sexual rendezvous with a young male prostitute. In his book "The Gentleman from Maryland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative," Bauman revealed the conditions that shaped his own tortured double life as a pro-family Republican congressman and closet homosexual.

At the tender age of five, Bauman had been sexually seduced by a twelve-year-old neighbor. Reflecting on that pivotal experience, as well as subsequent similar episodes, Bauman described the powerful feelings he found welling up within him at a young age:

This was not a matter of chance attraction to a forbidden object. This was a frightening force from deep within my being, an involuntary reaction to the sight, smell, and feel of other boys. I neither understood nor accepted it. And I came to hate myself because of the presence within me of this horrible weakness, this uncleanness of spirit over which I seemed to have no control.

I was sure my predicament was a unique punishment designed only for me. Unable to understand it myself, I could never even attempt an explanation to someone else. I countered my dilemma with a plan that constituted the essence of simplicity. I made up my mind that I was not "queer." I heard all those denunciations of homos by my military school peers and firmly resolved I could never be considered one of such a despicable breed.


Still can't accept who he is...such a republican

[belle]

24. God, they're just so DEPRESSING, aren't they? "Oh woe is me, I am unclean"

As per the childhood incident, really a good psychologist can help you deal with what sounds rather traumatic (twelve is too old to be "playing" with a five year old, regardless of gender or orientation). As for the rest of it...well, sorry to be harsh, but, um, dude...get over it. A lot of us belong to "that despicable breed," and we're actually quite nice. Join the human race, will you? Plant a foot, live a bit, stay a while.

[oasis]

21. #18 on your list, Beverly Russell, Christian Coalition leader and GOP

activist, contributed to the unstable mental condition of his stepdaughter, Susan Smith. She was convicted of murder for drowning her two boys.

Does anyone remember Newt Gingrich's wisecrack when the story of the boy's drowning first broke?

[belle]

23. Makes perfect sense for the uber-repressed. Kids are weak, and also

they're more easily intimidated into not talking about it. Who better to dump all your crazy pent-up shit onto?

[tsuki]

2. Never mind Falafel's phone sex. Did you catch Randi when

she was playing parts of his smut novel over the air? :puke:

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Oh that was so gross!

[biscotti]

3. They are all sexually repressed

causing twisted dark sexual fantasies. Hypocritical demented freaks.

[CatWoman]

4. what kind of sick fucking mind comes up with a bear raping a 10 year old

girl?

that was my thought when I heard about Libby's novel.

I think the biggest consumers of sleaze magazines are Republicans.

I'm not talking porn.

I'm talking degenerated sleaze.

[catmother]

8. colbert was reading from it the other night and i thought it was a

joke until keith olberman talked about it. what kind of person writes a book like that?

[bluedawg12]

16. Yea, and watch them lionize this puke like Ollie the liar.

This guy wrote this trash and then got a top secret clearance?

F*ck him with a grizzly!

[belle]

25. Davy Crockett fetishist? Sorry...

[Mr_Spock]

13. I agree - taking out the anxiety caused by their repressed shit on us

is some serious bullshit. We should tie them up and whip them with long leather whips :rofl:

(I have a feeling they might like it)

[catmother]

9. the starr report was too much information. i wouldn't be

surprised if he was jerking-off while writing it. probably never had a BJ in his life.

[WillyT]

11. Um... Theirs... Is A Long And Sordid Tale...

:hide::wow::hide:

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

14. Shouldn't that be "And his G-String"?

Oh, Mary, don't ask!

[WillyT]

20. He Was Probably More Into Pasties, Don't Ya Think ???

Especially in his era.

:shrug:

[Mr_Spock]

12. Why do you think they are driven to spew all this faith crap

They are scared to death of the demons inside them that are driving them to do these "scary" acts. Normally adjusted Democrats don't worry about this crap and therefore don't have as many repressed issues. Republicans are all in the closet in one way or another. Perverted freaks :D

[susanna]

15. Interesting...

"Republicans might argue that they are content to write about such carnal matters, while Democrats indulge in them."

They should - GASP - remember Jimmy Carter's (and generally the Southern Baptists') admonition that if they so much as think it, they have already committed lust in their hearts. (And that is not good.)

edited for clarity like usual

[belle]

26. Actually, both R's and D's do both. Difference is, we're better at it.

Both writing and doing, that is.

[CatWoman]

30. I didn't know Democrats liked screwing bears and deers

:shrug:

[oasis]

22. Justice Clarence Thomas expanded his XXX video library to include a

shrine for his hero, Long Dong Silver.:loveya:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Repression and projection.

Nerds like Gingrich and Starr realized they never had Big Dog's smooth ways with the ladies. Realizing that they couldn't beat him politically either, they tried to shame him, but that didn't work.

And O'Reilly couldn't handle a woman in person, so he had to resort to the phone. That backfired like buckshot to the face, so he had to pay money to a woman he couldn't even get. Meanwhile, Big Dog didn't need to pay anything but lawyer's fees and he still knocks 'em dead.

[Hekate]

28. They're obsessed with other people's sex lives. Look at the legislation

So much comes down to controlling sexual activity, even sexual thoughts: abortion, divorce, gay marriage, homosexuality, sex-education in public schools, contraception/birth control. The list goes on and on.

Sex is dirty and MUST be kept under tight control because women, children, and minorities just cannot be trusted with this dangerous impulse.

All this obsession and control come at a cost, because what is severely repressed will break out somewhere, sometime. Flaming hypocrisy among the powerful has always been one of the results.

Hekate

[Hubert Flottz]

29. Smut, Smite and Smote, that's all he wrote...

"arragghrrorwr" A republican politician, will Fu?k anything that don't get out of the way, including, goats, deer, bear, grandmas, grandpas, school kids, his own country and his own mother!

"arragghrrorwr" If a republican politician can't fu?k something, then he will fu?k that something up!