Let's list all the republican congressmen who had extramarital love affairs.

[Swamp Rat]

I'll start the list with David Vitter:

[malaise]

1. John McCain n/t

[Swamp Rat]

10. Jeebus!! I thought he was faithful, happily married, and a god-fearin' christian!

[pokerfan]

45. Does Larry Craig count?

I suppose soliciting anonymous sex in an airport bathroom doesn't really count as an affair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxHCeo-8EU

[Swamp Rat]

56. Oh YES!

:D

[Nite Owl]

2. Forget congress

How 'bout Rudy the 911Ghouli!

[Swamp Rat]

16. But he's such a stand-up guy?

:o

[PA Democrat]

3. Ronald Reagan.

[electropop]

9. Bush Sr

Newsweek slyly referred to an aide who had "served him in a variety of positions over the years."

[Swamp Rat]

32. But Poppy was the Perfect President!

By whom was he "served?" :D

[electropop]

40. Jennifer Fitzgerald, a British-born retired U.S diplomat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Fitzgerald

and oops, sorry, it was the Washington Post that made the reference.

[Swamp Rat]

50. Thanks! Poppy was busy wasn't he.

Well, Babs ain't all that glamorous, so I don't really blame him.... or anyone who wants to have sex with someone they lust after. :D

[Swamp Rat]

18. OMG!!! Not Ronald Jesus Christ Reagan!!! That's IMPOSSIBLE!

:o

[PA Democrat]

22. He's even been nominated to the GOP Adultery Hall of Fame.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/ronald-reagan/

Sigh, good ol' Saint Ronnie.

[Octafish]

59. Weren't both his wives in a ''family way'' when they got married?

Well. Going from memory, there.

[Ichingcarpenter]

69. Beat me to it...... Ronald the fricking God of the GOP Reagan.

t turns out, however, that earlier in his Hollywood career St. Ronnie did engage in adultery at least once — with Jane Wyman, the woman who would become his first wife. Reagan met Wyman on the set of the film “Brother Rat” in 1938, when he was a B-list actor with a promising career and she was a relative unknown.

They started dating even though Wyman was very much married at the time, to Martin Futterman, a dress manufacturer. who was her second husband. After the relationship between Wyman and Reagan developed in early 1938, she divorced Futterman that December. But after Wyman was free, Reagan developed cold feet, so much so that Wyman threatened to commit suicide if he refused to propose. This ploy worked, and Reagan and Wyman were married at the Wee Kirk o’ the Heather chapel at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, Calif., in January 1940.

Over the next few years, Wyman’s film career took off. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1946 for “The Yearling,” and won in 1948 for “Johnny Belinda.” But Reagan’s care began the slide in 1942 after he received bad reviews in “Kings Row” that would eventually lead to his playing opposite a chimpanzee in “Bedtime for Bonzo” a decade or so later.

After Reagan’s marriage to Wyman marriage turned rocky, he moved into the Garden of Allah Hotel on the Sunset Strip, which was notorious as the sort of place where stars behaved badly. As Kitty Kelley wrote in “Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography” in 1991:

A series of women passed through Ronald Reagan’s bedroom in those years, so many, in fact, that he later told Joe Santley, a publicist, that he once found himself in the Garden of Allah Hotel with a woman he didn’t know. “I woke up one morning and I couldn’t remember the name of the gal I was in bed with. I said, ‘Hey, I gotta get a grip here.’”

http://www.pensitoreview.com/ronald-reagan/

[Swamp Rat]

70. Garden of Allah Hotel

That would make a great subject for a pic... much to the chagrin of those here who do not like my pix. :D

"Hey, I gotta get a grip here." :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :evilgrin:

:hi:

[pokercat999]

4. I'd help but there's not enough electrons in my computer. nt

[mikelgb]

5. a few more pages and you get to:

Mark Foley

:evilgrin:

[Swamp Rat]

23. Yeah, let's not forget Foley the Ephebophile, even though FUX Noise condones it when a republican

does it.

[ellenfl]

6. i don't have enough paper . . .

henry hyde
bob livingston (alleged)
newt 'the hoot' gingrich

don't have time here at work to do this now. B-)

ellen fl

[DrDan]

7. wouldn't it be easier to list those that have not

[tekisui]

8. Newt.

[Swamp Rat]

13. Oh my!! How is that possible? He's such a religious, conservative family guy!

:o

[dmr]

78. Newt's wife was recovering from uterine cancer surgery

when he went to her hospital room to discuss divorce. Nice secular leader of the "family values", eh?

He's a king of infidelities.

[babylonsister]

11. Here's a good list, already compiled, of rethugs' transgressions, from

soup to nuts. I hope you have time; it's long-g-g-g! :hi:

http://www.republicanoffenders.com/

[Swamp Rat]

30. I was hoping DUers would post a few each... and maybe elaborate.

I guess my OP was too cryptic. :D :hi:

[electropop]

12. Bob Livingston

[Swamp Rat]

58. Good ol' Bob.

I haven't seen him in the French Quarter lately. :D

[Richardo]

14. To what end?

I thought we didn't ascribe to the 'they do it too' theory. I thought that was loser GOP thinking. :shrug:

Edwards blew it - let's just acknowledge it for the betrayal it is, and turn our thoughts to Elizabeth and the family.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. I don't subscribe to "they do it too" either as a justification.

That being said, having a marital affair is a lot less of a concern than, say, manipulating and manufacting evidence to dupe the American public into supporting a war.

[Swamp Rat]

21. If you are so concerned about Elizabeth, why don't you send her flowers?

If anyone "blew it," it was Jeff Gannon. :D

[Richardo]

24. As Will Pitt pointed out, she's a DUer. Perhaps a little decorum would be nice

(Nice homophobic references, by the way.)

Now hurry up and post some more of your world-class shitty photoshops.

[PeaceNikki]

26. .

:applause:

[Swamp Rat]

29. Aw, you hate me too?

I wonder why? :D

[PeaceNikki]

71. I don't care about you enough to hate you.

I was just agreeing with the previous poster about your world-class shitty photoshops and pointing out your homophobic references.

[Swamp Rat]

72. "your world-class shitty photoshops and pointing out your homophobic references."

Apparently you dislike my pix enough to categorize them as "world-class." :D Thanks!

The "homophobic reference" accusation began with, and is grounded on the hatred of posters angry at me for criticizing Hillary Clinton, and you apparently are on the bandwagon.

Go for it. It only makes y'all look silly. :)

[Swamp Rat]

27. Yes, I agree. You should behave yourself and not mention her in this thread.

Though, you did get your dig in against John Edwards too. I hope you are happy now.

Have a nice day. :)

[Sheets of Easter]

31. Yes and yes!

:patriot: :thumbsup:

[Swamp Rat]

34. Welcome to DU!

Nice to meet you. :hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. I lurvs ya. -nt

[Swamp Rat]

36. é ahí bizantino!

Tudo bem? :hi:

[jane_pippin]

35. Heh.

Well said.

[Swamp Rat]

38. Nice to meet you too.

:hi:

I had no idea. :D

[jane_pippin]

61. No plastic wrap for me?

Not even poster edges?

le sigh.

:o

[Swamp Rat]

64. Aw! Here ya geaux:

... assez bon?

[HEyHEY]

73. This is true

[renate]

44. i agree

When a teenager says "But all the other kids drive drunk too," we don't say "well, okay then, just don't do it as often as they do."

I am so sad for Elizabeth and the kids.

[Swamp Rat]

46. Tsk tsk!

:spank:

[JackBeck]

15. Here ya' go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3749213&mesg_id=3749213

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Hell, there's a whole new BOOK listing them. . .there are too many to count.

The Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants: A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals

www.conservativesexscandals.com

Enjoy!

:evilgrin:

[elizfeelinggreat]

19. Yes, let's

Bob Barr

Bob Dole

Strom Thurmond

And remember how they were pestered until they admitted ... oh wait, I must be in an alternate galaxy ...

[Swamp Rat]

28. With whom did Strom Thurmond have an affair?

:D

[elizfeelinggreat]

39. "Strom Has Done a Lot of Living"

Apparently he had quite a reputation. I'm looking specifically for a link for when he cheated on his fourth (?) wife at age 88, but here's some more I found while looking:


He wasn't married for this first one but he also had no intention of marrying Miss Butler!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Illegitimate daughter

Shortly after Thurmond's death on June 26, 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams publicly revealed that she was Strom Thurmond's illegitimate daughter. She was born to a black maid, Carrie "Tunch" Butler (1909–1947), on October 12, 1925, when Butler was 16 and Thurmond was 22. Thurmond met Washington-Williams when she was 16. He helped pay her way through college and later paid her sums of money in cash or, through a nephew, checks. These payments extended well into her adult life.<7> Washington-Williams has stated that she did not reveal she was Thurmond's daughter during his lifetime because it "wasn't to the advantage of either one of us"<7> and that she kept silent out of love and respect for her father.<8> She denies that there was an agreement between the two to keep her connection to Thurmond silent.<7>

After Washington-Williams came forward, the Thurmond family publicly acknowledged her parentage. Many close friends and staff members had long suspected this to have been the case, stating that Thurmond had always taken a great amount of interest in Washington-Williams and that she was granted a degree of access to the Senator more appropriate to a family member than to a member of the public.

MORE:
Mark Steyn, a syndicated "conservative" columnist, paid a fond tribute to the sexually hyperactive Thurmond, a serial harasser in a column
(See: http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn08.html):

And he's the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have made love to a condemned murderess as she was being transferred from the women's prison to Death Row.

This was Sue Logue, the only woman in the state ever to be sent to the chair, but not before she'd been sent to the back seat of Strom's car for a lively final ride. (It was a particularly bloody murder case that had begun when Mr. Logue's calf had been kicked to death by some other feller's mule.) I mention this not merely to be salacious and gossipy, but as an example of the extraordinary pageant that is Strom's life. If this were an appreciation of John Kerry, we'd have exhausted all the interesting stuff a couple of paragraphs up and you'd already have flipped to the sports section.

I only met the senator during the impeachment trial in 1999. On the first day, in a chaotic melee by the elevators, I was suddenly pushed forward and thrown between Thurmond and California Sen. Barbara Boxer. Ol' Strom had just cast an appreciative bipartisan eye over the petite brunet liberal extremist. Boxer gave an involuntary shudder. I was squashed between the two for about five seconds when I became aware that my elbow was being affectionately caressed by Strom. Presumably he'd mistaken my dainty arm for Barbara's, but who knows? But what a great country. In how many other national legislatures can a guy just wander in off the street and find himself in a tripartisan squeeze being petted by a 97-year-old senator?

[Swamp Rat]

43. THANK YOU! Finally some grit and gristle!

:applause:

[elizfeelinggreat]

48. MORE

On August 2, 2006, the New York Times said, "In 1994, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was said to have engaged in excessive touching of his then-freshman colleague Patty Murray of Washington. Ms. Murray later asked for and received an apology from Mr. Thurmond, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported at the time. Through a spokeswoman, Ms. Murray declined to comment."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Murray

[Swamp Rat]

53. Very saucy chap wasn't he!

[jobycom]

25. Save time. Just print out the RNC membership list. Not that I give a damn.

What a public figure does when not on the clock, I don't care. That's between them and their spouse. Too many peeping toms in our society.

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. The list is just to make you feel better. Face reality, Dems will have to endure a few days of

this scandal.

[Swamp Rat]

41. But I already feel great!

I am just enjoying myself.... as are a few others apparently. :D

The GOPers are the ones who need to worry. ;)

[Liberal_in_LA]

74. Ok then. Enjoy!

:D

[Pale Blue Dot]

42. ... and we pounced on all of them. nt

[Swamp Rat]

47. A scathing story (repost) about at least one of them would be nice.

:bounce:

[ismnotwasm]

49. TMTC

In the nomenclature of microbiologists, too many too count.

But watch the hypocrite games being from those useless pieces of (R) shit

[Swamp Rat]

51. Break out the spectrometer!

I think I have a good algorithm for weeding out the slime from the flora. :D

[Hubert Flottz]

52. Joe LIEberman was seen hugging and kissing a Bush...

[Swamp Rat]

54. LOL!

No good without one of your pix!

[Hubert Flottz]

80. "Heckuva Job Joey"

[lumberjack_jeff]

55. If it's in an airport bathroom, it's okay.

:sarcasm:

[Swamp Rat]

57. It's a religious experience!

:D

See #56

[lumberjack_jeff]

60. I suppose that exemption should include "if wearing a diaper" too. n/t

[LeftinOH]

62. Warren G Harding: Long-term mistress and an illegitimate child, to boot..

this is going back just a few years, of course (1920).

[Swamp Rat]

63. Whoa!

I would have never thought to look at his record. Thanks!

[Karenina]

65. WOO-HOO!

:spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :woohoo:

[Swamp Rat]

67. NA DUUUU!!!!!!! LIEBLING!!!!!!!

:hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[Karenina]

75. Swamprat Sunday!

:kick::loveya::bounce::loveya::bounce::loveya::kick:

Krieg in Georgian!!! :hide:

[Karenina]

79. Nachmittags TRITT!

[MiniMe]

66. Tom DeLay

[Swamp Rat]

68. The BugMan visited numerous bedrooms while roach hunting.

;)

[Ilsa]

77. He had to do alot of screwing around in

hot tubs so he'd have something to get right with Jesus over.

[Cleita]

76. You'd need a big roll of TP for that list.

Most of them consider their wives are married but that they aren't.

[Karenina]

81. Bada-bing... Bada-

:kick: