In 2007, Bob Allen, Florida Republican state legislator, married with one child, was arrested in a public restroom after offering to perform oral sex on an undercover officer for $20.Īnother restroom adventurer was Senator Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho, an outspoken opponent of gays in the military and gay marriage. Vitter refused to resign, assuring everyone that "I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife."Īlong with the hypocritical philanderers, there are the subterranean gay blades.
for several years, and earlier having used the services of a New Orleans brothel over a five-month period. In 2007, Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican and family-values man, made the news for having patronized a prostitution ring in Washington, D.C. Yet it was the Republicans who laid claim to being keepers of traditional family values, while damning the liberals for their amorality and profligacy. On the Democratic side, the three front runners, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, had neither divorces nor infidelities. Three leading candidates for the Republican 2008 presidential nomination, Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, and Newt Gingrich, had five divorces between them, all involving adultery. While in Congress, Barr authored the "Defense of Marriage Act," probably with good reason. He soon took on a new mistress who became wife #3 shortly after he dumped #2. Barr was on record as a staunch right-to-lifer, but this did not prevent him from driving wife #2 to a clinic and paying the costs for her abortion. While still married to his first wife, he was romancing the woman who would become his second wife. He did everybody a favor by dropping out of the 1998 congressional race.īob Barr was a Georgia GOP congressman until 2003, after which he became a conservative activist. Sensing that no one would swallow that story, Randall again reversed course and admitted to paternity. After confirming the child's existence, he changed his story the next day during a press interview, suddenly insisting that his teenage son was the father. House of Representatives in Florida, admitted that he had fathered an illegitimate child in the 1980s. Republican Baptist minister Bill Randall, who had been aggressively touted by the Republican party as a candidate for the U.S. In 2007, he claimed to have come to grips with his "personal failures," having sought God's forgiveness. At one point Gingrich's ailing ex-wife and children had to get material assistance from their local church, having received insufficient sums from Gingrich himself. Gingrich hastened a divorce action against his (second) wife while she was hospitalized with cancer in order that he might marry the aide. Speaker of the House, Republican Newt Gingrich, led the charge against the philandering Clinton while himself carrying on an affair with a congressional aide. Representative Bob Livingston, Louisiana Republican, married with four children, resigned as House speaker-elect after his marital infidelities made the headlines in 1998. Soon after that she died and he quickly remarried. In 1992, Hyde divorced his wife of 45 years. Hyde dismissed the affair as "a youthful indiscretion"-it having ended when he was just a callow youngster of 43 or so. The woman's former husband blamed Hyde for the divorce that followed from the affair, and for the emotional damage inflicted on his children. The several obituaries I read about Hyde failed to mention that he a six-year liaison with a young married mother of three children.
Recently-deceased Representative Henry Hyde, Illinois Republican, played a key role in the impeachment campaign waged against the adulterous president Bill Clinton. Consider this incomplete sampling of politically prominent "social conservatives" who preach the conventional virtues to their constituents while practicing something else in their off-hours. Their private deeds, however, frequently betray their words. GOP leaders dilate on the need to "put God back into public life." Many of them even claim to be directly guided by their deity's mandate when legislating and governing. Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism-all of which they tend to lump together as different facets of the same evil decadence.
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