[Grovenet] Falling like flies . . . . .

[Katie Allnutt]

Ah, the irony of having "Promise Keepers" and the like find that when  
they preach and preach and preach about keeping your pants on, they  
can't understand why the entire republican party becomes a laughing  
stock.

War is peace.  Bomb bomb bomb Iran.
Greed at the top should get tax cuts -  always and repeatedly.
Jobs should be shipped over seas.
If you have 3 affairs/mistresses ala Newt and Giuliani you rise to a  
position of power in the family value party.
And never have regulators inspect peanut processors because dead  
people who ate rotten peanut butter crackers are no longer at any risk.

If there was such a thing as The Mirror of Hypocrisy they would not  
be able to see their own reflection in it.

It all boils down to a philosophy of power. If republicans have power  
then they can do no wrong.  Their mistakes toward their constituents  
are never an issue -heckuva job Brownie!
Their transgressions toward their spouses are never a problem - keep  
your senate seat or your governorship regardless of what you said  
about the president 8 years ago.
Their transgressions toward their politics isn't even much of an  
issue - unless it involves a tax increase or abortion.  Bush I got  
clobbered because he said 'read my lips' and raised taxes.   
Schwartzenegger could be a true 'God' of the party but he messed up  
with taxes, now he is a pariah.
Of course you can run spending up as high as you want to go as long  
as you claim that you didn't. ie Sarah Palin - "I turned down the  
money for the bridge to nowhere" (but only after she started spending  
it).

None of us have any illusions that Democrats are saints, they are  
not.  (And Teddy Kennedy has worked very hard to atone for his  
transgressions, though for many who preach forgiveness, they will  
never be able to forgive him.)

Right now the timing is very unfortunate for the republicans. My  
heart goes out to the wives and children who don't deserve the  
unwanted spot light.  The rest of us can chuckle about the whole  
'promise keeper' political farce but for the families it is a very  
painful and publicly humiliating revelation.  While the republican  
party deserves the scrutiny about the differences between their  
family value declarations and their actions, the families deserve our  
condolences.

Katie

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet- 
>> bounces at rdrop.com]On
>> Behalf Of David Morelli
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:15 PM
>> To: Forest Grove local interests list
>> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Falling like flies . . . . .
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>>
>> Remember, the Republicans are the party of "family values" who spent
>> untold amounts of energy, time and newspaper headlines worrying if a
>> politician who had an affair was fit to be a member of the  
>> government.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Bob Browning wrote:
>>
>>> SC Gov. Mark Sanford admits he's had an affair
>>>
>>
>>> by JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer Jim Davenport, Associated
>>> Press Writer 5 mins ago
>>>
>>> COLUMBIA, S.C. – Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday he's been
>>> having an affair with a woman he visited on a secret trip to
>>> Argentina and said he'll resign ...
>>>
>>
>>> Sanford's announcement came a day after another prominent
>>> Republican, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, apologized to his GOP
>>> Senate colleagues after revealing last week that he had an affair
>>> with a campaign staffer and was resigning from the GOP leadership.
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