My repuke Congressman claims his marital infidelity is a "private issue."

[liberalhistorian]

I live in Northeast Ohio, Lake County to be exact (suburbs east of Cleveland), and my Congressman is Steve LaTourette, a former county prosecutor. He's a fairly moderate repuke, but an obnoxious one nonetheless.

There have been rumors of affairs going back from the very beginning of his time in Washington, almost ten years ago, yet he's always been considered the perfect "family man" (GAG!) He's been married for 22 years and has three children. Recently, he called his wife, told her he was involved with someone else (his fourth or fifth affair, I think), and that their marriage was over, then he hung up. Boom, just like that. His wife said that he was the best husband and father until he went to Washington, then he was "corrupted"; she added that she hated Washington and all those snared within its power web. Well, I say he was a fake even before he went to D.C., but that's another story.

Anyway, my local paper, The News-Herald, which is so quick to splash all of the "immoral", but private, doings of Dems on its front page, didn't even do its own story but relied on Associated Press reports and put it in the back of the first section. Even more infuriating, LaTourette is telling the media and everyone else to back off and leave it alone because it is a "private matter between my family and I", and that's all they were going to get from him.

Oh, really? Now, I do agree that it is, indeed, a private matter and no one else's business. But when this hypocritical self-righteous judgmental, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, wingnut repuke claims the privacy mantle for himself, I can't help remembering that he was one of the strong cheerleaders for Clinton's impeachment and wanted every detail of his sexual escapades made public, saying that it showed that he did not have the "moral fiber and fortitude, or integrity" to be the nation's leader, and that a man who betrays his family betrays the country he leads, blah blah blah, the usual hypocritical wingnut bullshit. So why, then, is HIS infidelity and betrayal of his family just a "private matter", when he's so eager to skewer Clinton and other Dems for the same thing, and when he's so eager to have the details of THEIR private lives made public? Who the hell does he think he is? I'M SO SICK OF HYPOCRITICAL WINGNUTS!!!!!

[gratuitous]

1. Ah, now it's a private matter

He sure didn't think so back in 1998, when he voted to impeach President Clinton on three of the four articles of impeachment. Sounds to me like a classic example of when the goose and gander principle should be applied. Resign, Mr. LaTourette. Resign.

[liberalhistorian]

10. Exactly, that's what I mean.

But he isn't going to resign, not if I know him the way I think I do. He'll just hide behind his privacy mantle, and the "Washington corrupts" bullshit, and will probably blame Clinton for somehow leading him astray. GAG!

[BallaFaseke]

2. I hope you guys kick him out of office

I can't stand crap like that either.

And I do feel bad for his wife and kids. They should get some revenge.

[liberalhistorian]

12. Unfortunately, around here people

tend to think he's God no matter what he does, so I don't think he'll be voted out. Of course, if he were a Dem, that'd be a different story.

[shance]

3. Gee, it wasnt private for President Clinton was it?

Some Republicans never cease to amaze me.

[bleedingheart]

4. Its the "I don't answer sleazy questions" shield

Bush Sr. used that when confronted with Jennifer Fitzgerald.

I hear his wife is going batty trying to get it into the papers. I also read that she didn't even know where he lived when he lived in DC...now how is that good?

[tnlefty]

14. Paging Mr. Flynnt (sp?)!!! This woman has enough to deal with

Suppose someone could help this get some media attention??? What about the effects of this on the children? Will they fair as well as Newt's?

[liberalhistorian]

15. Speaking of papers, I plan on calling

the News-Herald and asking why the hell they aren't covering this? They splash the sins of Dems all over the front page all the time, but I haven't seen anything at all about this except for the Associated Press report they ran WAAAAAYYYYYYY at the back of the paper.

[AWD]

5. Latourette is insane...always has been

The Dem running against him should use a campaign ad that states "Steve Latourette's wife thinks he was corrupted bywashington, and it made him commit adultery. Let's get him out of there before his family is destroyed."

[BallaFaseke]

7. His family is destroyed

He won't win relection. The rw fundies can't stand crap like this.

[liberalhistorian]

8. Unfortunately, around here

people seem to think he's the second coming of Christ, no matter what he does, and they'll just do the usual hypocritical, wingnut, one-standard-for-libs-but-another-standard-for-conservatives bullshit. Just like they're doing with Rush. He'll use the "Washington corrupted me" bullshit, and they'll buy it. Because repukes never, ever, do things like that voluntarily, do they, only those eeeevil "libruls" do. Watch them even blame it on Clinton!

[BallaFaseke]

11. Got it it's just that I know a couple of rw fundies and

they are so rabid as to want repukes like this guy to be struck dead.

[CBHagman]

19. He obviously suffers from LaTourette Syndrome.

:evilgrin:

[liberalhistorian]

20. LOL!

I think we, his unfortunate constituents, are the ones suffering from that symptom!

[Bandit]

6. It's all about Character

I seem to remember that phrase from somewhere. :think:

[11 Bravo]

9. But haven't they always claimed that the adulterers are in charge.

n/t

[liberalhistorian]

13. LOL!

It's really funny when their own words come back to bite them, isn't it?

[tom_paine]

16. Being a Bushevik means never having to say you're sorry

It also means you can do whatever you want, and criticize people for doing exactly what you've done and no one will call you on it (at least no one with the capability of reaching more than a few dozen people).

[library_max]

17. Well, we ourselves are going to have to make up our minds on this.

Because we're just as hypocritical if it was OK for Clinton but we're prepared to crucify Republicans for it.

Personally, I believe that marital fidelity is a private matter - that Clinton should have been left alone and that Republicans should likewise be left alone about it. Smack LaTourette for hypocrisy if you can find a good anti-Clinton-character quote, but we mustn't set ourselves up as equal-and-opposite hypocrites.

[liberalhistorian]

21. I understand what you're saying, but it's not the

infidelity that's the issue here. The issue is the total, sickening, rank hypocrisy of the repukes who flamebroiled Clinton over an open fire for so long, and even voted for his impeachment, for doing something that they, themselves, are/were guilty of, and insisting that every detail of Clinton's sexual adventures be published so that the country could see his "lack of moral fiber and integrity, betrayal of his family", blah, blah, blah; then turning around and insisting that, when they commit the same behavior, it's a "private issue" and no one else's business! THAT'S the issue here.

[1songbird]

18. "rite the paper a scathing letter pointing out the hypocrisy. "

[John_H]

22. Same thing in No. Virginia

Tom Davis boinks the help, gets kicked out of the house, gets his new chickie-poo elected to the state senate, breaking fundraising records and......NOT A SINGLE STORY ABOUT IT.


God damn librul media.

[liberalhistorian]

23. Yes, you'd think that

damned biased "librul" media would be all over it, wouldn't you?

[lovedems]

24. karma in action. It's getting alot of them. n/t

[Brian Sweat]

25. I agree with your Congressman

I just wish that he and his kind practiced what they preached.

[Cat Atomic]

26. I agree with him. Marital infidelity IS a private issue.

However, hypocrisy is not.

These stories are going to come up alot. As you mentioned, we need to focus on the hypocrisy, not the infidelity itself. To focus on the affair is to make *ourselves* into hypocrites as well.

[Wapsie B]

27. Monica changed all the rules.

Now there are none. None for repugs of course. God forbid if he were a Democrat.

[PVnRT]

28. Of course

You see, THEIR misdeeds and infidelities are none of your business.

But when it's a Democrat, by God, we must spend billions investigating it instead of terrorists who are planning to kill 3000 in New York City! It is imperative to the survival of this country!