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To: combjelly who wrote (375358)	3/28/2008 10:36:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578501

I suspect the numbers are similar in both parties. People are people. The thing that impresses me though is that Republicans tend to get rid of their sinners. Democrats often reward them. Look at Ted Kennedy, Frank, Studds, ......

To: combjelly who wrote (375358)	3/29/2008 12:47:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578501

Nice explanation of the situation from my recent post on PfP: "A measure of hypocrisy is necessary to a functioning society. It's quite possible, on the one hand, to be opposed to the legalization of prostitution yet, on the other, to pull your hat down over your brow every other Tuesday and sneak off to the cat house on the other side of town. Your inability to live up to your own standards does not, in and of itself, nullify them. The left gives the impression that a Republican senator caught in a whorehouse ought immediately to say, "You're right. I should have supported earmarks for hookers in the 2005 appropriations bill." That's the reason why sex scandals take down Republicans but not Democrats: Sex-wise, the left's standards are that whatever's your bag is cool – which is the equivalent of no standards. Thus, Monica Lewinsky was a "grown woman" free to make her own decisions on the carpet of the Oval Office. Without agreed "moral standards," all you have is the law. When it's no longer clear something is wrong, all you can do is make it illegal." -- Mark Steyn