1. William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States
Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate.
2. Edward Moore Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.
Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
3. Barney Frank, Representative from Massachusetts
Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman's Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.
4. Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois
Arrested by FBI agents and charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and with solicitation of bribery. The Justice Department complaint alleges that the governor conspired to commit several "pay-to-play" schemes, including attempting to sell Obama's vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder. He has since been impeached.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/governor.blagojevich.impeachment.2.903841.html
5. Sheila Dixon, Mayor of Baltimore
Charged with four counts of perjury and two counts of theft over $500, as well as theft under $500, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in office.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-dixon0109,0,3147190.story
6. Democratic National Committee
The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.
7. James McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
8. Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York
Resigned from office after being tied to a prostitution ring.
9. Jesse Jackson, Democratic candidate for President.
Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.
10. Gary Condit, Congressman from California.
Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park.
These are ten of the many instances of Democratic misconduct that I could find in a simple Google search. I'm not trying to assert that the Democratic Party is made up completely of cheats, liars and sexual predators; but I am asserting that due to the facts listed above, the Democratic Party is not perfect (and as such, should stop acting that way). I am always surprised when the Republican Party is burned at the stake for moral failings, by holier than thou Democrats.
(Information for this posted was sourced from http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Scandals.htm. Feel free to take a look.)
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Have you googled your own party's criminally accused?
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/07/republican_party_full_of_scandals
http://www.badmouth.net/top-five-republican-gay-sex-scandals/
Here you go, take your pick of Republican scandals. The difference between Republican scandals and Democratic scandals are that Mark Foley (R), Ted Haggard (R), Larry Craig (R), Bob Allen (R), Glenn Murphy Jr. (R) are no longer active, or influential members of the party. Can the same be the said for Bill Clinton (D), Ted Kennedy (D), and Barney Frank (D)?
I never said the Republican Party wasn't subject to scandal and its members not guilty of misconduct. I was however, making the assertion that criminally accused members of the Democratic Party are treated with kiddy gloves compared to their counterparts in the Republican Party.
I would add to the above comment that having a scandal and/or criminal or moral weakness only strengthens the political power of the democrat. Since democrats, as demonstrated for their tolerance of criminals and the immoral political leader, lack the requisite values to find flaws in criminal and moral shortcomings, the public attention a democrat in a scandal receives only gives him/her more political clout. Republicans strive to me law-abiding moral people and want the same in their leaders. Democrats don't care.
ReplyDeleteSenator David Vitter and Senator Larry Craig both continued to serve in the Senate after there scandals were made public. This is not how Republicans will win if the only thing they can do is point out folks past mistakes. The problem with Republicans is that they are constantly critical of the Democrats but they never offer any ideas of there own. When Republicans start putting out ideas that can be debated then we can talk and actually make this country better.
ReplyDeleteAs stated earlier, this post was not to highlight the "perfect" Republican Party vs. the "imperfect" Democratic Party. Within one year of both the Vitter and Craig scandals they were out of influential power. My point being, that the same cannot be said for ranking members of the Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteScandals aside, the goal, quite frankly, of the Republican Party is not to come up with new ideas about how to run the country, but to simply revert to the ideas that are outlined in the Constitution (I am of course talking fiscally here, let’s not revert to the 3/5ths compromise). There is a fundamental political belief that American lives would be much better if everything, save national defense, was funded, managed and operated by local institutions. Many view the argument of fiscal conservativism to offer nothing new and I would say that you’re absolutely right. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be debated.
"Within one year of both the Vitter and Craig scandals they were out of influential power."
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately that is not correct. Senator Vitter still remains in influential positions in the United States Senate, including holding a seat on the Committee on Foriegn Relations, where he served in the 110th Congress as the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Democracy and Human Rights; which is the Subcommittee in charge of oversight of the US State Department, the US Foreign Service, US involvement in the United Nations, and public diplomacy. That seems to me to be a position of influential power. Senator Vitter, it should be noted, is also currently engaged in fundraising for his reelection campaign, you can donate at www.vitterforsenate.com
Not saying I disagree with everything you're saying, I believe you have a point. I would say that there are better ways to make the argument I believe you are trying to make.
I agree that there is far too much corruption in the Democratic Party, but to say that the Republican Party has a strong record of removing party members that are involved in corruption is laughable.
As for your points on fiscal conservatism, I look forward to a more detailed post regarding that subject at a later date, as that clearly can not be your entire argument.
I must admit that you're correct and that concerning Vitter, I spoke too soon.
ReplyDeleteA post for fiscal conservativism will come soon.