God Hates Adultery

The traditional media may be interested almost exclusively in the sex
lives of Democratic politicians, but on the hypocrisy index, it is hard to
score higher than Republicans pontificating about saving the institution of
marriage while so many of their leaders are serial and long-time adulterers:

1. President George H.W. Bush allegedly had an LTR with
British-born Jennifer
Fitzgerald that lasted at least two decades, all while married to Bar,
who said, “He didn’t even notice when I stopped coloring my hair.”

2. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, famously married to Maria Shriver,
is allegedly a serial
groper, a purveyor
of prostitutes and the father of at least one
child out of wedlock.

3. Sen. John McCain, 2008 Republican presidential frontrunner, and
admitted adulterer
and alleged philanderer.

4. Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, betrayed
his second wife, TV presenter Donna Hanover, with his “very good
friend” Judith Nathan, whom he has since married. Hanover also publicly
accused Rudy of having an affair with a staffer, Cristyne Lategano-Nicholas.

5. Rush Limbaugh, comedian, (a.k.a. “Rusty Sharpe”) dated
Marta Fitzgerald while
she was married to someone else. Marta later became his third wife.
(He and CNN’s Daryn Kagin recently stopped dating.)

6. Bill O’Reilly, propagandist, who is married
to Maureen McPhilmy, tried
to have phone sex with Andrea Mackris, who sued him for sexual
harrassment.

7. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is probably the most
audacious serial adulterer in any political party.

8. Former Rep. Bob Barr’s notoriety
as an adulterer was one of many
ironies around the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) which he
wrote, and which was passed with the leadership of fellow adulterers Sen.
Majority Leader Bob Dole
and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

9. Rep. Henry Hyde, who served as chairman of House Mangers in the
adultery-related impeachment of President Clinton, was a home-wrecker himself.
Hyde had an
affair when he was a young and foolish man of 41 while he and his
girlfriend were both very much married. Her husband later said Hyde broke up
his family.

10. Gary Bauer, professional moralizing Christian nationalist,
experienced a mutiny when he was running for president when actual Christians
on the staff of his 2000 presidential campaign quit in protest over Bauer’s “inappropriate”
behavior with a 26-year-old deputy campaign manager. Euww.

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And for more on
the reality behind Republicans’ purported family values, see this
listat Pam’s House
Blend.