Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Sex Scandal Update: WaPo's Milbank Details the Decline and Fall of the GOP Class of 1994

Oh, this is rich. The vaunted GOP class of 1994—the Republican Revolution swept into office in response to Bill Clinton's election—has turned out to have a boatload of scandals, most of them sexual. 

Despite their religious roots and conservative principles, this bunch has fallen well short of their ideals. In fact, the list of Republican legislators from 1994 involved in sexual misconduct is impressively long. It includes John Ensign of Nevada and Mark Sanford of South Carolina and, just this week, a conservative Indiana Republican, Rep. Mark Souder, who has campaigned for sexual abstinence.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post has the list and more on the scandal. It's good stuff—he nails the hypocrites who claim the moral high ground while doing whatever they please.

Read his full report here.

4 comments:

Tulsan said...

"Despite their religious roots and conservative principles, this bunch has fallen well short of their ideals."

Indeed, it is almost a defining characteristic of the religious right that their "ideals" bear little relation to their behavior.

Their evangelizing might be slightly more persuasive if their lifestyles bore some semblance of a relationship to their avowed prinicples.

Monk-in-Training said...

I think there must be something in their thought processes, the cognitive dissonance of their life/faith that lets them compartmentalize themselves so much.

Br. James Patrick

Tulsan said...

Compartmentalization of thought is easy. Unity is difficult. The religious right takes the easy path.

Tulsan said...

But false unity can be worse than compartmentalization.