It must be so confusing to be a religious conservative.

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Well, I suppose it all depends on whom you’re spanking.

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Which would probably be most things. But:
There’s a John Edwards sex tape?

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Zipper trouble for the GOP class of ‘94, “Contract With America”-types who rode into office on a wave of OUTRAGE:
In the 14 years since that star-crossed class arrived in Washington espousing an agenda that placed family values at its core, no less than a dozen of its members have been caught up in affairs, sex […]

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Veddy interesting.
South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis made a name for himself in the late 1990s as one of Bill Clinton’s most zealous pursuers, an impeachment “manager” who attacked the moral failings of the president with a gusto that earned him a devoted following in the staunchly conservative “Upstate” of conservative South Carolina.
But with his governor […]

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Funny. According to this cached page, Gov. Sanford had been invited to speak at the 2009 “Values Voters” summit in September (second to last row).
The page has since been updated - and Sanford’s been scrubbed. I wonder why?
While we’re at it - a quick hit on the Sanford business.

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D.C. Madam found dead, reportedly after committing suicide.

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Here’s what I don’t understand about the Stephen Spiese case, the grotesque contradiction at the heart of it all:
Lots of people come forward to defend Spiese at his sentencing, noting too that he has worked extensively with children, whose lives he has enriched. And I don’t doubt that he has done just that.
But one particular […]

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Glenn Greenwald is riffing on the Spitzer thing, and while I’m generally a huge fan of Greenwald’s, I think the likes of Spitzer really should be kicked to the curb - not because of the “immorality” of what he did, but because here is an official specifically tasked with rooting out wrongdoing and corruption, and really […]

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Damned disappointing, I’d say. He seemed like a new breed of Democrat, a good breed - but you can’t climb atop your white horse to battle corruption and wrongdoing and then hire a hooker. And so he needs to go, and soon.

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