smooth wombat's Journal: Maybe Karma does exist

At this point in time, the Republican party should just give it up when trying to claim they're for family values. Between Reagan's divorce, Rush's three marriages, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's lying about where he was for almost two weeks to cover his taxpayer funded escapade with a mistress, and now, in a similar vein, former Republican Assemblyman Mike Duvall who was caught on an open microphone talking about not one but two mistresses. Did I mention that former Assemblyman Mike Duvall is married and has two kids? For bonus points, former Assemblyman Mike Duvall was given a 100 percent rating from Capitol Resource Institute, a conservative advocacy group, for his votes on legislation considered pro-family during the 2007-08 legislative session.

Here's the thing that really amazes me (ok, amazes is too strong a word. Let's go with "causes me to laugh and shake my head"). In the most recent cases of marital infidelity, neither person had any qualms about doing it. In the case of former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, here are his actual comments when resigning from the Assembly:

"I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly, who are working hard on the very serious problems facing our state."

Inappropriate comments are the reason you're resigning? Not the fact that the you were cheating on your wife with TWO women, not the fact that one of them is apparently a lobbyist with an energy firm the state does business with, not the fact that you told the one she might have to be traded in because she's 36? Really? You're resigning only because your comments were caught on an open mic?

It's quite obvious that neither party has the high ground when it comes to moral character. However, for the Republican party to keep trying to claim they stand for family values when practically every month someone from their party is caught having an extra-marital affair, it boggles the mind that people out there still believe the lies (to get on the coattails from last night's Presidential address to Congress).

Get over it folks! The Republican party doesn't care about family values. They're merely parroting the comments of the Christian Terrorists© which are hijacking the party. All the Republicans care about, just like the Democrats, is that you drink the Kool Aid and don't look too hard behind the curtain.