[Gaffer]

Yes! Of course. Harding as a Republican along with Jefferson, HW Bush (there were accusations IIRC), Strom Thurmond et al - any of those bastard Republicans.

No mention of FDR and his Warm Springs Honey, or JFK’s stable of floozies, Clinton or any of that.

Morals only count when a Republican is involved.

[buridan]

“Strom Thurmond et al - any of those bastard Republicans”

Strom was a Democrat when he did it.

[katana]

Errr, Jefferson was a Member of the nascent Democratic Republican Party, which became today's Democrats. His scandal was the rumored intimacy he had with one of his house slaves, who also happened to be the half sister of and supposedly bore a strong resemblance to his deceased wife. The Federalists and later the Whigs dissolved and the remnants became today's Republicans, mostly on the platforms of tariff protection and anti-slavery (non extension into territories and new States, and more radically for the time abolition).

Sexual indiscretions cross party lines, but Democrats get away with more because of the press giving them cover, and when you're admitted perverts it's hard to be accused of hypocrisy. When the town vicar gets caught with his crosier in the wrong spot it gets more attention than when the town drunk is caught in a compromised position.

[KosmicKitty]

Jefferson was NOT a Republican, FWIW