Posted on 06/16/2009 4:23:54 PM PDT by vaper69
We are already seeing Sen. Ensign being attacked by local liberals, and it is spreading to the national level. However, reserve your judgement for a moment. You must consider certain facts about the affair.
* Ensign was separated from his wife at the time. * One they reconciled, he ended the affair. * The husband apparently demanded money from Ensign to keep quiet.
So it will depend on your own value system as to whether he should really take heat for violating his vows. It would be understandable to hold scorn for Ensign since he slept with the wife of an admitted friend. Of course, it gets difficult to feel bad for the husband when he attempted blackmail.
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I for one am willing to forgive him.
There's a word for that.
Memo to Ensign: You had kept your manhood in your pants, you would not be in this moronic BS in the first place.
You get what you deserve.
Old, old political advice - never sleep with your staff. But if you do, never stop.
I'll forgive him too. But he needs to resign. We can't have politicians with top security clearance making themselves vulnerable to blackmail.
“Ensign was separated from his wife at the time.”
He was married, seperated is still married, when he slept with another man’s, supposedly his friend, wife.
He betrayed his marriage vows and his friendship.
He dumped the honey to reunite with his wife and his husband of his former honey who was his former friend wanted revenge so he threatened to go public and spill the beans. So if the former friend hadn’t tried to blackmail him, would he have confessed? No.
Do I feel sorry for Ensign? NO. A marriage vow is sacred.
I’m willing to bet that they separated BECAUSE of the affair and that they reconciled Because he decided he was tired of the other woman. Call me a cynic, but the whole truth isn’t being presented. His poor wife has suffer humiliation and embarrassment because of his selfishness.
Exactly, he has proven that his word means nothing. Why should we trust him for anything else?
I'd have to disagree. I see no point to him resigning. An attempt was made to blackmail him and rather than submit, he revealed the matter on his own. I question his judgment in having an affair, but I am not worried about blackmail. His constituents can determine next election day if his lack of morals should cost him his seat.
Why should he resign? Besides, he faced the blackmail by coming clean.
If he worked for my company, I’d fire him on the spot, no questions asked.
Fine, lets get the rat politicians that have cheated out first.
Let me get this straight ... We have a queer crack smoking Muslim anti American foreign born traitor in the white hit and he is given a pass BUT
Ensign has a girl friend while he’s separated and HE gets in trouble ... I’m sorry but I find the hyporicy stunning
And that would be your prerogative, although you might later find yourself the subject of a wrongful termination lawsuit. However, the only people who can fire Sen. Ensign are the voters of Nevada, and they will have their chance the next time he stands for election.
From my limited reading, it appears he did confess to his wife, the other woman and the woman's husband, in private like a Christian should. What he did was a sin and inexcusable, but he handles his sin in a Biblical manner.
All is forgiven, so long as he doesn’t turn into another invertebrate, Potomac sipping, moderate, wishy-washy wimp.
The wronged husband demanded money?
Didn’t something like that happen to Alexander Hamilton? He was another great Constevative, a revolutionary conservative.
So, is this his first affair or the first affair were he has been caught?
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