Posted on 06/30/2009 9:52:23 AM PDT by dcroanoke
Predict the next national pol who will confess to cheating and win a prize
"Oh -- he (or she) has been hiking the Appalachian Trail!"
Wink. Nudge. Big smirk. I'd bet Sanford wishes he'd never invented that sorry excuse as a cover for his adultery in Argentina.
The question on my mind is, who's next going to "take a hike on the AT"?
Which means it's contest time!
I challenge you to predict the name of the next national political figure, or evolution-damning preacher, who calls a press conference and fesses up to cheating on his (or her) spouse.
We have two great prizes to offer:
The first is "The Best of the Appalachian Trail Overnight Hikes" 2nd Edition (Menasha Ridge Press, 2007) by Victoria Logue, Frank Logue and Leonard M. Atkins. It will be autographed by Atkins, an outdoors writer who has thru hiked the AT five times and blogs at habitualhiker.com.
The second is "Sex Scandal in America - Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming" (The Key Publishing House Inc., 2009) by David Rosen. It bills itself as "a comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times (including Pocahontas and the Puritans) to today."
Of course, plenty of people already have taken themselves out of the running. Talking Points Memo and Americablog have done a good job covering adulterous Republicans. And How to Kill Chickens has a pretty good inventory of cheating Democrats. So make sure you don't waste your prediction on any of the folks they've already covered.
You must enter this contest as a comment on the blog. Rules are below the jump. http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2009/06/30/contest-name-the-next-politician-to-go-hiking-the-appalachian-trail/
Ummm.... Michelle Obama?
John Heinz Kerry.
Nancy Pelosi will reveal a torrid affair with Helen Thomas.
NOT ONE DEMOCRAT —— A Democrat never tells the truth....as Wanda Sykes says “you gotta stick with the lie!” [when speaking about how OJ got off]
Democrats are held to a much lower standard by the MSM so they don’t have to confess to anything.
Democrats don’t confess. They revel and boast. That is the difference between the two parties.
It’ll never happen. The Dems don’t claim to be moral in this regard, so any stories of Dems playing around on their wives/husbands will never be covered. Even when they manage to get covered, there are more apologists than accusers, as with Clinton.
If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s nobody to hear it....
they don’t confess; they are caught... and I would guess Obama’s penchant for hookers has to come to light one of these days
Al Franken and his pet duck.
For the dims, it is a resume enhancer. JFK and Klintoon
I wish some "reporter" would ask a few dem politicans if in fact they believe it's OK to cheat on their wives. I suspect they would same the same thing a Republican would say. But our wonderful biased one-sided bigoted press won't ask that question - because they don't want the answer.
Easier for them to use the issue to beat us up with...
I wish some "reporter" would ask a few dem politicians if in fact they believe it's OK to cheat on their wives. I suspect they would same the same thing a Republican would say. But our wonderful biased one-sided bigoted press won't ask that question - because they don't want the answer.
Easier for them to use the issue to beat us up with...
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