Any Dem can get away with that. How many pubbies can?
The difference is that we have standards.
The key for me is that anyone hiding something can be pressured/blackmailed into voting for the wrong bill lest the secret be revealed.
If they cannot behave, they cannot be trusted. I won’t vote for them.
Some have. Vitter in LA with the prostitution scandal will survive, and it has almost completely dropped off the radar screen.
"The difference is that we have standards."
As we should. Though the problem with standards is that we've almost reached the point of expecting our people to be without any sin, an almost impossible task (especially given the field that they are in). I don't want to look like I'm defending bad behavior, but only that sometimes people make serious mistakes. The question is whether they are of a nature that the person can be forgiven, or whether it reaches the level that the person places our party and our nation at risk. Simply put, they shouldn't lie and deny, as Craig did to an embarrassing degree yesterday. Craig is now a serious liability and needs to go.
"The key for me is that anyone hiding something can be pressured/blackmailed into voting for the wrong bill lest the secret be revealed."
Exactly. Who is to say that Craig's pro-shamnesty stance wasn't a result of political blackmail ? Ditto that of Graham in SC (whom is also suspected of having similar predilictions).
"If they cannot behave, they cannot be trusted. I won’t vote for them."
Especially when they lie to our faces.