Posted on 07/14/2005 3:08:36 PM PDT by John Jorsett
I feel bad for Cunningham, but if he's guilty, he's got it coming, and this needs to happen.
Anyhow, it'll be nice to see who steps up to the plate. The bench is always deep in R districts in California due to term limits in their state leg.
What do you like about the one you mentioned?
Good riddence Randy. Thanks for making the GOP look bad just for your own selfish wants.
Darn - he's my congressman & I still think the guy is a hero.
Cunningham's district is as Red as the fires of Hades (hmmm, I'll have to think of a better metaphor :-). There's no way it'll send a Democrat to Congress.
Good. He betrayed the folks at MCAS Miramar a couple of years ago, and my husband has never forgiven him.
Can we not celebrate the heroic things from a man's life if he has fallen short in other areas or at other times?
Do you wish to throw the Founding Fathers under the bus because they owned slaves?
Celebrate the good, acknowledge the bad.
i agree.
duke knew the rules. he's a big boy. he chose to conduct his life as he did.
i'm not defending republicans who do wrong because they're "our guys". wrong is wrong.
i lived in duke's district and voted for him several times until my zipcode was moved into darryl issa's district. i visited duke's escondido office several times. i was treated well. i enjoyed looking at his vietnam memorabilia.
After his house sale and his boat deal, he no longer needs the income.
Whew! That's a relief--about the district that is ;-).
Yeah but did Hillary resign from public life? Did it affect Clinton's 1992 campaign?
Non-sequitor.
Owning slaves, which was legal at the time, is not on the same level as corruption of an elected official.
When I was in the service, I took an oath, just like Cunningham, to preserve and protect the Constitution and the Country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The day Duke took his first corrupt dollar is the day he decided to spit on his oath and the Constitution.
Exactly. He knew the rules and decided that taking money was more important than playing by the rules. (Never mind his oath of office --preserve, protect, Constitution, Country, enemies, foreign & domestic, etc.)
It doesn't surprise me to see Republicans here defend him. After all, he may be a bastard, but he's our bastard.
Okay. You've explained how his reaction to getting caught is different.
Now explain how his initial acts were different from hers.
Also, explain why you excuse his, yet excoriate hers.
Read my posts. I never excused Cunningham's corruption. All I'm pointing out is that there's a double standard.
Nope. I just want him gone.
Give the guy a break. He's an American hero. He's stepping down and that's the end of it.
His heroism is beyond question. But the statute of limitations has run out on that. And, lapse of time aside, all the heroism in the world does not excuse corruption, of which today's announcement was a tacit admission.
No good can come from Congressman Cunningham hanging onto his seat for another 18 months. His continued presence will be totally ineffective for his constituents, and worse, will serve as an excuse for the Dems to allege "Republican corruption."
Cunningham is in an utterly safe GOP district. He should step aside, and allow a new, and clean, Republican to begin building seniority.
There's an irony here. Cunningham won his seat in 1990, but redistricting posed major problems. So, in 1992, he switched districts, and forced a Republican incumbent out of the primary, after it was revealed that the incumbent was one of the few Republican House members who was writing hot checks in the House banking scandal.
Come on, San Diego! Can you, at long last, elect an honorable Representative?
Legality is not morality.
The man's a real hero who made some bad choices at the end of a solid Congressional career. He's doing the right thing for the GOP by not running again. We could lose that seat w/ him on the ticket and Duke knew that. I wish it hadn't come to this but he's doing the right thing.
I don't condone him for what he did, but I do thank him for years of service to the country.
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