Republican "Paragons of Virtue" in High National Offices - (Section I ) :

The logical place to start might be the top, namely corruption at the presidential level.  But since there are so few presidents compared to members of Congress, let's start with Congress, and then down to the state and local level, and before taking up the presidents.

Conservatives promote the idea that Democrats should hang their heads in shame over people like Larry Flint, a publisher of pornography, if such people reveal that they vote Democratic.  But political parties can't control or be responsible for those who vote for their party's candidates.  What parties can control is whom they endorse to run under their banner for any public office.  And the Democratic Party doesn't promote people like Larry Flint for public office. Contrast that to the kinds of people the Republican Party regularly selects for positions of leadership in their party, people like :

• Senator John Ensign (R-NV.) confessed to serious cheating on his wife with a staffer and caught paying hush money to the husband, his chief of staff.
• Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), confessed to serious cheating on his wife after leaving his state unsupervised for a week.
• Senator Larry Craig (R-ID.), caught in a gay sex sting operation in a Minn. bathroom.
• Senator David Vitter (R-LA), found to have been a client of prostitutes in D.C. & Louisiana.
• Rep. Mark Foley, (R-Fl.) forced to resign when he was found to be having inappropriate communications with male pages.

• In Connecticut, the holier-than-thou Republican party chose the mayor of one of the state's largest cities as its candidate for the U.S. Senate.  If Joe Lieberman had caved in to Republican demands in the year 2000 that he not run for relection to the senate at the same time that he was running for the vice presidency, then our nation would have had a Republican Senator from Conn., named Philip Giordano at least until he was sentenced to serve his 37 year sentence in Federal prison as a result of the FBI investigating him for financial shenanigans and discovering in the process that this crooked, disgusting Republican office holder had been repeatedly molesting two pre-teen little girls related to his prostitute-mistress (in the mayor's office among other places).
     There was more on this disgusting Republican office holder at : 1010wins.com/topstories, but it has since been removed.

• Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.), resigned in 1995 under a threat of public senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual harassment.
• William "Wild Bill" Janklow was promoted to many high offices in very conservative South Dakota, including the 27th and 30th Governor, 25th Attorney General, and the United States Congress. He was only removed from office when he was forced to after being convicted of killing someone with his car while speedy through a stop sign. ( The superintendent of the state highway patrol, reported at his trial that Janklow had 16 traffic stops by troopers during his last term as governor, but was not ticketed due to "respect for his authority" and out of a "fear of retribution.")
          But why did the Republican Party select this man to run for so many high offices in its name? In 1955, at the age of 16, he was convicted of the sexual assault of a 17-year old woman. As a juvenile offense, this conviction carried little weight under U.S. law.

  However, in 1966, while working as the tribal attorney for the Rosebud Sioux, Janklow–aged 27–was accused of raping his children's 15-year-old babysitter, Jancita Eagle Deer. Adult sexual offenses being more grave than this earlier recorded exploit, Janklow used his capacity as head of reservation legal services to stave off the (illegible) of formal, federal charges. He then resigned his position and left tribal jurisdiction." . . .

  (Janklow may be the only known sex offender and accused rapist in living memory to have occupied a U. S. governor's office).

  "Had it not been for the intervention of the FBI in the form of its undercover agent, Douglass Durham, it seems possible that Janklow would have gone to the state prison rather than to the state capitol. Conversely, had it not been for the unabashed cooperation of Attorney General William Janklow, the reign of terror perpetrated by the FBI against the American Indian Movement would have been much more difficult to pull off."

  [ from http://www.dlncoalition.org/dln_issues/strangecaseofjan ...

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  and now many MORE Republican Congressmen & women :

  Oh, how "Pro Life" those Republicans are !

• Rep. DesJarlais,
who is also a doctor, made the unfortunately rather common decision to cheat on his wife before assuming office. However, that's not all he did. You see, besides cheating on his wife, Rep. DesJarlais' choice of partners bears mention – specifically, he…
• Cheated with his coworkers
• Cheated with his own patients.
• Wrote false prescriptions for one of his mistresses to get drugs, and…
• Pressured his own wife to get an abortion – twice – while campaigning as a supposedly family values-friendly candidate.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports:

A decade before calling himself "a consistent supporter of pro-life values," Tennessee physician and Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais supported his ex-wife's decision to get two abortions before their marriage, according to the congressman's sworn testimony during his divorce trialObtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the couple's 2001 trial transcript also confirms DesJarlais had sexual relationships with at least two patients, three coworkers and a drug representative while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tenn. During one affair with a female patient, DesJarlais prescribed her drugs, gave her an $875 watch and bought her a plane ticket to Las Vegas, records show.
[ from http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-may-be-the-worst-congressional-sex-scandal-you-read-about/ ]

• Newt Gingrich (R-GA) According to L. H. Carter, reported to be one of Gingrich's closest friends until a falling-out in 1979,  "Newt is amoral.  There isn't any right or wrong,  there isn't any conservative or liberal.  There's only what will work best for Newt Gingrich."
          Mary Kahn, wife of Mr. Gingrich's Congressional campaign manager during the 1970s said, "Newt uses people and then discards them as useless.  He really is a man with no conscience.  He just doesn't seem to care who he hurts or why." Keep those to quotes in mind as you read what Mr. Gingrich told the Washington Post on January 3, 1995:  "I have an enormous personal ambition.  I want to shift the entire planet.  And I am doing it."
• Bob Livingston (R-LA) was about to replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House until he resigned in disgrace when it was revealed that he admitted to had been involved in several adulterous affairs, (while attempting to crucify Democratic President Clinton for having done much less)!
• Bob Barr (R-GA) the principal sponsor of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, has been married three (or is it now four) times.  And at a party in 1992, Barr actually licked whipped cream off the breasts of two women, neither of them his current wife.  Now that's family values!
• Bill Thomas (R-CA) This 11-term Republican is chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Health.  In June, (2003?) the Bakersfield Californian reported that Thomas, who is married, was having an affair with health care lobbyist Deborah Steelman, who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war chest.  In an "open letter to friends and neighbors" (voters), Thomas did not deny the relationship, but said during his legislative career, "  . . .  Any personal failures of commitment or responsibility to my wife, family, or friends are just that, personal.  I have never traded a public responsibility for a personal one and I never will."
• Dan Burton (R-Indiana) was the Chairman of the House Government Reform & Oversight Committee.  He hated President Clinton so much that he publicly called him a "scumbag".  Following an expose, Burton was forced to admit that he fathered an out-of-wedlock child, a fact he denied for years.
          He has yet to admit, however, that during 38 years of marriage he has committed adultery with dozens of women, sexually assaulted others (including a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood), and kept mistresses on his campaign and public payrolls – to the tune of at least a half-million dollars.
• Charles Canady (R-Fl), Judiciary Committee member.  A leading opponent of abortion, Canady lied to his constituents about his adulterous affair with Sharon Becker, which caused her divorce from Florida businessman Robert Becker.
• Dick Armey (R-TX): as an economics professor before entering Congress, was accused of sexually harassing female students, according to the Dallas Observer. 
• John Peterson (R-PA): has been accused of sexual harassment and hostile-work-environment claims by six women.
• Helen Chenoweth (R-ID): one of first to condemn Clinton, admitted to having a six year extramarital affair with a married associate. The Spokane Spokesman-Review, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed. (She has since divorced and remarried – no doubt with the Lord's blessing!-)
• J.C. Watts (R-Oklahoma): has said "Character is simply doing right when no one is looking." Watts has tried to cover up his out-of-wedlock child.
• John Schmitz (R-CA), former extreme right-wing Republican fathered two children by a mistress — a former student named Carla Stuckle whom Schmitz taught when he was a professor at Santa Ana College.  One of these children was once admitted to an Orange County hospital with hair tied in a square knot around his penis so tightly that it was almost severed.
          Congressman Schmitz' daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, made national headlines when as a school teacher, she was arrested twice for having sex and producing two children with an underage student of hers (beginning when he was only 13 years old).
• Don Sherwood (R-PA) Had a five year adulterous affair which only ended when his mistress sued him for physical abuse (and attempted murder?) in 2004.
• Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl, which produced a child.
• Donald "Buz" Lukens (R-OH) was found guilty of having sex with a minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
• Ken Calvert (R-CA) said in 1998,  "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky."  This is the same Christian Coalition ally, who was caught by police in 1993 receiving oral sex from a prostitute.  His ex-wife also sued him for failure to pay alimony.
• Randy Cunningham (R-CA): In their corruption case, which resulted in a prison sentence of several years, Federal prosecutors also investigated allegations that Congressman 'Duke' Cunningham was periodically supplied with prositutes.
• Sue Myrick, Congresswoman (R-NC), describes herself as a "devout Christian." Yet she's divorced and now married to the man with whom some say she has admitted committing adultery when she and he were married to their prior spouses.
• Jim Bunn, (R-Oregon) With his success due in great part to support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then left his wife (and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll with a salary of $ 97,500.
• Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were circulated.
• Rep. Vito Fossela. (R-NY) another "family values" Republican lost his seat when it was revealed that he had fathered a child with a woman not his wife.
• Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) 's estranged wife claims in a lawsuit he had an affair that ruined their marriage while Pickering was in Congress and living in a Christian building for lawmakers on C Street, near the U.S. Capitol. Pickering, 45, was elected to Congress in 1996, retired in January and is now a lobbyist in Washington for Cellular South, the company that is owned by his mistress's family.
• Dan Crane (R-IL) On July 20, 1983, the House voted to simultaneously censure two members of Congress for sexual misconduct, the first time it had ever done so.
  Crane was censured for having sexual relations with a 17 year-old female page.
  Gerry Studds(D-Mass.) was censured for having sexual relations with a 17 year-old male page.
          Conservative Republicans try to get some kind of political advantage by treating these two cases as morally equivalent, or they speak only of the Democrat, Studds.  But here's the rest of the story that they don't want people to know:
          Repub. Crane was a married man at the time and a father of six young children, while Dem. Studds had been single at the time. As homosexuals, Studds and the page were not allowed to marry, but their relationship was so consensual that they had been together for ten years from the time of the original liason until 1983, when the "scandal" broke.
          Neither of the two resigned from Congress; they both ran for re-election.
          The Repub. Crane was defeated. The Dem. Studds was re-elected for 5 more terms for a total of 20 years.
• Robert Bauman (R-MD) was campaigning for his fourth term as a Maryland Congressman in 1980.  A practicing Roman Catholic with a wife and child, he was one of the most vocal conservatives in a very conservative Congress.  He regularly rallied for old-fashioned values and attacked all supporters of abortion and homosexual rights.  His campaign looked rock-solid, before it changed overnight with a series of shocking revelations.  The public learned that Bauman had been charged with soliciting sex from a 16-year old boy he picked up at a gay bar, and that he had been the victim of an extortion scheme by a man who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with him.  This, combined with an alcohol problem (which did not seem to bother his fellow Congressmen before), doomed his political career.

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• In the Fall of 2009, yet another conservative Christian Republican fell from grace. Assemblymen Michael Duvall of Yorba Linda, CA. made the mistake of bragging before a "hot mike" to a fellow legislator, about his sexual conquests with female lobbyists, at "the head table" of a legislative hearing room, . This champion opponent of gay equality was a married man with two children who had earned a 100% rating for good Christian family values organizations. Now, he's joined the cavalcade of disgraced hypocritical Republican former politiicians.
• Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers. [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/8/12123/29391 ]
• Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General of Georgia, prosecuted the famous "Bowers vs. Hardwick" case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair.
• Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
• Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while he was on an Asian business trip.
• Roy Cohn, continually condemned gays and gay rights. Was a closet gay who died of AIDS.
• Carey Lee Cramer, political consultant and producer of negative presidential campaign ads, convicted of molesting two young girls, one of whom lived with him, and was 8 yrs old; the other starred in an anti-Kerry commercial. political skullduggery.
• Lewis Libby, former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 1996 published a novel containing bizarre sexual content, including bestiality and pedophilia.Full Details
• Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harrassment by his producer. The suit included graphic details, including tape-recordings. O'Reilly's wife was pregnant at the time. O'Reilly settled and paid millions of dollars rather than have the details become public.
• Judith Regan, Conservative Republican writer and pundit has had several well-publicized affairs and marriages and divorces, and tried to publish a book by O.J. Simpson that wasn't even up to FOX's low standards.

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  Here's an interesting article from "Pat & Jerry Country":
  "Convicted sex offender wins 'Republican of the Year' award",
  by Matthew Roy, The Virginian-Pilot ©
  February 13, 2002

  Suffolk,VA – " previous commitment will keep a Suffolk man from traveling to Washington, D.C., to accept a Republican of the Year award: He's serving a 26-year state prison sentence.

  Spokesmen for the National Republican Congressional Committee, an arm of the Republican National Committee that raises millions of dollars to elect GOP candidates to the U.S. House of Representatives, acknowledged Tuesday that convicted sex offender Mark A. Grethen was invited to accept the award at its Business Advisory Council's luncheon in March. U.S Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairs the NRCC. . . The award was rescinded after the NRCC learned that Grethen, 44, a former businessman, was convicted last year of six sex crimes involving children – two counts each of forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties.  He is in the Deep Meadow Correctional Center, and his projected release date is Sept. 25, 2024."

  { www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0213per.html for the original article.)

Which of these Republicans could   fool   YOU ?

"He was a handsome, charming, urbane and extrovert graduate, who did charity work and campaigned for the Republican Party in the USA .  Ted Bundy did not fit the bill as a prolific serial killer.  And that was his great advantage.  Friends, relatives and even detectives instinctively shied away from following up their suspicions about him.  The women he killed also did not suspect a thing until it was too late" . . .  from

Here are more that I missed,

• Republican Commissioner ( of Richland County, OH ) David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
• Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
• Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
• Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth anti-abortion activist who gained fame during the Schiavo media-circus, was convicted of two charges of raping a child in 2002 .
• An anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency, who was not likely a Democrat, pleaded guilty offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor and to possessing child pornography on his computer.
• Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
• Republican pastor Mike Hintz,a First Assembly of God youth pastor whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
• Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
• Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.
• Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
• Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter, the Susan Smith who drowned her adorable two sons "in cold blood" in a South Carolina lake in 1995.
• Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.
• Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
• Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
• Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
• Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
• Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
• Republican Tennessee State Representative, Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). He committed suicide before he could be prosecuted.
• Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran.
• Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
• Republican candidate Richard Gardner,a Nevada State Representative, admitted to molesting his two daughters.
• Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner had been convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. when the Republican Party, knowing of these crimes, put him on the ballot.
• Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
• Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
• Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
• Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.With his political career over, he went to work in the hard-core pornography industry for Platinum X Pictures, owned by his daughter, porn starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany Schwarz).
• Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall,director of Faith & Family Alliance, (a Christian Coalition spin off), former student of Pat Robertson's Regent University, member of Ralph Reed's inner circle who funneled money to from lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Reed, was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
  
• Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
• Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
• Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
• Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl, and his sentences added up to 126 years in prison.  He allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women. (Investigators estimated that he spent up to $5,000,000 on prostitutes).
• Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins of Asbury Park, New Jersey plead guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
• Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General, prosecuted the famous Bowers vs. Hardwick case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair.
• John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion columnist and GOP fund raiser. He lost his position after it was revealed that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then encouraged her to abort his child.
• Jeff Gannon, Partisan blogger with no journalism credentials was allowed into Bush's Press conferences using a fake name so that he could ask fake questions to which Bush could give fake answers. This phony reporter's real name is James Guckert and his real job is gay prostitution.
• Dr. W. David Hager, Bush appointee, member of Focus on the Family's Physician Resource Council, player in movement to ban the morning-after-pill. Had an adulterous affair, before divorcing his wife he sexually abused her, including sodomizing her in her sleep.
• John Hathaway, Republican Senate candidate, was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
• John Paulk, lied about prowling for gay sex while running a fundamentalist group to cure gays.
• Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos.
• Lou Beres, -Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
• Tom Randall, Republican petition drive manager pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
• Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in "family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit against Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times.
• Matthew Glavin, president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, big player in the Clinton Impeachment, and many anti-gay jihads, has been arrested multiple times for public indecency, one time fondling the crotch of the officer who was arresting him.

Don't let homosexuals destroy the institution of marriage.
    That's a job for "Christian" Republicans politicians:

1. Ronald Reagan – divorced the mother of two of his children (who had been married twice before), to marry Nancy Reagan who bore him a daughter only 7 months after their marriage.
2. Sen. Bob Dole – divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed him through the long recovery from his war wounds.
3. If you think George H.W. Bush was a model of virtue, check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Fitzgerald
4. Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas – divorced.
5. Sen. Lauch Faircloth – divorced.
6. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York – divorced.
7. Sen. John McCain of Arizona – divorced.
8. Sen. John Warner of Virginia – twice divorced (once married to Liz Taylor.).
9. Newt Gingrich – divorced his wife who was dying of cancer.
10. Dick Armey – House Majority Leader – divorced.
11. Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia – Barr, not yet 50 years old, has been married three times.  Barr had the audacity to author and push the "Defense of Marriage Act."  The current joke making the rounds on Capitol Hill is "Bob Barr. . .which marriage are you defending?!?.
12. Rep. Helen Chenoweth of Idaho – divorced.
13. ex-Rep. John Kasich of Ohio – divorced.
14. Rep. Susan Molinari of New York – Republican National Convention Keynote Speaker – divorced.
15. Henry Kissinger – divorced.
16. Gov. George Allen of Virginia – divorced.
17. ex-Gov. John Engler of Michigan – divorced.
18. ex-Gov. Pete Wilson of California – divorced.
19. ex-Gov. John Roland of Connecticut – divorced
    (imprisoned for corruption after resigning in shame).
20. Rudolf Giulliani & latest wife both married three times after two divorces.each.
21. Bernard Kerik, (Giulliani's famous protege and N. Y. City Police Commissioner had two simultaneous adulterous affairs.)
22. George Will – divorced.
23. Rush Limbaugh – Rush (30-pill a day drug addict) and his latest wife, Marta, both married three times after two divorces each.
24. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried.
25. Although clearly the beneficiary of Affirmative Action himself, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been one of its more powerful opponents now that he has become a champion of the white Republican establishment.  And although he is an ultra-Conservative Catholic in most respects where others are concerned, he was uncharacteristicly liberal when it came to his own marriages.  Two years after divorcing the mother of his one child, a Catholic woman whom he had married 13 years earlier, he took a second wife, which Conservative Catholics condemn, at least for those who don't have the prestige that Justice Thomas enjoys.

Now, on the other hand, these are the kinds of
"godless liberals" that the Democratic Party has produced :

1. Calif. Gov. Pat Brown married 72 years when wife died in 2002.
2. Sen. Robert Byrd of W. Va. married almost 69 years when wife died in 2006.
3. Sen. & presidential candidate George McGovern married 64 years as of 2007.
4. Folk Music legend and activist Pete Seeger married 63 years as of 2011.
5. Sen. & presidential candidate John Glenn married 68 years as of 2011.
6. Journalist Walter Cronkite married 64 years when wife died in 2005.
7. Famous campaign finance activist "Granny D" Haddock married 64 years when her husbamd died.
8. Pres. Jimmy Carter married 65 years as of 2011.
9. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum married 63 years, when he died in 2008.
10. Former Attorney General & activist Ramsey Clark married 64 years as of 2011.
11. Actor Ossie Davis was married to Actress Ruby Dee for 57 years when he died in 2005.
12. Sargent Shriver married 56 years when wife Eunice Kennedy died in 2009.
13. Former NY governor Mario Cuomo married 57 years as of 2011.
14. Journalist Bill Moyers married 56 years as of 2010.
15. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg married 57 years as of 2011.
16. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. married 54 years when wife died in 1982.
17. Pres. Harry Truman married 53 years when he died in 1972.
18. Sen. & V.P. Walter Mondale married 53 years when wife died in 2008.
19. Journalist Dan Rather married 54 years as of 2011.
20. Actor & Activist Alan Alda married 54 years as of 2011.
21. Billionaire Warren Buffett married 52 years when 1st wife died in 2004.
22. V.P. Henry Wallace married 51 years when he died in 1965.
23. Sen. Wayne Morse married 50 years when he died in 1974* (see note below).
24. Sen. Harry Reid married 52 years as of 2011.
25. Speaker Nancy Pelosi married 51 years as of 2011.
26. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall married 48 years to 2nd wife when he died in 1993.
27. Actor & Activist Martin Sheen married 50 years as of 2011.
28. Sen. Pat Moynihan married 46 years when he died in 2001.
29. Sen. Patrick Leahy married 48 years as of 2011.
30. Comedian Bob Newhart married 48 years as of 2011.
31. Gov. Michael Dukakis (presidential candidate) married 48 years as of 2011.
32. House Leader Charlie Rangel married 47 years as of 2011.
33. The noted liberal parents of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Robert & Gloria Kagan, had been married 44 years when Gloria died in 2008 (in her sixties).
34. Former NY governor Al Smith married 44 years when he and his wife died in 1944.
35. Speaker Dick Gephardt married married 45 years as of 2011.
36. Jody Powell (Jimmy Carter's press secretary) married 43 years when he died at age 65 in 2009.
37. Sen. Hubert Humphrey married 42 years when he died in 1978.
38. Journalist Daniel Schorr married 43 years when he died in 2010.
39. Comedian Billy Chrystal married 44 years as of 2011.
40. Sen. John D. Rockerfeller married 44 years as of 2011.
41. Sen. Tom Harkin married 43 years as of 2011.
42. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt married 40 years when he died in 1945.
43. Sen. Paul Simon married 40 years when his 1st wife died in 2000.
44. Pres. Lyndon Johnson married 39 years when he died in 1973.
45. Sen. Paul Wellstone married 39 years when he & his wife died tragically in 2002.
46. Sec. Robert Reich married 38 years as of 2011.
47. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. married 36 years to 2nd wife when he died in 2007.
48. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin married 35 years as of 2010.
49. Sen. Al Franken married 33 years as of 2010.
50. Sen. and V.P. Joe Biden 32 years as of 2010 to 2nd wife after his first wife and two daughters were killed in a tragic auto accident. His family is so important to him that all those years in the Senate he had no home in D.C., but spent 4 hours in travel each work day to and from his home in Delaware to D.C.
51. Journalist Tim Russert was married 25 years to his one wife before dying prematurely at age 58.
52. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had been married 18 years when he was killed in 1968, leaving behind 11 children.
53. As of 2009, the Weathermen co-founders, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, had been together for about 38 years. Notes:

    Wayne Morse has been rated as one of the most liberal U.S. senators ever. "In high school, he developed his relationship with Mildred "Midge" Downie, whom he had known since third grade, and who was class valedictorian and class vice-president the same year Morse was president." Although a Republican when first elected to the Senate in 1945, he gave the Democrats the majority by joining them in 1955.

Republican Dishonor Roll in brief :

• Senator John Ensign (R-NV.)
• Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.),
• Senator Larry Craig (R-ID.)
• Senator David Vitter (R-LA)
• Senator Bob Packwood, (R-OR),
• Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC)
• GOP senatorial candidate
      from Conn., Philip Giordano.
• Rep. Mark Foley, (R-Fl.)
• Rep. Newt Gingrich.
• Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) .
• Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA)
• Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA).
• Rep. Dan Burton (R-Indiana).
• Rep. Charles Canady (R-Fl),.

• Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX).
• Rep. John Peterson (R-PA).
• Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID).
• Rep. J. C. Watts (R-Ok):
• Rep. John Schmitz (R-Orange County, CA),
• Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA) .
• Rep. Donald "Buz" Lukens (R-OH) .
• Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
• Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
• Rep. Dan Crane (R-IL)
• Rep. Robert Bauman (R-MD)
• Rep. Sue Myrick,(R-NC)
• Rep. Ed Schrock,(R-VA)
• Rep. Vito Fossela, (R-NY)
• Chip Pickering, (R-Miss.)