The NY-26 Election. Have fun but keep your shirt on.

[cinyc]

A Republican politician in a sex scandal?
whoda thunk?

I know it's not as if Democrats are ever involved in any.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_edwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_clinton

None of those guys actually resigned, so if they didn't resign it never hurt them and never happened.  David Vitter is still standing, its all just tabloid gossip, lol

Gary Hart dropped out of the 1988 presidential race after his affair became public.  

The media didn't expose John Edwards' infidelities until after he was no longer a candidate for office.

[milhouse24]

Its pretty much assured that more is involved especially since craigslist dating often goes hand and hand with escort services, etc.

why would an escort service care what Mr Lee looked like without a shirt on?

Let's assume that whatever this is for Chris Lee, it's probably not the very first time he's ventured outside of his marriage.

Oh no, I see a Tiger Woods booty parade coming!

[milhouse24]

A Republican politician in a sex scandal?
whoda thunk?

I know it's not as if Democrats are ever involved in any.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_edwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_clinton

None of those guys actually resigned, so if they didn't resign it never hurt them and never happened.  David Vitter is still standing, its all just tabloid gossip, lol

Gary Hart dropped out of the 1988 presidential race after his affair became public.  

The media didn't expose John Edwards' infidelities until after he was no longer a candidate for office.

But Hart was running for a new office, he never resigned his seat because of the scandal.  He just lost the election.  Should have waited until the next election and let the voters decide.

[cinyc]

A Republican politician in a sex scandal?
whoda thunk?

I know it's not as if Democrats are ever involved in any.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_edwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_clinton

None of those guys actually resigned, so if they didn't resign it never hurt them and never happened.  David Vitter is still standing, its all just tabloid gossip, lol

Gary Hart dropped out of the 1988 presidential race after his affair became public.  

The media didn't expose John Edwards' infidelities until after he was no longer a candidate for office.

But Hart was running for a new office, he never resigned his seat because of the scandal.  He just lost the election.  Should have waited until the next election and let the voters decide.

Hart didn't have a seat to resign from at the time - he didn't run for Senate a third time and held no elective office at the time the scandal broke.  Hart withdrew from the Presidential race immediately after the scandal broke.  He tried to reenter the race later, but got crushed in New Hampshire.

More recently, New York Congressman Eric Massa, a Democrat, resigned after news of his homosexual sexual harassment scandal broke.   Democratic New York Governor Spitzer resigned when the "Client Number 9" hooker scandal broke.  And New Jersey Governor McGreevey, also a Democrat, resigned after it was learned he was cheating on his wife with a man who he had put in charge of state Homeland Security despite being totally unqualified for the job.

Sex scandals affect both parties.  Some resign.  Some do not.

[HAnnA MArin County]

A Republican politician in a sex scandal?
whoda thunk?

I know it's not as if Democrats are ever involved in any.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_edwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_clinton

Well, there's a difference when Democrats do it (other than when Democrats do it that most of the time it's with women). Republicans (not all, but most) have taken the high road and have embraced the "family values" and claimed to be the good/moral/Christian party and have painted the Democrats as nothing but a bunch of immoral hippies who support the homosexual agenda and want to destroy the "sanctity of marriage," so it seems only appropriate for the Republicans to get all the glory when this happens because it exposes their hypocrisy of not practicing what they preach.

When you campaign on being the party that supports "traditional marriage" and how homosexuality is a sin/abomination that "threatens" your marriage, when you're caught committing a sin that endangers your own marriage, it just makes you a hypocrite, and the public has a right to know. Committing adultery is not only a sin but it's breaking one of the Ten Commandments, and divorce is also an abomination in the same respect as homosexuality, according to their interpretations of the Bible. Why condone one sin and not another? From my understanding of the Bible, no one sin is greater in the eyes of God than another. Hypocrisy at its best.

Lee just adds to the ever-growing list of family values Republicans to have their hypocrisy exposed: Souder, Ensign, Sanford, Craig, Foley, someone help me I've lost track. Oh, he wasn't a politician per se but that one anti-gay doctor who was caught with an escort from RentBoy.com. I guess we could also include Ted Haggard in here, too.

Focus on your damn family before you try to tell me how to raise mine or what mine should consist of.

But yeah, John Edwards is a sleazeball for what he did to Elizabeth. No excusing that. And poor Bill. The man got one blowjob and the Republicans still vilify him for that. Hillary forgave him; why can't you? I don't know who the other two guys are; I think they may be before my time. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I find it amusing he claimed to be 39. Reminds me of the lady at my job in college who jokingly claimed to be "39 and some months." Guess it's not just women who lie about their ages like that at that point.

[minionofmidas]

That was disappointingly quick.

[Lunar]

 it'd be interesting for any Republican or Democratic State Senator to run for this race, because if they won, they could throw off the balance of the State Senate.

[Smash255]

it'd be interesting for any Republican or Democratic State Senator to run for this race, because if they won, they could throw off the balance of the State Senate.

Kennedy is the only State Senate Democrat even close to the district, his home isn't in NY-26, and I don't even think any of his State Senate district is in NY-26/

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it'd be interesting for any Republican or Democratic State Senator to run for this race, because if they won, they could throw off the balance of the State Senate.

Kennedy is the only State Senate Democrat even close to the district, his home isn't in NY-26, and I don't even think any of his State Senate district is in NY-26/

California State Senator Tom McClintock got elected to a House seat hundreds of miles from his district.

[RI]

That was disappointingly quick.

He gets that a lot.

[Guderian]

Cantor and McCarthy need to have this talk with all the horny members of the caucus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5sLNT5-_c

[Lunar]

it'd be interesting for any Republican or Democratic State Senator to run for this race, because if they won, they could throw off the balance of the State Senate.

Kennedy is the only State Senate Democrat even close to the district, his home isn't in NY-26, and I don't even think any of his State Senate district is in NY-26/

Word, I was just being fair. 


http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1765-quinn-says-he-would-ldwork-wellrd-for-lee-seat-corwin-also-seen-as-frontrunner.html

[Sam Spade]

it'd be interesting for any Republican or Democratic State Senator to run for this race, because if they won, they could throw off the balance of the State Senate.

Kennedy is the only State Senate Democrat even close to the district, his home isn't in NY-26, and I don't even think any of his State Senate district is in NY-26/

California State Senator Tom McClintock got elected to a House seat hundreds of miles from his district.

It was also very GOP-leaning CD.

[Platypus]

Coincidentally, my uncle's name is Chris Lee.

[Lunar]

Good, Powers is considering a run: http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/voteup/2011/02/10/powers-making-calls/

If the GOP avoids a top-tier candidate, he could have a shot.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Well, that was pretty unentertaining.  I was hoping for some drama before he stepped down.

[redcommander]

Any chance that more info about his alleged partying with female lobbyists comes out? This is probably the least scandalous sex scandal to come out of Washington in a long time.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, I hope so. Even better if it emerged that he'd raped a donkey or something. Because otherwise this is dull and I am bored. I demand that politics be my entertainment, God damn it! If there's a sex scandal it simply must be utterly revolting! Else, what's the point?

[Lunar]

Yeah, I hope so. Even better if it emerged that he'd raped a donkey or something. Because otherwise this is dull and I am bored. I demand that politics be my entertainment, God damn it! If there's a sex scandal it simply must be utterly revolting! Else, what's the point?

I mean, if you have to have a scandal, might as well be an amusing or sexy one, especially opposed to ones that are actually criminal

[Lunar]

A SCOZZAFAVA SITUATION IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE

http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/02/gop-and-tea-party-clash-in-ny-26/#more-30217

[SvenssonRS]

A SCOZZAFAVA SITUATION IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE

http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/02/gop-and-tea-party-clash-in-ny-26/#more-30217

The NY Tea Party are about as smart as a bucket of retarded pies, apparently.

[Skill and Chance]

Hmmmm.... A D win here would seriously shake up redistricting, wouldn't it?  Beyond that, I hope the Tea Party learns its lesson soon.

[Sam Spade]

The problem, and the article notes this, is that the Tea Party isn't going to get the Conservative line if Corwin is chosen (as opposed to Maziarz or Robach).  Which leaves them trying to either create their own line again or buy the Independence party line (as that seems to be the way to get it these days)

Seems to me like the Tea Party people are just asleep at the switch.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

A SCOZZAFAVA SITUATION IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE

http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/02/gop-and-tea-party-clash-in-ny-26/#more-30217

Before too many Democrats here start putting their hands down their pants, Corwin isn't exactly a liberal Republican.