Yet another GOPer caught in sex scandal and misuse of government property

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At least he resigned. The US Senator using a donor's plane to visit underage prostitutes is still serving
 
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lawgator1 said:
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigns after late-night calls exposed - U.S. News

No doubt he's one of these Republicans bemoaning government waste, as he uses his government-issued cell phone to make thousands of calls. Probably also whined quite a bit about family values.
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Wait, do I understand correctly that you have no issue with the fact he was committing adultery with 4 women but are concerned that he may have incurred a higher than expected phone bill? Chances are the phone contract was for unlimited minutes so there probably wasn't any government waste at all, just moral/ethical issues, which, I guess, are okay with you?
 
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If he were just a regular guy, we'd probably be slapping him on the back and saying congrats. That said I really don't care who he is or was sleeping with.
 
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dreVol said:
yet you're silent on sen. menendez...
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What is there to say? If he did it, he ought to be gone. Pretty disgusting.

Wonder if you can find Menendez quoted on how sex trafficking is bad, and yet he did it. Then you'd have a good comparison to this guy.

You see, Lt.Gov. Sheehy ran on a platform of family values. He said he was a conservative. He was heir apparent to a conservative governorship. Meanwhile, he was engaged int he very behavior and waste of tax payer dollars that he criticized.

If Menendez did what he is accused of, he's a bad guy. But unless he ran on a platform, you know, directly contradictory to what was in fact his life, they are not comparable.
 
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lawgator1 said:
What is there to say? If he did it, he ought to be gone. Pretty disgusting.

Wonder if you can find Menendez quoted on how sex trafficking is bad, and yet he did it. Then you'd have a good comparison to this guy.

You see, Lt.Gov. Sheehy ran on a platform of family values. He said he was a conservative. He was heir apparent to a conservative governorship. Meanwhile, he was engaged int he very behavior and waste of tax payer dollars that he criticized.

If Menendez did what he is accused of, he's a bad guy. But unless he ran on a platform, you know, directly contradictory to what was in fact his life, they are not comparable.
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menendez has to have run on a platform that expressly cites underage prostitution as reprehensible to be criticized for banging underage prostitutes?

so not expressly rejecting an act is an implicit approval of said act. gotcha.
 
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lawgator1 said:
If Menendez did what he is accused of, he's a bad guy. But unless he ran on a platform, you know, directly contradictory to what was in fact his life, they are not comparable.
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So he wasn't against the use of illegal immigrant sex offenders per se so using one on his campaign staff was not hypocritical?

He wasn't about ethical actions as a Senator so taking gifts against those rules was not being hypocritical?

Seems like the lesson is to be pro-crime, adultery, etc. then you aren't really in the same ball park
 
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lawgator1 said:
If Menendez did what he is accused of, he's a bad guy. But unless he ran on a platform, you know, directly contradictory to what was in fact his life, they are not comparable.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've never seen a speech, heard a statement or known a specific policy position for the Lt. Governor of Nebraska so that you'd have the slightest idea whether there's hypocrisy or not.

....and who really cares? Dereliction of duty is dereliction of duty regardless of party.
 
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dreVol said:
menendez has to have run on a platform that expressly cites underage prostitution as reprehensible to be criticized for banging underage prostitutes?

so not expressly rejecting an act is an implicit approval of said act. gotcha.
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No.

But people on here in response to the hypocrisy of the Nebraska GOPer are citing to Menendez and its not the same thing.

What Menendez is accused of is far worse. But it misses the mark in terms of hypocrisy.
 
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GAVol said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've never seen a speech, heard a statement or known a specific policy position for the Lt. Governor of Nebraska so that you'd have the slightest idea whether there's hypocrisy or not.

....and who really cares? Dereliction of duty is dereliction of duty regardless of party.
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The hypocrisy thing has to be one of the most tiresome political accusations. All humans are guilty of hypocrisy at some time or another - particularly, all politicians are guilty.
 
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I guess Coulter was right about something:

"The reason any conservative’s failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It’s an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites."
 
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volinbham said:
The hypocrisy thing has to be one of the most tiresome political accusations. All humans are guilty of hypocrisy at some time or another - particularly, all politicians are guilty.
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No shortage of threads and posts by conservatives accusing liberals of it. I guess when you use the phrase "one of the most tiresome political accusations," you mean to add "when levied correctly against a Republican."
 
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