Tag: Family Values

Better Make Sure There’s a Lock on that Closet

Filed in National by on December 16, 2011 5 Comments

It’s happened again to another RWNJ rethuglican politician. Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, Mississippi, “who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 on a conservative, family-values platform” according to the Commercial Appeal, has been forced out of the closet over receipts uncovered in a criminal investigation over misused expenses. The receipts included “thousands of dollars […]

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World’s Shortest Sex Scandal

Filed in National by on February 9, 2011 18 Comments
World’s Shortest Sex Scandal

GOP Representative Christopher Lee resigned 3 hours after Gawker revealed flirtatious emails he sent to a woman he found on Craigslist.

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Reality TV Freak Show

Filed in National by on August 13, 2010 16 Comments

Forget Kate Plus Eight Minus One.  There’s a new game in town and it’s called If We Keep Having Babies Maybe We Won’t Get Canceled. But now the couple – who only recently brought baby Josie home after being hospitalized for six months as she recovered from a perforated bowel and rare digestive problems – […]

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California Rejects Religious Conservative Judges

Filed in National by on June 9, 2010 3 Comments

Judges from a slate of candidates of the “Better Courts Now” organization lost in the California elections yesterday. The group was formed to bring a more religious conservative viewpoint to the courts.

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Things Aren’t Always ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Concerning Family Values

Filed in National by on March 12, 2010 6 Comments
Things Aren’t Always ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Concerning Family Values

The problem with social conservatism is that it backs good people into a corner, whether it’s Utah leading the nation in pornography consumption or the litany of Republican politicians who dip their wick outside their marriage bed. As much as we might enjoy the downfall of hypocrites like Sanford and other self-righteous politicians from the […]

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More Family Values

Filed in National by on March 4, 2010 24 Comments

How many prominent California Prop 8 supporters have been shown to be huge hypocrites? I’m losing count. There’s the state legislator who bragged about his lobbyist mistress, and Miss California’s sex tapes and now there’s this: It’s no good for a family values Republican to get picked up on a DUI. But substantially worse to […]

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Check Out My Family Values

Filed in National by on January 10, 2010 19 Comments
Check Out My Family Values

A PPP poll released last night showed family values teabagger candidate Scott Brown ahead in the MA-Sen special election. While Democrats wring their hands and try to work up some enthusiasm in their electorate, this picture that Scott Brown did for Cosmopolitan resurfaced: Brown was just 22 when he won Cosmo’s “America’s Sexiest Man” competition. […]

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Another Cheatin’ Politician

Filed in National by on December 5, 2009 17 Comments

It’s a Democrat this time – Max Baucus. Baucus was in the news quite a bit this summer and fall because he heads the Senate Finance Committee. He also indulged in an affair. The details of the affair actually aren’t that scandalous, Baucus was separated when the relationship started and he and his wife subsequently […]

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Sanford Faces Ethics Violations

Filed in National by on November 24, 2009 10 Comments

Everyone’s favorite Appalachian Trail hiker is not out of hot water yet. South Carolina’s State Ethics Board has released a report, charging Sanford with 37 separate violations: The civil charges, which carry a maximum $74,000 in fines, stem from a three-month investigation by the state ethics commission and could be pivotal in a push by […]

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God Invented Saline

Filed in National by on November 13, 2009 2 Comments

You have to say one thing for the world’s most persecuted Christian hypocrite (in her own mind) – she just keeps on going, seemingly undaunted by the scandals that dog her. Miss Opposite Marriage gave an interview for Christianity Today to explain herself (from Huffington Post): She also answers a question about her topless photos […]

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Republicans Want To Get Government Out Of Our Lives*

Filed in National by on October 13, 2009 19 Comments

*exceptions may apply Oklahoma is perhaps the wingnuttiest state in the union. This is the state that has elected geniuses like James Inhofe and Tom Coburn to the U.S. Senate. So, it’s probably no surprise that Oklahoma is leading the way in finding new ways to shame and punish women who have unapproved sex. On […]

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Big Trouble For John Ensign

Filed in National by on October 3, 2009 7 Comments

This summer John Ensign held a press conference and admitted to engaging in an affair with one of his campaign aides, Cynthia Hampton. Both Ensign and Hampton were married and Hampton and her husband both worked for Senator Ensign. At first it just looked your average hypocritical family values Republican and I stated that I […]

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Whose Values?

Filed in National by on September 18, 2009 3 Comments

Talking Points Memo looks at the schedule for the Value Voters Summit and finds these breakout sessions: “Speechless – Silencing The Christians” “Thugocracy – Fighting the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy” “Defunding Planned Parenthood” “Activism and Conservatism: Fit to a Tea (Party)” “The Threat of Illegal Immigration” “Obamacare: Rationing Your Life Away” “Marriage: Why It’s Worth […]

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