Introduction Ronald Reagan Richard Mellon Scaife Larry Craig David Vitter Dick Morris Ted Haggard Bob Allen Richard Curtis Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana is the classic GOP adulterer: He made his career by fooling feeble-minded voters that he was an adherent to family values — all while engaging in a penchant for sex with prostitutes: […]
Introduction Ronald Reagan Richard Mellon Scaife Larry Craig David Vitter Dick Morris Ted Haggard Bob Allen Richard Curtis When rumors swirled around Capitol Hill in 2004 that a Republican U.S. senator had engaged a stranger in sexual activities in the men’s room at Union Station in Washington, Larry Craig of Iowa was not on most […]
Introduction Ronald Reagan Richard Mellon Scaife Larry Craig David Vitter Dick Morris Ted Haggard Bob Allen Richard Curtis If few politicians have benefited more from the rightwing’s moral superiority pose than Ronald Reagan, perhaps no one has contributed more to it financially than Richard Melon Scaife: Remember him? The cantankerous, reclusive 75-year-old billionaire who’s spent […]
Earlier this month our list of the top 10 GOP adulterers created a bit of stir. Now Steve Benen, writing in the Washington Monthly, has a related story on the three men on our list who are running for the GOP nomination for president in 2008, including the two frontrunners, Sen. John McCain and former […]
The traditional media may be interested almost exclusively in the sex lives of Democratic politicians, but on the hypocrisy index, it is hard to score higher than Republicans pontificating about saving the institution of marriage while so many of their leaders are serial and long-time adulterers: 1. President George H.W. Bush allegedly had an LTR […]
This week the Republicans who run the nation are undertaking another cynical attack on the issue of gay marriage. As a wedge issue that enflames the GOP’s homobigot base, same sex marriage has occasionally returned dividends. In fact, conventional wisdom has it that an anti-gay initiative on the Ohio ballot in 2004 tipped the state […]
Update May 2016: Google informed us that it considers this photo of the wife of Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for president, to be obscene and ordered us to remove the photo because this page features Google advertising. You can see the full, uncensored photo here. Original story: Now that we have a Republican […]
When asked on KCRW’s “Left, Right and Center” last week whether Pres. Obama should get credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, the show’s resident conservative, Tony Blankley, said this: My view — I wrote this actually in the Washington Times in a clever, I thought, article — that we give Jack Kennedy credit […]
Introduction Ronald Reagan Richard Mellon Scaife Larry Craig David Vitter Dick Morris Ted Haggard Bob Allen Richard Curtis Ronald Reagan rarely speechified about moral issues — it was considered unseemly for presidents back then (imagine that), and the issue of gay marriage hadn’t yet become a guaranteed vote-getter for the GOP. He was nonetheless the […]
It sucks to be a Republican right now. The party that foisted George W. Bush on the country twice has fielded the weakest, most problematic slate of presidential candidates in memory. The Christian nationalist wing is unhappy with the three frontrunners, who have all been labled “moderates” — the GOP code word for “liberal” — […]
To hear Trump talk, he’s the only one
Who’s ever stood trial for crimes he’s done.
But instead of courtroom drama,
We get Trump in his pajamas,
That’s how he earned his new nickname: Don Snoreleone.
