John Edwardsgetting woman pregnant who was not his wife

Barney Frankran a prostitution service from home

Wayne Hayshired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts

Gerry Studdscensured for sexual relationship with underage male page

Gary Condit sleeping with Chandra Levy (not his wife) later suspect in her disappearance

Gary Hart sleeping with Donna Rice, no relation to his wife

Mel Reynoldswas convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old

Ted Kennedydriving home from stag party drunk killed woman who was not his wife

Fred Richmond arrested for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old

Brock Adamsforced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape

Daniel Inouye accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment

Bill Clintonaka-GREAT SATAN, aka-first black president-getting blow jobs in White House from woman who was not his wife

“…a selection of well-researched and historical clips?” More research NEEDED!

All DEMOcrats

Aazrk,
I don’t think Stewart really had time in that clip to cover all the political sex scandals through the years. His piece was not limited to criticism of Republicans. In fact, he took on the conservative’s favorite great satan of the House, Nancy Pelosi. I think Stewart, in his way, was asking for accountability for all improper behavior. Though, of course, an accusation does not mean that someone was guilty, and that is why they have investigations.

Would you agree that our politicians, on both sides of the isle, are at least partisan and inconsistent, if not hypocritical, in how they view such scandals? And that was Stewart’s point.

It’s not even up for debate that Republicans have more sex scandals. And many of Azhartkant’s examples are decades old, which just points out how much you are grasping at straws.

The real difference in these cases, besides the “liberal media” fascination with Democratic scandals, is that Democrats are always pressured to resign, while Republicans get a pass in only the most egregious cases, like Foley. Usually this is because these dirty Republicans reside in Republican strongholds, where most voters more closely mimic the blind partisanship and head-in-the-sand stupidity of those like Arzharkant and Democrats for the most part don’t have the seething, blind, hypocritical constant outrage that Republicans do towards Democrats in similar situations.

Since 1998, the year of the Clinton scandal, here’s a partial list of Republican sex scandals:

Mark Sanford
John Ensign
Vito Fossella
Larry Craig
David Vitter
Newt Gingrich
Mark Foley
Don Sherwood
Rudy Guiliani
Henry Hyde
Dan Burton
Helen Chenoweth

Most were not forced from office, nor did most of them even suffer political fallout.

In other words, if you never claim to have morals in the first place, you can’t be accused of acting immorally.