DC Pols Have Forgotten More Sex Than You'll Ever Have in Your Whole Lifetime!
Via the excellent FishBowl DC comes a pointer to this cheeky reminder from FamousDC about a decade's worth of sex scandals (including former-future Washington Mayor Marion Berry's "bitch set me up" tryst, which technically happened in the Pleistocene Era).
Future-former Sen. John Ensign's recent revelation of an-on-the-clock affair clocks in at number 10. Read deep the gathering gloom, which includes a number of scandals I am happy to say that I either never heard of at all or have successfully repressed (e.g., the Rep. Vito Fossella love child bit, Rep. Tim Mahoney [?], Rep. Don Sherwood [??]).
A snippet:
… 4. Sen. John Edwards + Cici from Poison
Ok, so the woman just looked like Cici from Poison but the former Presidential candidate was caught leaving their love nest by the National Enquirer.
Considering the fact that his wife has cancer and his family is generally adorable, it's no real surprised that we have not heard from the boy wonder since.
3. Former Governor Elliot Spitzer + $$$$$ Hooker
The plate on the door of the Mayflower Hotel where Spitizer and his lady friend would rendezvous has been stolen several times.
This scandal had everything … hookers, hypocrisy and weird, weird sex….
Why do we care about the sex lives of the powerful? Mostly, we don't, because it's bad enough looking at these guys (and with the rare exception of someone like former Sen. Helen Chenoweth, it always seems to be guys) with their clothes on, much less imagining forming the beast with two, three, or more backs. But in the cases of folks such as Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the rampant hypocrisy brings home the point that most of these people can't run their own lives, much less yours and mine. So there's a lesson to be learned here: Don't do this at home, kids. Or, if you do, then don't run for office. And if you do run for office and manage to get elected, don't moralize in a way that is grossly at odds with your lifestyle.