I would add that Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell both said that the personal moral behavior of the president mattered when that guy (Clinton) was in the White House. In 2016 they both endorsed Trump giving him a free pass.
She didn't have an affair when she was married. As far as Willie Brown is concerned at the time of her affair with him he had been separated from his wife for an extended period of time and only remained legally married to her so that she could have access to his health insurance.
I suppose that’s true, but I would argue that was still in a different era when both parties professed that sort of thing mattered. Reasonable folks can disagree on why, but I think the bar really lowered in the 90s, and now adultery only matters in terms of who people vote for if there are aggravating circumstances. In John Edwards’ case, I think what bothered most of his supporters was the fact that his wife was dying of terminal cancer, but there might have been more. I just don’t remember.
I would also add that only one party claims to be the party of Biblical family values and it's not the Democratic party.
If I recall I don't think it was revealed that his wife was dying of terminal cancer until after he dropped out. Another issue was his use of campaign funds to pay the woman with whom he was having the affair supposedly for her services as a campaign videographer. He was later prosecuted (unsuccessfully because his trial ended in a hung jury and the government decided not to retry him) for violation of campaign finance laws based on that stunt.
No, her cancer was well known at the time. I remember when he got caught by media at the hotel where he was meeting his paramour, my first thought was, “So much for playing up the wife’s cancer.” Didn’t he also have an illegitimate daughter with the mistress, or am I thinking of someone else?
You're correct regarding his illegitimate daughter. If I recall he denied paternity at first before admitting it.
Let's also not forget this about Ken Paxton although I guess like his adultery MAGA would consider it a feature rather than a bug. Ken Paxton agrees to community service, paying restitution to avoid trial in securities fraud case HOUSTON — Prosecutors on Tuesday agreed to drop the securities fraud charges facing Attorney General Ken Paxton if he performs 100 hours of community service and fulfills other conditions of a pretrial agreement, bringing an abrupt end to the nearly nine-year-old felony case that has loomed over the embattled Republican since his early days in office. The deal, which landed three weeks before Paxton is set to face trial, also requires him to take 15 hours of legal ethics courses and pay restitution to those he is accused of defrauding more than a decade ago when he allegedly solicited investors in a McKinney technology company without disclosing that the firm was paying him to promote its stock. The amount of restitution totals about $271,000, prosecutor Brian Wice said.
Trump has at least given us moments of levity, like the Clemson burger feast. Even other Republicans cant stand Paxton.
