Comments on: NY can’t catch a break. Paterson admits to affair?! http://www.neoconnews.com/2008/03/17/ny-cant-catch-a-break-paterson-admits-to-affair/ An entertaining take on the world's absurd political news. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:50:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Neocon http://www.neoconnews.com/2008/03/17/ny-cant-catch-a-break-paterson-admits-to-affair/#comment-667 Neocon Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:35:21 +0000 http://www.neoconnews.com/2008/03/17/ny-cant-catch-a-break-paterson-admits-to-affair/#comment-667 I have no argument with you there- allowing an addendum that blatant ethical hypocrisy deserves to be called out on either side, even if it doesn't rise to the level of a criminal charge. As far as Paterson is concerned, at this time it isn't clear if any laws were violated. You don't see me posting anything about celebrity gossip, and I'm not going to write any follow up posts to this unless it is shown he diverted campaign funds for his trysts. The serendipity of two governors, one replacing the other, admitting within a few days to extramarital affairs was also quite an event. I have no argument with you there- allowing an addendum that blatant ethical hypocrisy deserves to be called out on either side, even if it doesn’t rise to the level of a criminal charge. As far as Paterson is concerned, at this time it isn’t clear if any laws were violated. You don’t see me posting anything about celebrity gossip, and I’m not going to write any follow up posts to this unless it is shown he diverted campaign funds for his trysts. The serendipity of two governors, one replacing the other, admitting within a few days to extramarital affairs was also quite an event.

]]> By: A true conservative http://www.neoconnews.com/2008/03/17/ny-cant-catch-a-break-paterson-admits-to-affair/#comment-666 A true conservative Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:17:04 +0000 http://www.neoconnews.com/2008/03/17/ny-cant-catch-a-break-paterson-admits-to-affair/#comment-666 McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while, according to The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, “aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.” McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife’s family money. In 2000, McCain managed to deflect media questioning about his first marriage with a deft admission of responsibility for its failure. Newt Gingrich who cheated on two wives (including an adulterous affair with an intern-now his wife-one during the course of the Clinton impeachment) and served his first wife with divorce papers as she lay in a hospital bed suffering with cancer while engaging in an adulterous affair with the woman who became his second wife. And,of course, there is Ted Haggard who patronized a gay prostitute while having weekly telephone conversations with President Bush and leading the fight against gay marriage. And there is Larry Craig-and on and on and on. Maybe we should just mind our own business like good conservatives and keep the government out of of issues in people's private lives that violate no laws. McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while, according to The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, “aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.” McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife’s family money. In 2000, McCain managed to deflect media questioning about his first marriage with a deft admission of responsibility for its failure.

Newt Gingrich who cheated on two wives (including an adulterous affair with an intern-now his wife-one during the course of the Clinton impeachment) and served his first wife with divorce papers as she lay in a hospital bed suffering with cancer while engaging in an adulterous affair with the woman who became his second wife. And,of course, there is Ted Haggard who patronized a gay prostitute while having weekly telephone conversations with President Bush and leading the fight against gay marriage. And there is Larry Craig-and on and on and on.

Maybe we should just mind our own business like good conservatives and keep the government out of of issues in people’s private lives that violate no laws.

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