What is up with all of the Governors ...

[scooterbug44]

I think it's a combo of the moral ambiguity common to politricks and "political" marriages and too many news shows w/ nothing to report.

 

[RebelRider]

This seems like a good thread to make my first post.

The real reason is because it's fun and because you keep electing us without "vetting" our past actions.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

I think it's a combo of the moral ambiguity common to politricks and "political" marriages and too many news shows w/ nothing to report.

Good point

 

[Santiago]

The more power (phycial, political, or monetary) the male has, the more testosterone level builds, an congruently there is a greater desire for "risk taking" thrills. It is true of our ancestral apes, and it is true of us at this point in our evolution.

Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with testosterone. Maybe women just like power and money and its them taking the initiative.

 

[hnooe]

Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with testosterone. Maybe women just like power and money and its them taking the initiative.[/quote]

Hmmm...Then they would have had to rename it the "Empresses' " Club, instead of the Emporer's Club.

 

[Chickpea]

Many of you will think I am crazy but I DO NOT CARE what a public official or any of you for that matter do with your private lives AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO VICTIMS AND NO LAWS ARE BROKEN (and obviously Spitzer broke many) - but it is quite hard to legislate morality -it is just too personal.

 

[John R]

Many of you will think I am crazy but I DO NOT CARE what a public official or any of you for that matter do with your private lives AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO VICTIMS AND NO LAWS ARE BROKEN (and obviously Spitzer broke many) - but it is quite hard to legislate morality -it is just too personal.

agreed, let them do what they do. on the other hand, one's leadership ability could be questioned by looking into past performance.

it just seems to be a prerequisite that politicos have some skeletons... sad.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Chickpea, I basically agree with you, but I still don't understand why so many are coming out of the closet on this issue, having press releases about it. I say, "basically," because there is that part of me that thinks that cheating on spouses is dishonest and disloyal, and if they will cheat on someone they've pledged to love the remainder of their lives, why should we expect them not to screw us over, too?

 

[RebelRider]

They really have a history of "screwing the public" whether they have cheated on a spouse or not. Seems that those who are not currently not identified as "cheaters" have the worst track record.

 

[wrobert]

Chickpea, I basically agree with you, but I still don't understand why so many are coming out of the closet on this issue, having press releases about it. I say, "basically," because there is that part of me that thinks that cheating on spouses is dishonest and disloyal, and if they will cheat on someone they've pledged to love the remainder of their lives, why should we expect them not to screw us over, too?

Ahhhhh...finally someone has put this into a context that makes me understand why I should care. You are right on this SJ. Never thought of it that way. Now if the spouse was okay with the shenanigans that is one thing, but if it was a secret affair, then we should care because of the statement it makes about moral character.