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M. Maude Lynne is right. Democrats never lie, they only misspeak; but the repugs with polluted puritanical moralists minds try to spin these into lies. Sour former BO supporters, liberal icons like Ed Schultz, and some fellow Democrats with polluted puritanical moralists minds calling for Weiner's resignation.

Repugs say, "If you would lie to cover up your dirtiest sex secrets, you would lie about anything, and therefore you can't be trusted in government." Ridiculous generalization!

"So a favorite right-wing tactic against political nemeses is to ignore entirely the merits and substance of their enemies arguments and try to destroy the messenger. How? Step one is to monitor his sex life and discover something that would embarrass him were it known." The joke on the repugs is, during this monitoring, they catch some of their own in sex scandals. The good thing is that the Democrats defend the Repugs saying "we cannot legislate morality, they do a good job in office, leave them alone!"

"For a vast swath of this country, the sex part will be enough to disqualify the public figure from further public figurehood unless the public figure happens to be a Republican, in which case he can pretend to repent, lay prostrate at Jesus feet, and himself of whatever sexual depravity Satan had fastened to his psyche. " This istrue; you never see a trap setting Republican resign if they are caught in a sex scandal.

"The critical point is that we would all lie about private sex practices we seek not to have known by all humanity. That does not mean we 19d lie about public issues, because public issues, unlike private sex acts, are not things we wish to conceal from public view. To suggest otherwise is almost too idiotic to need rebutting, but pundits suggest otherwise with as much urgency as frequency." Also true. We ALL have behind closed door affairs, secret love children, bang prostitutes at every chance, and make sure that marital fidelity is broken every way we can, but should we get caught we would lie too, don't say you wouldn't.

"(1) your position on war and peace; [I prefer the rear entry position so I my head is up and and I can be aware of attacks by Hitler, Stalin, Attila the Hun, William the Conqueror, people like that, so I can flee rather than fight to protect your lifestyle and family] (2) your position on taxes; [I have to go with rear entry again as this is what paying taxes feels like] (3) your position on cap and trade; [a spoon position where I can wobble the buttplug for the partner's sensual enjoyment](4) your most embarrassing sexual indiscretion.[a cool night on the sands when I was a goat herder] Which one of these things is not like the others? And which one of these might you lie about even if you wouldn 19t lie about any of the others? [I would lie about fleeing rather than fighting cause in my job that would bring torture to me.]

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it all depends upon what you mean by the word liar.

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My favorite headline to date for the social networking scandal involving the Congressman from NY.

"Support among Democrats for Weiner shrivels.