The Republicn facade of "moral values" has certainly served to camouflage rampant
corruption and hypocrisy within their ranks. Most of all, however, it almost entirely masks the disturbing sexual fixation, the subsequent degeneracy and even debauchery which taints many of their private lives.
In my post GOPerversion last week, I began to peel back the layers of pretense and delve into that underlying depravity, revealing it for what it is: A fundamental defect in their worldview. This flaw renders them almost brutally selfish even as it justifies a ruthless seeking of ultimate gratification, whether material or sexual.
Let us now examine more examples of these GOPerverts, that we may come to know our enemy more fully in this current and crucial political debate.
We are approaching ground where, because of its very nature, the mainstream media have been singularly reluctant to tread, even given their penchant for the tabloidization of news. I am convinced, now and forever, that I am doing a public service--not to mention my patriotic duty!--by disseminating this information and by telling the unvarnished truth in the face of the right's choreographed dance of deception. They are the ones who, driven by a foaming fundamentalist faction, have despoiled the discourse with their incessant harping on puritanical moralism and sexual facism. It is their own fanatical obsession that has coarsened the culture...and not the other way around, as they commonly claim. In the face of such gross and blatant hypocrisy, how can I NOT hold them to the self-same standards which they apply to everyone else? While paying pious lip service to morals and scruples and duly-legislated statutes, they somehow believe themselves exempt. Such hubris is part and parcel of their ideology, of course, and it causes them to focus the raw data supplied by their senses through a badly warped lens...and to assume that everyone else does likewise.
I am forced to wonder: How could they have consciously decided to put sex front and center in the discussion when it is an area where they, themselves, cannot bear close inspection? Thus they are the fairest of game. They deliberately chose to make it an issue where it seems to me too personal to EVER become political.
Let me make it clear right now that I have no patience with perversion from Democrats, either. As a matter of fact, I would tolerate it even LESS from anyone on the left because our ideology is supposed to uphold the value of each individual. We're better than that! What I've found in my research is that this is primarily a conservative failing, which leads me to the unalterable conclusion that it has definite, specific connections to their worldview. Acts of sexual humiliation, up to and including rape, always deny the essential humanity of the other person; they are sociopathic in nature and hearken back to a phase of human behavioral development which healthy kids outgrow. Perhaps I find it so upsetting and revolting because this is the very antithesis of love, of which sex should always be a concrete expression.
Let's take a particularly offensive example.
Dr. W. David Hager was a presidential appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administrarion. He once sanctimoniously claimed, "God called me to stand in the gap, not only for others, but regarding ethical and moral issues in our country." (There it is AGAIN! Why do these reprobates invoke God and morals so unfailingly when their own libidos are so twisted?) In his work, this translated into staunch opposition to the 'morning after' pill and he is one of the principal reasons it is still not available in this country. Predictably, he also stood foursquare against abortion and pre-marital sex. Ahh, but AFTER marriage...
You see this fundamentalist fraud was going home at night, after a hard day of meddling in women's reproductive rights, and sodomizing his narcoleptic wife while she was out cold, completely and deeply asleep from the prescription drugs she was taking to treat her unusual condition. Nothing less than marital rape of the most egregious kind from a supposedly God-fearing man. And he even left money on the nightstand after he did it, as though she were a common whore. She became unable to deal with the situation and summarily divorced this sick puppy, despite her own fervent Christian beliefs, in 2002.
Hager's term on the FDA panel ended in June, never to be renewed since these sordid revelations came to light. Praise be! It is a horrible, harrowing story and I urge you to read it for yourself here: http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/051305WB.shtml. Remember: this scum was appointed by our current president.
Incest is not only illegal in every state of the union, it is emphatically prohibited by the Bible in several places: Deuteronomy, Ezekiel and TWICE in Leviticus...that's Old Testament...as well as 1 Corinthians in the New Testament.
Your party of true family values, however, doesn't seem to give two hoots in a high wind about any of that. They apparently missed the memo. Their flagrant disregard for ANY prohibitions is typified by the behavior of former Speaker of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives--and stalwart Republican!--Edison Misla Aldarondo. He was busily raping his own step-daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. Originally arrested for the attempted rape of a 17-year-old friend of the girl after getting both of them drunk, he pleaded guilty to the charge. He was sentenced to 13 years. His step-daughter then issued a complaint against him and, upon investigation, Aldarondo was found guilty again. So when he finishes serving the first sentence, he faces another decade behind bars for the 8-year abuse of the step-daughter, loving the girl just a tad too literally.
A Republican activist and a Christian Coalition leader in South Carolina, Beverly Smith--who is male--admitted to a continuing sexual contact with HIS step-daughter, Susan. (And, yes, sexual congress with step-children is also considered incest.) It is more than likely that this unsavory relationship led to Susan's increasing instability which culminated in her drowning her two sons while they slept in her car in October of 1994.
Washington State GOP leader Paul R. Ingram, of Olympia, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping both his daughters.
Richard Gardner, a Republican from Nevada, was convicted in California for lewd and lascivious behavior with a child, a felony sex crime. The victim was his own 12-year-old daughter. Further investigation led to two additional sex crime convictions, one involving the same daughter and one involving another daughter. Here's a piece of garbage who simply couldn't keep his filthy hands off his own kids!
Carey Lee Cramer produced an anti-Gore commercial for the Bushmonkey's 2000 presidential campaign. It featured a cute little girl, his own 9-year-old step daughter. This RePERVlican was arraigned last month for molesting her and another young relative. Vice is nice...but incest is best.
Nicholas Elizondo, director of the Young Republican Federation, was sentenced to prison for molesting his six-year-old daughter...SIX YEARS OLD!! I guess he sure did love those Young Republicans...
Lastly, we have Earl "Butch" Kimmerling who made quite a name for himself through his dedicated gay-bashing, sort of a forerunner of Rev. Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps. In 2000, this Indiana schoolbus driver successfully led the fight to prevent a gay couple from adopting an eight-year-old girl. He and his wife went on to adopt the girl themselves. Kimmerling, the self-righteous crusader who argued that gay couples could NEVER provide the same healthy environment as heterosexuals...is now behind bars and doing 40 years of hard time for molesting that little girl. THAT's what I mean by GOPerverts: Hypocrisy and sexual deviance all rolled up into one execrable, holier-than-thou package. Finding out things like this makes me wish I could scrub my soul with a wire brush.
And I'm not finished yet...but let's throttle back for just a moment.
Cheating on your spouse is NOT perversion. But it's not fair, it's not ethical and it's not nice. And when you're a Republicn claiming the mantle of "family values," it's sheerest hypocrisy...so I feel entirly justified in taking them to task about it. Adultery is so prevalent these days that it's easy to turn a blind eye to it. Casual sex seems to have become downright nonchalant...and made Jerry Springer a multi-millionare. (Note: I'm not moralizing here or preaching or condemning...merely stating facts. We must all face the consequences of our own actions which is as it should be.) Yet it is an area which the culture-denigrating right will COMPLETELY ignore because their own concept of the marriage vow seems, somehow, less binding than everyone else's. "I do...sometimes." And their own record on adultery--the Seventh Commandment, mind you!--is nothing short of abysmal. Do as I say, not as I do indeed. There is a website which features the Republican Wife Cheating Hall of Fame and lists a whole horde of these 'say one thing, do another' GOP sleaze-meisters. You might stop by and have a look sometime; the list is longer than you think.
I've got a few additions as well. The most recent is married Republican Representative Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania's 10th District, who filed court papers on July 21st, denying his abuse of Cynthia Ore. (Think a 'w' and an 'h' belong in front of that surname??) She's the Maryland woman he tried to strangle in her apartment and with whom he's been having a five-year affair. Other self-admitted or otherwise confirmed GOP adulterers are listed below. (Unlike Turdblossom, I do not include rumors in my writing without identifying them as such; you may be assured of accuracy here.)
Dick Armey, Texas
Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate
Mary Bono, Calif. (Ex wife of Sonny...after Cher)
Christopher Buckley (Son of William F.)
Jim Bunn, Oregon
Jeb Bush, (Governor, Fla.)
Charles Cannady, Fla.
Helen Chenoweth, Idaho (IDAHO???)
John Christensen, Neb.
Dan Crane, Ill.
Paul Crouch, televangelist (Surprise, surprise, surprise.)
Kirk Fordice, Miss.
W. John Hathaway, Maine
Michael Huffington, Calif. (Ex-hubby of Arianna)
Jack Kemp, New York
Henry Kissinger (!!)
Ernie Konnyu, Calif.
Steve LaTourette, Ohio
Bob Livingston, La.
Thatcher Longstreth, Penn.
John McCain, Ariz.
John McKay, Fla.
Bill O'Reilly (Faux News All-Star GOPervert)
Bill Owens, Colo.
John Schmitz, Colo.
Bud Schuster, Penn.
Bill Thomas, Calif.
John Tower, Texas
Sol Wachtler, New York
J.C. Watts, Okla.
S.Vance Wilkens, Virg.
Now let's wind this up with a few quick parting shots of some particularly reprehensible GOPerverts. I would add that this is only a partial list. If you're curious...and have the stomach for it...you can follow the links at the end of this post and get your fill of right-wing reprobates.
Here's a guy who, for me, embodies the very essence of Republican values. May I present Mr. Matthew Glavin, former president of the very conservative Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation. He likes exposing hinmself in public; he's a weenie-wagger. He was apprehended in May of 2000 at the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area on Medlocke Bridge Road by an undercover Federal police officer for, er, handling his hardware. Then he fondled the officer! Yes, you read that correctly--he was feeling up the cops after feeling up himself. And this is NOT the first time that Glavin had been busted for enjoying a spot of open-air masturbation. He had quietly pleaded 'no contest' to charges of public indecency IN THE VERY SAME PLACE back in 1996. They need to lock him up and melt the key; as long as that park's open, he's certain to offend again...
Keola Childs, a male, pleaded guilty of molesting a boy in 1999. He served on the Hawaii City Council as a Republican from 1992-1996.
Conservative fund-raiser Richard A. Delgaudio just finished serving two years' probation for the PRODUCTION of child pornography.
Former GOP mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut, Philip Giordano, was sentenced to 37 years in the penitentiary for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year-old girls. The outraged judge said it was the worst abuse case of which he'd EVER heard.
Mark A. Grethen, long-time right-wing activist and fund-raiser, was supposed to be honored as Republican of the Year by Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia. Seems Grethen was unable to attend the awards ceremony due to a recent conviction for raping six children. His scheduled release date from Deep Meadiow Correctional Facility is Sept. 2024. Republican of the Year, eh?
Merrill Robert Barter, GOP Town Clerk for Boothbay Harbor, Maine, pleaded guilty to molesting a teenage boy on April 8, 1999.
Republican strategist Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from juvenile boys and girls over the Internet. Apparently, any warm, underaged orifice would suffice for this libertine.
Anti-abortionist troublemaker and all around Repervlican wretch, Nicholas Morency, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and the offering of a reward to anyone who would murder an abortion doctor. Pro-life?
Stephen White, also known as "Brother Stephen," demanded a return to 'traditional values' which, for him, included soliciting a 14-year-old boy to perform fellatio on him. Must have meant ancient Greek traditional values.
Activist Marty Glickman, aka "Republican Marty," had heaps of hard words for Bill Clinton during his two terms for what amounts to little more that poor judgement. Marty, on the other hand, was giving money and drugs to underage girls which is strictly illegal. He was charged with four counts of unlawful sexual activity and one count of delivery of LSD.
Legislator Peter Dibble pleaded 'no contest' to having an "inappropriate relationship" with a 13-year-old girl. I leave it to your imaginations as to what the original indictments and charges were before his lawyer maneuvered the plea-bargain.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, described as "a good military man" and "a church goer," was sentenced to 12 years in stir for repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl back in 2001. How do these pious lechers sleep at night??
Randal David Ankeney, anti-abortion activist--another one of THOSE!--was arrested in 2001 on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force (or, in a word, rape), sexual exploitation, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphenalia. The girl in question was 13. After his arrest, a 17-year-old campaign worker charged him with sexual assault. In 2002, he plea-bargained and copped to just attempted sexual assault on a child. If you look up the word 'scumbag' in a dictionary, you'll find it next to his picture.
City Councilman Fred. C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded 'no contest' to raping a 15-year-old-girl after getting her falling-down drunk. No contest to rape, huh?
Here's what these GOPerverts are all about: Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right-wing conservative talk show host, promotes family values (but is estranged from her mother), opposes birth control (but has had her tubes tied), encourages saving oneself for marriage (but admits to pre-marital sex), fiercely opposes adultery (but slept with a married man while married herself), refutes divorce (but is divorced and remarried), and has posed for nude photographs which are available online (but are not very interesting). Get the picture now?
Last, but most definitely not least, George Roche III, a horny hypocrite if one ever drew breath, resigned as president of ultra-conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan. You see, on the morning of Octpber 17, 2000, his son--George IV--along with wife Lissa visited the 64-year-old patriarch in the hospital where he was being treated for diabetes. While her astonished husband looked on, Lissa admitted that she and the elder Roche had been doing the horizontal mambo for 19 of the 21 years of their marriage. All the time he had been espousing 'family values' at the college, the old wanker was banging his son's wife for two decades. After this startling confession, Lissa went home, got a .38 and blew her brains out on the campus grounds. These few sentences cannot posibly do justice to this hideously convoluted and lurid story. You can find all the rest of the details here: http://archive.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/19/hillsdale/print.html
Enough. Go take a shower and get out in the last of the season's sunshine...and perhaps you might think about working in your spare time to help defeat any and all Republicans in upcoming elections. On general principle. Angel Of Mercy would consider it a personal favor and a much-needed public service.
Some of the material for this post and my last originated at the following sites:
http://www.armchairsubversive.com
http://quinnell.us/politics/family.html
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Republican_Values
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/ammunition.htm