Coming a week after Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) admitted to an extramarital affair, the scandal will impact the Republicans in several ways. First, it further damages the GOP brand, potentially driving away more voters or at least making it more difficult to win back some of those who abandoned the party in the past two elections. Second, it could disillusion social and religious conservatives — a critically important part of the Republican coalition — who may now wonder whether those who share the Republican label truly share their values. Third, the Sanford saga removes one more new-generation GOP leader from the field of prospective 2012 candidates, adding to doubts about the strength of the party’s bench. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How many Republicans are there in the country? Two people admit to affairs and that’s the end of the party? Funny that they didn’t predict the end of the Democrat Party when John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer was busted.<\/p>\n
As our reader, that Disgruntled former IVAW Member said, Democrats don’t expect their politicians to be the least bit moral – doesn’t that say something about their party right there? No, obviously not. They use the excuse that “Well, the Republicans are the family values party.” When was the last time a Republican candidate mentioned family values? <\/p>\n
While it’s true that I won’t vote for any candidate of any party who cheats on their families, it’s not because I’m a “family values” voter – if a man’s wife can’t trust him to come home every night and fill his shoes as a father and husband, why should I trust him to do what he says he’ll do in elected office?<\/p>\n
It’s too bad that all voters don’t hold their candidates to a standard of truth and faith. Maybe politics would change if we tolerated a little less of the lying and cheating. But, since Democrats expect their politicians to be corrupt, there won’t be much chance of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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