By the way – how does it feel being a mouthpiece? No substance – just howling because someone of the opposite party got into trouble.
Posted By Phil Chicago, Ill : November 1, 2007 3:42 pm "

Gee Phil, maybe these characters have told me how to live my life by making laws that tell me what's moral and what's not, what I can and can't do if you don't understand. Maybe if they would set an example and live what they preach we could go along with it or at least understand, but the hypocrisy of these guys is just plain nuts. Oh and by the way I am not a "mouthpeice" for the Dems I personally feel that is the biggest problem with our country. You have to be one or the other.

Are you saying that my RIGHTS are not as equally important as yours due to my sexual orientation??

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Did Rep. Richard Curtis admit he is gay? Did Sen. Larry Craig admit it? Did McCain's Florida campaign co-chairman State Senator Bob Allen admit anything? Did Dennis Hastert do anything about Mark Foley? Craig. Hastert and Sen. David Vitters are still in office.

Yes, there are jerks on both sides. However, it is only wishful thinking to want to believe that it is equal on both sides. Take a count of all the sexual morality hypocrites and see how close it is. Even Ronald Reagan and Fred Thompson had to marry pregnant girlfriends.

2008 the best motion picture award goes to "THE GOP DRAGS ON"_

A very cheap shot, Neill. I should bill you for the electricity that it took to download your comment.

Those are Republican family values for you! Just ask Mark Foley or Larry Craig, among many others who have not (yet) hit the front page with their antics.

I can't speak for Rob, but the Republican lawmakers sure are telling me how to live my life. They start by telling me I can't marry my partner. They continue by keeping me out of her hospital room when she was in a head-on collision with a drunk driver going the wrong way down a one-way. And I'm sure it will only continue when our child is born and we have to jump through every legal loophole imaginable just so either of us can pick her up from the nurse's office when she has a fever at school.

CNN and other news sources are doing their job by exposing people like Curtis for their hypocrisy. Maybe once America realizes that these people are not making laws based on a sense of moral rightness, but rather because they are too afraid to be true to themselves and live an honest, but, at times, trying life...maybe then...and only then...can people like me and my family take a deep breath and enjoy the freedoms our taxes pay for. If CNN doesn't do this...if the media doesn't do this...nobody will ever do it. Certainly not lawmakers like Rep. Curtis.

Posted By Anonymous : November 1, 2007 1:31 pm

I see you are as gutless by posting anonymously as you are stupid for making the remark itself.

Not only are you anonymous, you are insignificant.

Now to the people that are missing my points:

Point #1 – The stories in New Jersey got scant coverage at best and NEVER made it to the ticker for all of us to discuss and blog on. That was my factual statement, remember, reading is fundamental.

Point #2 – Using all of your flawed logic that states that ALL Republicans are hypocrites because a select FEW preach family but don't live it, and that is why this is a BIG story, I could easily say that the New Jersey dozen should have been an EVEN BIGGER story as your WHOLE PARTY ran with one slogan, to clean up poiltics.

How did that work out?

Wouldn't that make you ALL hypocrites as well?????

The difference is and many of my like minded posters have said this as well, both sides have jerks that make each party look bad, the difference is that only one party admits it.

Look up Barney Frank and Gerry Studds and that Bill Clinton guy to name a few, nah, all just good guys.

When CNN decides to run almost 50 (no exaggeration) articles on Larry Craig – but not ONE article about the Navy Seal that was awarded the Medal of Honor (a very rare and honorable event)… YOU call that objective reporting??

This guy (Richard Curtis) is a political pimple – a Washington State Representative, WOW. But CNN feels it deserves the #1 spot on the Blog and front page of their Headline News *BECAUSE* it's a republican – involving sex.

If you can't see the agenda – critical thinking has escaped you.

Posted By James, Phoenix AZ : November 1, 2007 12:44 pm

Posted By Ga Voter : November 1, 2007 10:48 am
Is comparing homosexuality to incest and beastiality really the best argument you can come up with? It's a shocker you didn't post under your real name. I'd be embarrased by my lazy logic too!

You forgot/left out 1 more "na", just fyi.

No one seems to get this simple point – stop trying to control people's lives because of you're own personal opinions. Why shouldn't a fellow human being have the same rights as you if they're not hurting anyone else? Give me one good reason other than your own personal opinion or some lame bible quote that certain actions are "wrong." I say live and let live people. Poeple should be able to do what they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone else. Period.

The reason that people flip out when they see Republicans doing these things isn't because of their conduct per se, but because they make a living denying people's rights and pandering to ignorance in order to get votes.

And don't get me started on the christians saying that being gay is a choice and we are doomed to playing in satan's playground. They just have a fundamental lack of knowledge about when, how and why the bible was written. (Here's a hint, study history in something other than the bible).

You are either born gay or not, it ain't a matter of choice, people. Every year, more SCIENTIFIC studies are showing a physiological link to sexual orientation, NOT a psychological link. So, just like laws are not to be made that discriminate against people based on the color they were born, they should not be made to discriminate against your sexual orientation since you have as much control over that as you have over being white, Afro-American, Chinese, etc.

Hmm, I seem to have stryed from the point . . . oh yeah, the idiot proved that he was a lier (I'm not gay), a hypocrite (self-explanatory), a criminal (broke the law despite being from the 'law and order' party . . . yeah, what a joke that's proving to be) and was a scumbag to his family.

I'm not a republican, I'm not a democrat but on this one, I have to go with the democrats.

BTW, the non-capitalizations were done on purpose. Have a nice day,

The Navy Seal awarded the Medal of Honor was front page on CNN for two days. First when they announced he would get it, and then when he got it. This is our problem with the GOP, they never let the facts get in the way of a good liberal or gay bashing.
The Dems and liberals are not jumping on gays or acting homophobic in any of these instances. It's the hypocrisy. This guy is accused of having solicted sex (illegal), then possibly having filed false police charges (illegal), not to mention the fact that he wanted unprotected sex, meaning that not only his own, but his wife's life meant squat to him. He was willing to risk the woman he married to suffer a long slow death to get off with a prostitute. That's absolutely horrible by anyone's measure..if true.
The fact that the GOP gives that a pass in order to circle the wagons is frightening to any moral person on a level that is beyond belief.

... and you probably still buy the Republican FDR/Pearl Harbor fiction.

*I* say if HE would leave the gays and lesbians alone, I'd be more than happy to leave HIM alone. But since he consistently voted AGAINST gay rights, freedoms, and protections in our laws, if I am to follow your example and speak out in favor of leaving gay people alone to live their lives... I must speak out again him for working to keep our government from doing so And he has less excuse than the heterosexual members of congress that voted as he did – they might have actually believed in what they were voting for, he was voting against his own kind to get power and money. Shameful.

Did I get that right Republicans? You guys are really good at trying to spin things that are unfavorable to your party. Why not just come out and say "Yeah, that guy's a dunce"?

Your ideaology has failed our country so you blame the media. Iraq is a mess so you blame the Iraqi's. You started an unjust illeagal was and it is Hillory clintons's fault for not stopping you. This is why the Republican party is looked at so poorly in this country and by the rest of the world. Your so affraid to admint when you fail that you have lost all credibility and are goin gto fall at the hands of the whimpy, Spineless democrats. They could not beat you without your help. Keep it up and watch your party get flushed.