Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats
Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com

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Randal David Ankeney is the Republican activist who was arrested on
suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He was charged with
six counts related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then
having sex with her. Ankeny has also been accused of sexually
assaulting another girl. Source: Denver ABC Article

Jim Bakker is the infamous televangelist who worked with Pat Robertson
at Robertson's Christian Broadcasting network. Sources at the time, and
then later Jim himself, confirmed that he committed adultery with
Jessica Hahn, and then used charitable donations to pay her hush money.
Fellow televangelists have stated in the past that they believe he's
gay. Bakker was indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion,
and racketeering.

Bob Barr is the Republican Congressman from Georgia who sponsored the
anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the
flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking
at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." He was married
three times, and paid for his second wife's abortion (she also
suspected he was cheating on her). he failed to pay child support to
the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and
present wife and was photographed licking whipped cream off of
strippers at his inaugural party.

Parker J. Bena was a Republican activist and a key player in the
campaign to elect George W. Bush as President. Bena was charged and
later pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and lying to
the FBI. Bena reportedly told the feds that he had received an
unsolicited e-mail containing pictures of children (some as young as
three years old) performing various sexual acts, but agents learned
that he had in fact voluntarily entered a number of child pornography
websites and downloaded the images himself. This is said to have
involved acts with children as young as 3 years old, on his home
computer. Parker J. Bena was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison
and fined $18,000. Source: DemocracyUnderground.com

Louis Beres is a past chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon.
Three of his family members accuse him of molesting them as children,
when they were pre-teens. In an Editor and Publisher article, in August
2006, Beres confessed to the accusations facing him. The Portland
Mercury

John Bolton, President George W. Bush's highly contested appointee
ambassador to United Nations is suspected of forcing his former wife to
be involved in unsavory group sex acts. Corroborated allegations that
Mr. Bolton's first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in
group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite
inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the
allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources
that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato's Retreat, the
popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s
and early 1980s.

Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: Many attribute the success Jim Bunn
experienced in great part to support from the Christian Coalition.
Congressman Jim Bunn won his congressional seat, and then sources say
that he immediately ditched his wife, the mother of his five children,
and married a staffer. Jim Bunn is said to have put his new wife on the
state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500, thereby becoming
one of the biggest waste and spend conservatives from the state of
Oregon. Source: Conservative Babylon

President of the United States George W. Bush, was accused in a
criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later
died in a questionable case of suicide. Bush was also accused by Tammy
Phillips, a former stripper, who was quoted in the National Enquirer in
2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999. Another
serious question involves statements from the wife of Red Blount, whom
Bush campaigned for, while possibly A.W.O.L from the Air National Guard
at age 26. She stated that he was "all over their 14 year old
daughter." Multiple Sources

Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition,
admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at
his room while on an Asian business trip. Overshadowing the sex scandal
at the time was a business scandal. Neal Bush keeps a low profile and
is not seen in public very often. He also has questionable ties to the
security of the World Trade Towers in the September 11th 2001 attacks
on the United States. Source: Washington Post article

Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-California), has been called the champion
of the Christian Coalition and its "family values." But in reality, Ken
Calvert was sued as an alimony "deadbeat dad" by his ex-wife who said,
"We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In
1993, Calvert was caught by police officers receiving oral sex from a
prostitute. He attempted to flee the scene but apparently couldn't move
fast enough to get away from police, and was arrested.
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Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). In 1995, Chenoweth had denied
having an affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review.
In 1998 she called (in a campaign ad) for Bill Clinton's resignation
saying, "I believe that personal conduct and integrity do matter". Days
later she admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married
associate, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've
asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed.

Mark Foley, Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional
District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional
pages via an instant messenger program. The conversations included his
asking a sixteen-year-old "stud" whether his penis was erect and
requesting that he take out and measure his penis. The cover-up
involved Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Eighth
Congressional District and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert,
Illinois Fourteenth District.

Newt Gingrich, well established crusader against legislation that
assists women and the poor, has married three times while spouting
Christian values the entire time. Newt Gingrich's campaign worker Anne
Manning, admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still
married to his first wife, essentially placing Newt in the exact same
position President Clinton had to endure when Gingrich and his cronies
maintained their pressure over the Lewinski incident. Gingrish informed
one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital
recovering from cancer treatments. Salon article

Philip Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut
was sentenced by a state court to serve 37 years for forcing two little
girls to perform acts of oral sex on him in his Waterbury City Hall
office. While investigating municipal corruption, the FBI discovered
phone records and pictures of Giordano with a prostitute named Guitana
Jones, as well as with her 10-year-old niece and her 8-year-old
daughter. 37-years is a very long prison sentence, many said at the
time that it still wasn't enough. Source: NBC Article/Newsday Article

Rudy Giuliani, New York Mayor and Republican Presidential Candidate, is
reported as having had an adulterous affair that failed to stay out of
the public light. Groups also cite Giuliani for pocketing an $80,000
fee for speaking at a charity benefit for tsunami aid which raised only
$60,000 for the victims themselves. Critics of Giuliani say there will
be more revelations about his character and past as his presidential
aspirations gain momentum.

Matthew Glavin, president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation,
was a big player in the Clinton Impeachment proceedings, and he has
spearheaded a good number of anti-homosexual jihads. He has been
arrested multiple times for public indecency, sources report, one time
it was for fondling the crotch of the police officer who was arresting
him at a national park. Opponents say his actions were treated "with
kid gloves" and therefore inadequate.

Neal Horsley is a political figure of the far right, and the author of
a website devoted to his advocacy of militant pro-life, secessionist,
and anti-gay views. He has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. He
admitted on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, that he's had
sex with mules. He put photographs on his Web site of naked men
engaging in homosexual acts and a nude woman engaging in bestiality
amid shots of grotesquely maimed fetuses. Drug dealer convicted of
possession of hashish with intent to sell. He calls for "the
establishment of a new government, one that can obey God's plan for
government."

Lewis "Scooter" Libby is the former Assistant to the President and
Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted but
recently exempted from having to serve his sentence by the President.
In 1996, "Scooter" Libby published a novel containing bizarre sexual
content, including bestiality and pedophilia. Other high level White
House officials were said to have been involved in the book that Libby
published.

Rush Limbaugh is the infamous talk show pundit and advocate of moral
values who has been divorced three times. A staunch anti-drug crusader,
Limbaugh is in reality, a 30-pill a day drug addict. He also takes
questionable trips to locations where many western men travel to buy
sex under shady circumstances. It was a return from one of those
possibly sordid journeys when one of his drug arrests occurred.
Limbaugh was returning from the Dominican Republic. The Rush Limbaugh
sex tourism story could seriously lead to his downfall if any of the
allegations were founded. "Turnabout is most certainly fair play," is
how one news agency worded it. Then there is the report of Rush's use
of Viagra while he was single. Sources: correntewire.com/The Smoking
Gun.com

Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in
Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee's Marriage Protection act. He
was divorced in April 2005 because of an affair he was having with an
office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a
means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment,
however, which stated that "Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the
institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee."

Joseph M. McDade, 75, was issued a summons on a charge of exposure of
his sexual organs, a misdemeanor that carries up to a year in jail and
a $1,000 fine. The longtime Pennsylvania Republican congressman who
served for 36 years in the House and now works for a Washington
lobbying firm, has been accused of exposing his private parts to two
women at a beach resort on Sanibel Island. Source: DKOS diary

Bill O'Reilly is the highly controversial right-wing conservative talk
show host on Fox News known for the "O'Reilly factor" and the "no spin
zone." O'Reilly is highly contested over his ability to polarize people
along political lines. Bill O'Reilly has been sued for sexual
harassment by his producer. The female Fox News producer named Andrea
Mackris filed a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated
instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her
about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his
virginity, and sexual fantasies. He settled with the producer for an
undisclosed amount of money.

Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.) resigned in 1995 under a threat of
public senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of
sexual harassment. A pro-choice Republican who often rallied for
women's rights, Packwood let down generations of supporters, and is a
good example of the complexity of human nature, since he supported
legislation to protect women's rights during his 25 years in office
while simultaneously making unwanted sexual advances toward many
different women. In the end, 19 women testified to outrageous behavior
which was mostly carried out when Packwood was drunk. The most damaging
was the charge of a former staff woman who was only 17 years old at the
time. Packwood might still have survived the challenge had he responded
with his former talent for compromise, but he was defiant and
confrontational, trying to bully his way through the situation and
alienating even his friends, it is reported.

George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife,
while serving as president of Hillsdale College, which "emphasizes the
importance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while
recognizing the importance of religion for the maintenance of a free
society." The scandal broke out in 1999 when the wife of George Roche
IV, Lissa Jackson Roche, claimed to have had an affair spanning 19
years with her husband's father. Shortly after, she was found dead in
the college's arboretum with a handgun, and the death was ruled a
suicide. Following his resignation in November 1999, Roche left public
life and moved to Colorado.

Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, is currently a
conservative talk show host. He resigned his congressional seat
abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an
affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his
office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri
for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in
Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving
conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them
because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."

Ed Schrock was a two-term Republican Congressman, with a 92%% approval
rating from the Christian Coalition. Co-sponsor of the Federal Marriage
Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and
kids, he withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him
soliciting gay sex were circulated. The Virginia Pilot reported in
October 2000 that Schrock favored ending the Clinton administration's
"don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military, BlogActive
noted. "He supports asking enlistees whether they have had homosexual
experiences in an effort to try to keep gays from serving. 'You're in
the showers with them, you're in the bunk room with them, you're in
staterooms with them,' Schrock said."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host, is known
for promoting family values. She is estranged from her mother, opposes
birth control, has had her tubes tied. She espouses saving oneself for
marriage, and admits to having had sex before she was married. She
opposes adultery, but has committed adultery while she was married, and
has slept with a married man. She opposes divorce, but she is divorced
and remarried, and has posed for nude photos which are available online.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the hit Hollywood movie actor turned politician
and California Republican governor, has admitted during a Oui
interview, having sex with a 16-year old when he was 28. Today men who
commit similar acts in Oregon are branded sex offenders and placed in
correctional facilities. At the time of the Oui story, Schwarzenegger,
then 29, was appearing in "Pumping Iron," a documentary on the
bodybuilding circuit. In the Q&A with Manso from Oui Magazine, today's
California Governor spoke about his sex life then, his drug usage, and
his belief that men "shouldn't feel like fags just because they want to
have nice-looking bodies." Source: Oui

Jean Schmidt is a Republican legislator from Ohio. Though not herself
implicated, she employed a campaign manager named Joe Brauns in her
2005 election who once wrote an article condemning gay men for running
sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of running his own sex
profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile called for
"submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have hot wax
dripped on them. Source: DKOS Diary

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, exposed in 1986 fellow Assemblies of God
minister Marvin Gorman, who was having an affair with one of his
parishioners. The following year, Swaggart then exposed Jim Bakker's
sexual indiscretions and soon after appeared on the Larry King Show
stating that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ." As a
retaliatory move, Marvin Gorman hired a private-detective to follow
Swaggart. During his investigation, the detective found Swaggart in a
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana motel on Airline Highway with prostitute
Debra Murphree and took pictures as proof of the tryst.Source: Wikipedia

Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue, was
involved in the Terri Schiavo protests. He was once imprisoned for
sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel
is gay; his daughter Tila had sex outside of marriage, became pregnant,
had a miscarriage - she is no longer welcome in his home; his daughter
Ebony had 2 children outside of wedlock and became Muslim. He has
campaigned against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed
mothers. Terry himself was censured by his church after committing
adultery.

Strom Thurmond was an outspoken southern republican senator and racist.
According to information revealed toward the end of his life, he had as
a younger man raped and impregnanted a 15-year old African American
maid. Throughout his adult life, as a politician and U.S. Senator,
Thurmond quietly contributed to the family of the young
African-American mother of his child. In contrast to, say, George "I
Was Wrong" Wallace, Thurmond had always been an ornery redemption
project. He did not repent. Even so, his illegitimate daughter further
complicated the moral picture. Source: slate.com/BBC Article

Jim West, Spokane Mayor, supported a bill which failed, would have
barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and
some state agencies. He voted to bar the state from distributing
pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. He
proposed that "any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a
person" among teens be criminalized. He ended up having a sexual affair
with an 18-year old boy. Source: Spokesman review