On 10/11/06, Pat Kraut <<a href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I have some other ideas about this but this is on the mark also.<br><br>The GOP defines prurience, Pat. They spent years obsessing over Clinton's fellatio (at the cost to taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars).
<br><br>Here's a little fodder for you. Don't gorge yourself.<br><br><a href="http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Keith%2520Westmoreland.htm">Keith Westmoreland</a>. A Republican state representative from Tennessee. He liked to expose himself to little boys.
<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman">Robert Bauman</a>. Republican congressman from Maryland. Arrested for having sex with a 16-year old boy who he picked up a gay bar.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Calvert">
Ken Calvert</a>. Republican congressman from California. Famously said: "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." Caught by police receiving oral sex from a prostitute and attempted to flee the scene.
<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane">Dan Crane</a>. Republican representative from Illinois. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Congressional_page_sex_scandal">HAD SEX WITH AN UNDERAGE CONGRESSIONAL PAGE
</a>. Interestingly, this happened at the same time that Gerry Studds was in the news for a similar crime.<br><br>There are literally dozens of further examples that I could provide (Google is my friend). Just remember that neither party can afford to be sanctimonious. The Dems and the GOP take turns playing hypocrites.