Lindsey Graham: “I’ve Got Plenty Of Sins That I’m Not Going To Share”
A rather intriguing reaction from one of John Ensign’s Senate GOP colleagues to the news of Ensign’s extramarital affair:
“I think he will be welcomed back by his colleagues and go back to being a good senator,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said Ensign shouldn’t have resigned his leadership spot.
Graham downplayed the political impact this would have on the GOP, saying, “Most Americans look at this as a personal situation.”
Graham let out a laugh and said: “I’ve got plenty of sins that I’m not going to share with anyone else.”
Translation: It’s probably a pretty bad idea for me to throw stones from inside my glass house…
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Tough break for Ensign, social conservative, moral scold and Promise Keeper. Clearly, if one’s *** life has become one more bit of evidence for the Second Law of Thermodynamics then a viable path back to spice is to join the conservative movement and run for office. Those folks get laid by non-partners a lot!
When oh when is someone gonna out that guy?
And once again I am prompted to ask why it is that Vitter and Craig and Ensign (probably) get to keep their careers while Edwards and Spitzer are toast?
By the way, shallow and unsmart piece by Monica Hesse there at the WP. Absolutely no acknowledgement of the hypocrisy element of his stated social conservatism and earlier criticisms of others.
Please do share Lindsey, inquiring minds want to know!!!
Lindsey has to be a catcher.
Graham was a zealot in prosecuting President Clinton in the Senate during impeachment! Oh how the righteous mighty have fallen! -Kevo
Lindsey Graham lied to the Supreme Court, that tells me that he’ll lie to anyone. Best to not even pay him a bit of attention.
He’s also the worst kept secret this side of Charlie Crist.
Why does Graham think his homosexual lifestyle is sinful?
Does he think he “can stop if he wants to”?
And once again I am prompted to ask why it is that Vitter and Craig and Ensign (probably) get to keep their careers while Edwards and Spitzer are toast?
Hell, there wasn’t even any point in going after Edwards — his career was over once he withdrew from the 2008 primaries. Yet the evening news ran with the story like crazy. I’ve yet to hear the Ensign story on any of the network evening newscasts, or drive-time radio, and those are the two places where most Americans get their news.
An even better comparison: Remember when the highly-closeted Dem NJ Gov. McGreevey was shamed into quitting when it was alleged he put his boyfriend on the public payroll? This news hit just as the gay press was filled with reports outing Republican congressman David Dreier, whose own alleged boyfriend was also on the public payroll. (http://phoenixwoman.blogspot.com/2005/09/david-dreier-new-tom-delay.html) Yet Dreier got to keep HIS job. In fact, the only penalty he suffered was at the hands of social conservatives in the GOP, who moved to keep him from taking his mentor Tom DeLay’s place as House Majority (GOP) Whip in 2005 under the pretext that the congressman — whose voting record was and his hyper-conservative — was in fact a “moderate”. As Barney Frank tartly replied, they must have thought that Dreier was a moderate “in the sense that I marched in the moderate pride parade last summer and went to a moderate bar.” (http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Republicans_rebuffed_congressman_because_of_speculation_1012.html)
you mean the linday graham who was one of the impeachment managers in the house? that lindsay graham?