It's O K If You Are Republican.
Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner tweets inappropriate to his office photos to a woman who asked him to gets drummed out of office. A Democratic President has a willing playmate, and he gets raked over the coals. Of course, the selfrighteous will say it's because they LIED. Any democrat who does anything even mildly off color, he/she is forced out of office.
BUT..
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. He even kept diaries of his antics, but he was allowed to resign with one helluva pension payout! But first he tried to lie his way out of it saying the women were lying.. until his journals were found.
Senator David Vitter (R-LA), found to have been a client of prostitutes in D.C. & Louisiana, lied under oath about it, and was cold busted.
Newt Gingrich - Cheated on dying wife, divorced her to marry mistress. Then cheated on new wife, he lied saying they were happlily married, and even tried to get her to lie about this marriage. He divorced her and married the latest mistress.
I could go on and on about the Republican "paragons of virtue' but a quick google search will give you all the same info. My point is that it's disingenuous for RW/Conservative talking heads to claim it has to do with lying.
Now, we move to Herman Cain. Two women were given pay offs err payouts by the Restaurant Association that Cain used to head. They were also made to sign confidentiality agreements, aka gag orders, on the details. Would Cain lie and deny it? Yes, and he can get away with it unless the gag order is lifted. Also, his story keeps changing day by day.
Do I believe their accusations? Yes, I do. Not because Cain is a GOPer but because of how RW mouth pieces have been slicing the women to ribbons as they do whenever anyone dares to accuse any high profile GOP member of doing anything wrong. And Cain's glib comments aren't changing my mind.
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