I’m a liberal so, “Raise shields, Mr. Sulu” 
I believe that extra-marital hanky-panky is one area in which Democratic and Republican politicians have achieved complete bi-partisanship
Because Democrats have not made private moral virtue a defining element of their party, the mighty don’t fall quite so low. [Their claim to higher morality is usually confined to spending other people's money for social programs... ]
Sanford, et. al., break the British maxim of, “never be caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man” and go through tearful, publicly televised flogging rituals. (Why don’t they ever repent UNTIL they’ve been caught?
Bill Clinton gets caught, shrugs, and says, in essence, so what’s the big deal? Besides, I never inhaled
Republicans can certainly embrace a higher standard of private morality if they wish, but probably communicate more of a “there but for the grace of God go I” attitude when a Democrat (such as Clinton) reveals his feet of clay (amongst other things).
Bill Bekkenhuis
Bethlehem, PA
