Family values.

The moral majority shows us the way again. Realy I do not know this governor nor franky care about his past transgressions in his personal life. His no former wife deciding to go public with this is honorable in the sense that she feels the public has the right to know but also feels like airing her dirty laundry in public, maybe a little springer-esque. Of course this can not be good for Republicans in the state, with the NJ Rep Fossella, Guiliani's own marital issues, Bob Schaffer shenanigans in the mariana Islands, McCain's frequent mis-statements regarding facts pertaining to foreign policy, which is supposed to be his strong suit, it is looking like the red-meat that Republicans always talk about is their own. Good ridance to bad governance and hopefully we will be ablt to look back at this time in our history as a moment which was the beginning of the end for the neo-conservatives and many of the Republican counter-parts effort to ruin this country through privatization that leads to economic instability and equality and a lack of accountability and integrity by those that offer themselves as 'leaders'!

Let's kick their ass this November! Let's see some progress for the progressive agenda!

And why, exactly, is it relevant that the Governor is "a practicing Mormon"? If he were a practicing Methodist, or a practicing Jew, would that bit of information be equally newsworthy in this context?

Jim Gibbons has something in common with Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: none of the three of them are particularly bright, to the extent that all three seem to suffer (or have suffered) from some sort of obvious cognitive disfunction. And yet, the Republican machine managed to foist them on the public anyway.

In a group setting in May 2006, in the course of defending Bush's tax cuts for the rich, I heard Jim Gibbons say, "That's a lesson John F. Kennedy learded in 1964 -- tax cuts are good for the economy," to which I promptly replied, "John F. Kennedy didn't learn anything in 1964 -- he was dead." He then stopped interacting completely with the audience of visiting students and constituents. He just shut down.

I later learned that he had an extensive history of verbal gaffes much worse than this, gaffes which continued through the guberbatorial campaign and into the governor's office.

I don't care that he's a Mormon (that just makes him an even bigger "family values" hypocrite). I do care that he is a mentally-disabled pawn of -- who? I don't know. But they don't have the best interests of Nevada or the U.S. at heart. He is incompetent.

I wouldn't hire him as a night manager of a 7-11.

I understand where you're coming from, Jim, but I don't think it's fair to have two different sets of rules, one for Republicans and another for Democrats.

Larry Craig? OK, the guy was a flaming moralist hypocrite. If Gibbons was prominent for attacking a political opponent in the guise of a holier-than-thou family man, then maybe...

I don't know. My sympathies could be totally misplaced. Maybe Gibbons is really a bad guy. He's a Republican, so I almost certainly wouldn't have voted for him. But I never heard of him before, and the only news here is that his wife wants their divorce to be messy and public. If that's a "must read," it's a slow news day.

Jeez, I never thought I'd see the day when you couldn't laugh at corrupt Republicans without concern trolls sniffing that the Muckraker shouldn't cover GOP illicit affairs.

It was certainly newsworthy when the drunken bum assaulted a woman at night in a parking lot on the eve of his election and then got his buddies to cover it up.

Gibbons is under investigation for taking bribes. The affair is just more evidence of the governor's moral turpitude.

Remember the $100k bribe that was purportedly passed to Gibbons by a supporter when they were on a cruise together? No one complained about the photos from the cruise being published here.

If his wife gets ticked off enough, we might get lucky and she will throw Gibbons under a bus. She was involved in his financial affairs and knows where the bodies are buried.

I did a little digging and it wasn't to hard to come up with questions about the governor's intiative, Education First.

The day TPM Muckraker stops publishing this stuff is the day I stop reading it.

Sigh, I got a feeling its going to be a LONG two years.

JJ
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

I think it is important to know that a person who runs his public campaign on "family values," and attacking others as not having "family values," and gets elected on the implicit promise that he will comport himself in keeping with "family values," is a hypocrite who won election by lying to the electors.

The electors have the absolute right to know they were swindled out of their vote by a liar and hypocrite.

I might feel sympathy for his wife and her husband; but am I to feel sympathy for the adulterers? Were they compassionate to his wife and her husband by violating their their "family values" vows?

If we can be put through years of baseless smears against Clinton, and an impeachment which was essentially a beef that the BJ didn't result in anyone's death, then I think we can stand the releif of some actual truth that exposes the mindsets and methods of the members of that lynch mob. Payback is a bitch -- even worse when the payback is caused by oneself; but we know who began the cycle.

From now on, whenever I hear a Republican talk about "family values," I'm gonna put on a pilot suit (I won't need the codpiece) and yell:

"Bring 'em on!"

He sounds like a perfect Republican. What's the problem?

I am new at this but it seems to me that a must read is whatever Josh deems it to be. When any one of us start our own blog and spend hours and hours on the project then we can decide what a must read will be. I agree with most here that this is a great opportunity to dig the knife in a little deeper and have a real hoot at the same time. Lighten up Don!