#1Jun 16th, 2009
Senator John Ensign (Republican, Nevada) has admitted to having an affair with his staffer. Ensign is a typical Republican, self righteous, mealy mouthed, telling other people how they should live their lives. This is what he had to say about Clinton in 1998 (he was in the House at that time).
"In 1998, while running for the Nevada’s senate seat against Harry Reid, Ensign called on President Clinton to resign in light of his admitted affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky:
“I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it’s because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through,” Ensign said Thursday, becoming the first member of the Nevada delegation to call for Clinton to quit. “He has no credibility left.”
And he was just getting started. He has been a leading conservative voice in the Senate, since he was elected to the Senate in 2000 (and again in 2006). This is what he had to say about Senator Larry ‘wide stance’ Craig, after Craig was caught in a homosexual act in Minnesota airport bathroom.
Since his election to the Senate in 2000, Ensign has been a leading conservative voice who demanded the resignation of former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig in September 2007. Ensign called Craig a “disgrace” after he was arrested in June 2007 in an airport men’s restroom on disorderly conduct charges. And he called upon him to resign.
Ensign has also been an ardent opponent of gay marriage. In Feb. 2004, Ensign announced his support for an amendment to the Constitution that would have defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Ensign said the amendment, which ultimately failed, was necessary to protect “the institution of marriage“:
So basically he is another Larry Craig. Anyway, since he has been so judgmental, so willing to condemn others, so uptight about politicians such as Clinton getting caught in an affair, since he called for their resignation, is Ensign himself talking of resigning? Don’t you believe it.
The guardians of peoples’ moral always have a different standard for themselves. So while Ensign thought that Clinton and Craig should resign, he has said that he will not resign. I think Nevada is a solidly Republican state (and conservatives don’t have any problem with hypocrisy, many of them don’t even understand the concept), so I assume he wouldn’t’ have any difficulty getting reelected in 2012.
But it is always a delicious irony when a card carrying member of the religious right, extreme right is exposed as a hypocrite.
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