Morris didn't do anything wrong

"but it doesn't make him an anomaly, either. It makes him a fairly ordinary guy with flaws and vulnerabilities that a lot of his electorate share."

That's the problem nobody wants an ordinary scum bag for a president. The breakdown of the family in the US is the root of most of our society's ills.

Your own examples show that the reason they got into trouble was because of sex.

After 9/11, there were concerns that the Bush administration overlooked obvious warning signs abut a major terrorist attack on US soil. Was there a big hue and cry about it? No, not really, Maybe a newspaper article or two, a TV news report or two, and that's it.

There were some hue and cry over Katrina, the incompetence, slow response, etc., but Bush wasn't impeached over it.

Your own examples reinforced the fact that in America, you can lie, cheat, kill, and you're OK. But have a sex affair, and you're out the door.

I feel sorry for you.

You just compared a man being sexually faithful to his wife with a woman staying with her husband through homelessness? Really? You think those situations are comparable?

You sound like the kind of man who justifies cheating on women by claiming it's "biology." Unfortunately, this information is perpetuated in the media, in TV shows, in movies to the point that women begin to excuse the behavior as something men "just can't help." Some women - myself included - have been lucky enough to find men with honor, decency, loyalty, love, compassion, men who don't think their penises are more important than the women they proclaim to love.

I feel sorry for you and any woman who shares your bed.

Thats *beep* If a politician beat his wife and assisted terrorists noone would support him or her.

Yes Gosling had a point about starting wars and *beep* and getting away with it but someone who beat his wife and assisted terrorists would be in jail or impeached immediatly provided the public knew about it.

Really? I wouldn't give one single flying fck about him cheating on his wife because I don't care about other people's personal matters, even if he's trying to personate the "good family guy" image. It doesn't matter for me if he's a married dude or if he's in a threesome with two gay midgets, only his opinions on things that affect my life do matter for me.

But I do understand why people would freak out with a politician cheating on his wife, of course, people give too much of a fck about the personal life of everyone nowadays. Politicians, celebrities, musicians, players, actors, you name it, they can't fart without at least 50,000 going "OMG, I can't believe he farted".

I think that what is important to remember here is that all that he claims to be in favor of, all that he claims to BE, are things designed to make him a more appealing candidate. He says he's a family man because it makes him more sympathetic to voters who have families. They identify with him more readily. But does being a family man (or woman) really matter in politics? I personally don't think so.

You (and others) make a very good point; if his "family man" status is just a smoke screen, is anything he says real? I personally would LOVE to see a politician who is divorced or single run for president...but they'd probably never get elected because for some reason people with families want their leaders to at least appear to be like them, married, preferably with children. Is that an important attribute for a candidate to have? Not to me...but then again I'm single and don't have kids.

On the other side of things, I'd be equally impressed by a politician who had an affair and then admitted to it. That person might have screwed up their personal life, but at least they had the decency and self-awareness to admit to it. It's all the lies and posturing that make me sick at my stomach.

I've got me git-finder set to pansy...

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