CONSERVATIVE "VALUES"
Jun-24-09
John McCain - Left his first wife after she had been severely injured in an
automobile accident for a rich former rodeo beauty queen 18 years his
junior. Investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for attempting to
influence federal regulators inquiring into the Lincoln Savings and Loan,
owned by McCain's friend and campaign contributor Charles Keating. Between
1984 and 1986, McCain failed to disclose over $15,000 worth of trips and
gifts from junk bond king Charles Keating on his financial disclosure forms,
and only reimbursed Keating after the scandal broke.
Cindy McCain - Stole drugs to feed her drug habit, including Percocet and
Vicodin, from her own nonprofit medical relief organization, American
Voluntary Medical Team. An AVMT employee, who had discovered her illegal
drug use, tipped off the Drug Enforcement Administration and a federal
investigation ensued resulting in McCain paying the costs of the
government's investigation.
George HW Bush - Linda Tripp says had he an affair with a woman named
Jennifer Fitzgerald while president.
George W. Bush - Convicted of drunk driving. Lied to congress and US
citizens about Iraq's nuclear capability just to justify his pre-emptive
war. Covered up Saudi aid to 9-11 hijackers. Lied on a juror form about his
arrest record, a felony in Texas. Lawsuit filed by Christian book writer
Margie Schoedinger claimed Bush raped and harrassed her. She was found dead
of a gunshot wound 9 months after filing the lawsuit.
Neil Bush - Fined for his "ethical disability" in Silverado savings and loan
investigation. Cost to tax payers: 1 billion dollars (still paying
interest), Cost to Bush: $0. The $50,000 fine was paid by a banking
deregulation lobby. Admitted that he had sex with prostitutes while on trips
to Thailand and Hong Kong.
Jeb Bush - Defaulted on a $4,56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in
Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office
building that gave Jeb used that loan, the $4.56 million to finance was
reappraised by the regulators to $.5 million, which Bush and his partners
paid, thereby leaving the taxpayers with a $4 million LOSS.
Columba Bush - Smuggled $16,000 worth of clothes and jewelry into the US
after a trip from France.
George P. Bush - Broke into ex-girlfriend's house and drove circles in her
front yard with his car during a fit of rage.
John "Jebby" Bush - Caught by the police with his pants down in a parking
lot, having sex with a teen-age girl.
Noelle Bush - Arrested for prescription fraud. Ordered by a judge to attend
a rehabilitation program. During her time at the facility, Bush was found in
contempt of court twice - once after being accused of taking prescription
pills from a nurse's office and once after she was caught with cocaine.
Barbara and Jenna Bush - Arrested at an Austin restaurant, Jenna for trying
to use a fake ID and Barbara for being in possession of alcohol. Jenna had
received a citation in April 2001 for possessing alcohol. Her boyfriend was
jailed in March, 2001, and was released to the Secret Service.
Dick Cheney - Convicted at least twice for drunk driving. Received five
draft deferments from serving in Vietnam because he "had other priorities in
the sixties than military service."
Tom DeLay - Had to resign in disgrace as House majority leader after a Texas
grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy charge stemming from a long-running
campaign finance investigation. Admonished by House ethics committee three
times for unethical behavior.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Indicted on five charges related to the CIA leak
probe: one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two
counts of making false statements. He was convicted of perjury and
obstruction of justice in a grand jury's investigation of the outing of CIA
operative Valierie Plame. The trial also implicated Karl Rove and Dick
Cheney in a campaign to discredit her husband, retired diplomat and Iraq war
critic Joe Wilson.
Paul D. Wolfowitz - Served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense for George W
Bush and considered the architect of the Iraq War. Nominated by Bush for
president of the World Bank, where he became involved in a relationship with
World Bank Senior Communications Officer (and Acting Manager of External
Affairs) for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office Shaha Ali Riz,
despite the organization's own ethics rules precluding simultaneous
employment of couples if one reports to the other even indirectly through a
chain of supervision. Wolfowitz promoted her to a job at the state
department under Liz Cheney, the daughter of the vice-president, resulting
in a raise of over $60,000, as well as guarantees of future increases, more
than double the amount allowed under employee guidelines, while keeping her
on the World Bank payroll.
Larry Craig - Idaho's anti-gay Republican Senator was arrested and pled
guilty to soliciting gay sex in an airport restroom in June 2007.
Glenn Murphy Jr. - Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party and
president of the Young Republican National Federation accosted two men by
attempting to perform oral sex on them as they slept.
David Vitter - A "family-values far-right conservative" Senator from
Lousiana, had an affair with a prositute in 1999 and admitted to a "serious
sin" after his telephone number was disclosed by the so-called "D.C. Madam"
in 2007. Lost a lawsuit for assulting a woman at a town hall meeting. Had a
pack with white supremacist David Duke to suppress the black vote.
John Ensign - Admitted he had an extramarital affair with a staffer after
the threat of being blackmailed.
S.C. Governor Mark Sanford - Disappeared for a week without telling anyone,
including his wife and State Law Enforcement Division, which provides
security for him. Later Sanford's spokesman told the press that Sanford was
hiking the Appalachian Trail. After returning to duty, he admitted he had
actually been in Argentina with his mistress.
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after
"sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old
boy.
Ted Haggard - Adviser to George W Bush on "spiritual matters" and fervent
homophobe who resigned his leadership of the National Association of
Evangelicals and stepped aside as pastor of his church after admitting to
having a three year affair with a male prostitute and using methamphetamine.
Bob Allen, Florida Republican representing District 32 of the State House of
Representatives, arrested 7/11/07 for solicitation for prostitution after he
solicited an undercover male officer inside a public restroom, offering to
perform oral sex for $20. Before his arrest, Representative Bob Allen
sponsored a failed bill that would have tightened the state's prohibition on
public sex. He also has been a supporter of amending the state constitution
to ban same-sex marriage and has opposed a bill to curb bullying of gay
students. After his arrest, he blamed his actions on a fear of
African-Americans!
Coy Privette, the president of the Christian Action League, a North Carolina
ultraconservative Christian political organization based in Raleigh,
arrested on 7/19/07 for soliciting prostitution after paying his hookers
with checks and then reporting then stolen. Privette also served as a
Republican in the N.C. Legislature from 1984 to 1992 and has been a member
of the board of commissioners in Cabarrus County since 1998.
Philip Giordano, Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., was convicted of
paying a crack-addicted prostitute to bring her daughter and niece to him
for sexual encounters in 2000 and 2001, when they were 8 and 10. He was
sentenced to 37 years in prison for sexually abusing the two girls.
Matteo Fontana - Department of Education official under George W Bush,
overseer the student loan industry, was put on leave after disclosure that
he owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.
Julie MacDonald - Apointed by George W Bush to oversee the Fish and Wildlife
Service although she has no academic background in biology. She overrode
recommendations of agency scientists about how to protect endangered species
and improperly leaked internal information to private groups.
Philip Cooney - Former oil-industry lobbyist who became chief of staff for
the White House Council on Environmental Quality under George W Bush,
acknowledged to a House committee that he edited three government reports to
eliminate or downplay links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He
left the government in 2005 to work for Exxon.
J. Steven Griles - A former oil and gas lobbyist who became Deputy Interior
Secretary under George W Bush, convicted in the Abramoff influence-peddling
scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by lying to a Senate
committee about his relationship with Abramoff. Abramoff repeatedly sought
Griles' intervention at Interior on behalf of Indian tribal clients.
Darleen Druyun - Air Force procurement officer under George W Bush served
nine months in prison in 2005 for violating conflict-of-interest rules after
agreeing to lease Boeing refueling tankers for $23 billion, despite Pentagon
studies showing the tankers were unnecessary. After making the deal, she
quit the government to join Boeing.
David H. Safavian - White House aide for George W Bush was convicted last
year of lying to government investigators about his ties to Jack Abramoff
and faces an 180-month prison sentence.
Claude Allen - George W Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded guilty to
theft in making phony returns at discount department stores. He was to two
years of supervised probation and fined $500.
"Jeff Gannon" - Pseudonym for James Guckert -- who worked for fake news
agency Talon News, with "daily passes" obtained from the Secret Service and
FBI allowing Guckert/Gannon access to White House press briefings and to
parse questions to President George W. Bush. Guckert/Gannon was later
exposed as a gay prostitute.
John Doolittle, Deputy Whip for the Republican party in the House, resigned
from the Committee on Appropriations in response to a raid by the FBI at his
Northern Virginia home investigating his involvment with Jack Abramoff. His
wife worked for Jack Abramoff and was paid via a company called Sierra
Dominion Financial Solutions, based at the couple's home and founded just
after Congressman Doolittle gained a seat on the Appropriations Committee.
She is the only employee.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), caught by police with a prostitute in a parked car
in California. Subsequently, Calvert repeatedly attempted to cover up the
incident for nearly a year, publicly denying that it ever occurred.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a
congressional page.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - Under investigation from the Justice
Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission about his sale of
stock in his family's hospital company one month before its price fell
sharply. Accepted over $23,000 from the tobacco industry, although he is a
doctor. Adopted cats from animal shelters so he could kill them.
Randall Harold "Duke" Cunningham - Resigned from the House after pleading
guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes and underreporting his
income for 2004. Plead guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit
bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. Sentenced to eight years
and four months in prison and an order to pay $1.8 million in restitution.
Bob Dole - Cheated on his first wife with his current wife, Elizabeth Dole.
Henry Hyde - Had a seven year affair with a married woman with three kids,
an affair that continued even after the woman's husband, Fred Snodgrass,
found out about it and demanded that Hyde leave his wife alone.
Newt Gingrich - Dumped his ex-wife while she was in a hospital bed suffering
from cancer. Was screwing his aid while sitting in judgment of President
Clinton. He resigned as speaker of the house. Also funneled hundreds of
millions of dollars to his campaign donors. His district received more
taxpayer's money than all the other districts in America.
Bill Bennett - When not telling Americans how to be virtuous can be found in
Las Vegas gambling the night away.
Gov. John Rowland - Had to resign after it was discloses he illegally
accepted gifts from state contractors. Plead guilty federal charge of
criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Bill Janklow - Convicted of manslaughter. Habitual speeder and reckless
driver.
John Linder - Has a wandering eye for his female staff members.
Mike Bowers - Cheated on his wife for fifteen years.
Jack Ryan - Had to drop out of senatorial race after it was disclosed he
forced his wife to perform sex acts in front of strangers.
William Cohen - Cheated on his wife then dumped her for his mistress..
Jeanine Pirro - Republican District Attorney required a grocery chain to
hire Bernard B. Keriks security consulting firm in 2004 to settle charges
brought by her office. In 2005, Ms. Pirro was caught on tape asking Mr.
Kerik to secretly tape her husbands conversations to see if he was having an
affair with another woman, prompting a federal investigation.
Bernard Kerik - Had overlapping affairs with Judith Regan, the publisher of
his recent memoir, and a city correction officer. He used the same New York
City apartment for liaisons with the women. Accepted unreported gifts of
thousands of dollars in cash and other items from associates at a New Jersey
construction company while serving as NY police commissioner. Ordered to pay
a conflict-of-interest fine for using three police officers to do research
about his mother for his autobiography.
Guy Millner - Has been married three times, partly because he has sex with
women he isn't married to.
Rush Limbaugh - Cheated on at least two of his four wives. Dope addict. Used
his maid as a drug runner. Accepted plea agreement to avoid charges of
prescription fraud. On probation with mandatory drug screening. Avoided
draft during Vietnam by saying he had an anal cyst. Fired seven times.
Mitch Skandalakis - Hired hookers from his Las Vegas hotel room.
Rudolph Giuliani Married three times. His first marriage was to his second
cousin. He lived with his second wife while still married to his first wife.
His second wife found out through a press conference Giuliani was leaving
her for his assistant who he was having an affair with. Estranged from both
his son Andrew and his daughter Caroline.
Michael Deaver - Was so drunk he doesn't remember hiring hookers.
Richard A. Delgaudio - Nationally-known Republican party fund-raiser plead
guilty to producing child pornography after paying two teenage girls to pose
for sexual photos in a Baltimore hotel.
Nicholas Elizondo - Director of the "Young Republican Federation" molested
his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Earl "Butch" Kimmerling - The Republican anti-gay activist was sentenced to
40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to
stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Bill Randall - A Florida Congressional candidate and minister, he fathered
an illegitimate child during his affair.
Phil Gramm - Funded porn movie. Draft dodger. Laundered illegal campaign
funds. Wife Wendy corporate crook.
Rep. Bob Barr - Cheated on all three of his wives. Used pro-lifer's money to
get elected and then forced his wife to have an abortion. Also a member of
the CCC, a KKK like organization.
Bill McCartney - Promise Keepers founder who didn't keep his Promise to his
wife and then lied about it for 20 years.
George Will - Divorced his first wife, leaving her with a mentally disabled
child, for a younger woman.
Bob Dornan - Regularly beat his wife but he is a 'family values' republican.
Rep. Ken Calvert - Christian Coalition ally was caught by police in 1993
receiving oral sex from a prostitute. His ex-wife also sued him for failure
to pay alimony.
Rep. Dan Burton - Had at least six adulterous affairs, and fathered an
out-of-wedlock child which he ignores.
Rep. Robert Bauman - Homophobic Congressman charged with soliciting sex from
a 16-year old boy he picked up at a gay bar, admitted that he had been the