Republican Hypocrisy Scandals
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Mark FoleyFmr. U.S. Representative36 Years in GOP
10/15/06Had sexual relations with two former male pages and sent dozens of inappropriate and sexually suggestive emails and instant messages to underage male pages over a yearslong period while also having voted in favor of numerous pieces of anti-gay legislation throughout his time in Congress
10/15/06Asked a 16-year-old male Congressional page to send him photographs of himself and inquired what he could buy him for his birthday over five emails that the page said "really freaked" him out and made him feel "sick"
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Richard RoachFmr. District Attorney6/26/06Routinely stole methamphetamine and other strong narcotics from police evidence lockers and openly injected himself with drugs in front of his office secretary while also being a District Attorney who was a fervent prosecutor of drug offenses who secured very harsh drug sentences
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Dick CheneyFmr. U.S. Vice-PresidentAEI Conservative of the Year (2009)2/12/06Shot his hunting partner Harry Whittington in the face, neck and chest with a 28-gauge shotgun from only 30 yards away which resulted in him being admitted into the ICU at a local hospital and didn't report the shooting publicly for nearly 24 hours and only did so after a local news station reported on the incidentAccording to reporting by mainstream outlets -
Richard RoachFmr. District Attorney6/02/05Hid two guns in a briefcase that he attempted to bring into a courthouse with him and was also found to be carrying methamphetamines and cocaine when court security searched himAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Joshua WheelerFmr. Political Aide [R-KS]6/01/05Attempted to enter the US Capitol with an unregistered handgun that Capitol Police found during a security checkAccording to charging documents filed by Capitol Police
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Jim WestFmr. Mayor [R-WA]5/05/05Tried to woo an 18-year-old man with gifts and other favors he found on the website Gay.com who turned out to be a professional investigator hired by a local newspaper while he was married and after having hypocritically spent two decades in the state legislature pushing anti-LGBTQ legislationAccording to an investigative report by The Spokesman-Review -
Allen WestFmr. U.S. Representative12/13/03Fired his gun inches from the head of a detained Iraqi police officer after his subordinates beat him in order to gain information that the detainee later described as "meaningless information induced by fear and pain" in violation of international law and was fined $5,000 by a military courtAccording to the results of the military hearing reported on by the media
Hypocrisy and shamelessness are innate to today's Republican party, and they cannot survive as a viable national party if they told the truth and behaved with integrity. And Republican politicians also cannot win their primaries if they behaved with integrity and told the truth to their voters.
When your policies are extreme and unpopular, you have to lie to the American people in order to maintain power. All that lying leads to hypocrisy. You take an extreme stance against abortion even though you supported it when it impacted you. You spout self-righteous pithy lines on "family values" but engage in extramarital affairs with escorts, have pregnancies outside marriage or don't take care of children you had outside of a marriage. You or your loved ones are gay, but you support anti-LGBT legislation.
It's not wonder so many Republican scandals are rooted in hypocrisy.