"Personal morality"

[supergee]

Jerry Falwell Jr. says that we shouldn’t judge the president by his “personal morality” (by which he means, as his kind always does, sexual morality). I think the blind pig has found an acorn. Trump’s politics should get him thrown out of office, and his business dealings should get him locked up, but the adultery is his business. Any political scale that ranks Richard Nixon ahead of Martin Luther King is broken.

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[marahmarie]

I dunno, but am leaning toward "not OK with the adultery" because we already know who this guy is: objectifying of, denigrating toward and dismissive of women who probably cheated in a non-consensual way (behind his wive's backs, without their permission or knowledge, which has done nothing but embarrass them in the revelation) which speaks to his (lack of) character and respect for others, much less those he's vowed to honor and obey the rest of his life.

Call me a mite old-fashioned, I guess *shrug*

Editing to add: and yeah, I had a problem with Clinton cheating, too, and thought/still think less of him for it. The only reason I endured it was because by the standards of those days he was, to my mind, an excellent president, so I didn't want the country to have to lose him over his personal issues. Back then we were all much more dismissive of such things, though (I wasn't, but Majority Opinion was 'Eh, boys will be boys', so).