Political Hanky Panky
Ensign’s Extramarital -
June 17th, 2009
Extramarital affairs in politics are as American as steroids in baseball and crooks on Wall Street. What made Senator John Ensign’s confession of marital infidelity unusual yesterday was that his coconspirator in covert coitus, Cindy Hampton, not only worked on his campaign, but was the wife of his then-friend Doug Hampton, a member of the Nevada Republican’s staff.
Staffing a staff member’s wife? Humping Hampton, while her husband Doug worked to promote and push Ensign to greater political heights? That, folks, is colder than dry ice. Various news outlets are reporting Ensign came clean after being blackmailed by a former employee. Wonder who that might be?
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Number of prominent political leaders whose resignation Ensign called for: Larry Craig, Bill Clinton, and Ted Stevens. |
They don’t call me Tyrannosaurus Sex for nothing.
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Senator Ted Kennedy of Mass. (D)
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Kennedy dressed as Barney the purple dinosaur at his Christmas Party in 1993. Awesome.
President Warren G. Harding’s affair with the wife of an Ohio department-store owner nearly sank his political aspirations. After Harding won the Republican Party nomination for president, Carrie Fulton Phillips threatened to go public with her story. Fearing a major scandal, the Republican National Committee paid her $50,000 and sent her and her family overseas to Japan. She continued to receive checks and love letters from Harding while there. To this day, she is the only person that has ever successfully extorted money from the GOP. It’s not often you see a beaver take down an elephant.
Who’s Down With OPP?
| George Washington | Dwight Eisenhower | John McCain |
| Gary Hart | Lyndon Johnson | Bill Clinton |
| John Edwards | Franklin Roosevelt | John F. Kennedy |
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Some pundits pegged Ensign as the GOP candidate for a possible presidential run in 2012, but buffing out your buddy’s broad? That’s the kind of $hit that’ll keep you out of the White House. |
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