The affairs of Reagan and the conservatives who went after Clinton
Ronald Reagan was revered by conservatives - even to the sickening point of naming a building and airport after him in Washington, D.C. But how many know about Reagan’s extramarital affairs, including how he reportedly had sex with mistress Christine Larson as Nancy Reagan gave birth to daughter Patti? Or that he was regularly known to engage in extramarital sex with various Hollywood wannabe actresses? 22
How many know about Nancy Reagan alleged intimate affair with Frank Sinatra in the White House? 23
Remember how much the media played up Monica Lewinsky’s blow jobs and Paula Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton in the 1990s, while ignoring or downplaying extramarital activities by the hypocritical Republicans who served on Clinton’s impeachment committee like Henry Hyde and Bob Barr?
Hyde, who chaired that committee, had an affair of his own for about five years with the married Cherie Snodgrass in the late 1960s. Hyde, who was in his 40s and a married Illinois state representative with four kids when he had the affair, didn’t deny the relationship. But he said, “The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions.” Of course, for Republicans, anything they do under age 50 falls under the category of “youthful indiscretions.” 24
Snodgrass’ husband, Fred, told Salon.com that Hyde was a “hypocrite who broke up my family.” Cherie declined to talk to Salon, but her daughter said, “She knows she wasn’t his first [mistress], and she wasn’t his last. She hates his anti-abortion stuff and all the family values stuff. She thinks he’s bad for the country, he’s too powerful, and he’s hypocritical.” 25
Barr, the hypocritical author of “The Defense of Marriage Act,” had an affair while still married to Gail Barr and married Jeri Dobbin a month after the divorce became final in 1986, according to testimony in the divorce case. Neither Barr nor Dobbin denied having the affair when asked about it repeatedly. 26
Then in 1992, Barr licked whipped cream off the chests of “two buxom women” during a Leukemia Society charity event. The Washington Post asked him if he would “engage in such conduct if he had it do to all over again.”
“Heavens no!” he replied. “It was a charity event ... and people were having a good time.” 27
But Barr reportedly did “engage in such conduct,” right during the time when he piously criticized Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. Kevin Jeys of the Chico Examiner wrote that Barr slipped away from his wife in 1998 to lick whipped cream off the breasts of another lap dancer at a D.C. bachelor’s party. This came after Barr told The Post he would not do that again. 28
Contrast the way Republicans reacted to Clinton’s affairs with that of fellow Republican Congressman Bob Livingston, who they chose as House Speaker in late 1998, only to learn Livingston had affairs of his own. CNN reported that Livingston’s confession, which only came after publications like Roll Call reported Livingston’s affairs, “that he had been unfaithful to his wife drew first gasps, and then a standing ovation and declarations of support from Republicans at a closed-door caucus.” 29
So the message was if you have an affair and you’re a Democrat, you get impeached. But if you have an affair and you’re a Republican, you get applause and support.
Other conservative hypocrites who castigated Clinton for sins they committed themselves included Congressman Dan Burton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, presidential candidate Bob Dole, and Sen. Strom Thurmond.
Burton, who once called Clinton a “scumbag” in the midst of the public sexual witch hunt, admitted during the 1998 proceedings against Clinton that he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child out of wedlock when he was a state senator in the 1980s. Burton said on PBS, “This is something that happened a long time ago.....The boy and the mother and my wife and my family and I have all reached an agreement about this a long time ago.” 30
Schwarzenegger’s campaign responded to one accuser the usual way Republicans do - with another lie. The campaign sent an email to the media suggesting that Hollywood stuntwoman Rhonda Miller had an extensive criminal background. The Los Angeles Times reported that Miller did not - it was someone with the same name who had the criminal record. Miller said Schwarzenegger groped her on a movie set in 1991, pulling up her shirt and photographing and touching her breasts as she fought him. 5
Bush and Rove told their own lies about supposedly staying out of the recall effort and not hypocritically supporting the adulterer and criminal. Bush advisers met with Schwarzenegger as early as 2001 to get him to run for governor. Rove himself met with the groper in early 2003. Before the recall, proponents and representatives of potential Republican candidates met at the Los Angeles office of Gerry Parsky, Bush’s top California adviser, to discuss the effort. 6
So much for Republican family values.
The Bush affairs
There is no shortage of stories on the Internet about alleged extramarital affairs involving the Bush clan. But for whatever reason, including that the media was owned by conservatives, they were not popularly known.
Besides the Schoedinger case, Bush Jr. was linked to a 39-year-old Texas woman, Tammy Phillips. The former stripper was quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an 18-month affair with Bush that had ended in June 1999, while Bush campaigned for the presidency. 7
Phillips said she was introduced to then-Texas Gov. Bush by her Republican uncle in Dec. 1997 during a political event in Midland, Tx. She said that she and Bush, who married Laura Bush two decades before, made “passionate love” that very day.
However, that raised a red flag right there. I can’t see the attention-challenged Bush making “passionate love” to anyone, unless such was defined as lasting ten seconds or less. The Enquirer also said that the uncle disputed introducing Bush and Phillips, who I could not reach for comment.
Republican cheaters go way back in history
The list of prominent Republicans who cheated on their spouses went way back in American history.
James Garfield, who was president from 1880 to 1884, reportedly had an extramarital affair with Lucia Calhoun in the 1860s. His wife, Lucretia, discovered the liaison and made him choose between staying married or getting a divorce. Garfield chose to say married. 37
Warren Harding was more than the Republican president who presided over the scandalous, bribe-taking Teapot Dome administration in the early 1920s that ranked with the Bush Jr. one for the most corrupt in American history. Harding had numerous extramarital affairs, including with Nan Britton, who was 31 years younger than him. In fact, Britton bore Harding a child one year before he won the presidency. 38
Harding and Britton had sex in White House closets, bathrooms, and offices, even as Harding’s wife, Florence, remained in other parts of the White House. 39
Britton was not the only extramarital relationship that Harding, who died in office of a heart attack, had in the White House. In fact, Carrie Phillips, who had been a German sympathizer during World War I, attempted to blackmail Harding and was paid hush money by the Republican Party. 40
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