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Republicans: Hold Your Nose and Vote…

Republicans are suffering the greatest repercussions as they have come across as hypocritical individuals, championing themselves as the party in favor of family values and yet failing to adequately deal with scandals within their own party. The timing of this incident, combined with the backdrop of the disaster of the war in Iraq doesn’t make the future look to bright for Republicans. Maybe they should be catering the following message: hold your nose and vote.
The media has been treating the Mark Foley sex scandal as the single underlying factor in this election. While I do not wish to condone the matter, or try to mitigate it, I think that it’s important that citizens focus on selecting candidates who will promote values that they support in legislation on defense, tax cuts, the environment, economy etc, and not allow this one incident to undermine the eligibility of all Republican candidates. Selecting another party’s candidate on their basis of the claim of a “higher standard of morality and ethics” is naive. Democrats have had their share of scandals and corruption, and have not necessarily dealt with them any better. Representative Gerry E. Studds, Democrat of Massachusetts who became embroiled in a sex scandal is just one example.
Anyone with a basic superficial glance should be able to gather that the Democrats are using this “clean up the senate” business as a political gamble to win congressional majority and not necessarily because their party is going to be any “cleaner”.
Thus my point here isn’t to defend the Republican Party, just to say that crooked politicians come in all sizes, shapes and forms. Congress is overall corrupt and sleazy, and switching parties isn’t going provide any long term solution.