Steve Miller wrote:

> Maybe what angers voters is not the scandal, but hypocrisy.  Someone who is
> perceived as "liberal" on social issues is less of a hypocrite for having an
> affair than is someone who runs on a "family values" platform.

Gary Hart was a liberal in good standing, but he is the textbook case of
a politician ruined by a scandal.  Clinton is probably a bigger
hypocrite given his effort to co-opt the family values stuff.
-- 
                        Prof. Bryan Caplan                
       Department of Economics      George Mason University
        http://www.bcaplan.com      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
     "But being alone he had begun to conceive thoughts of
      his own unlike those of his brethren."

              --J.R.R. Tolkien, *The Silmarillion*

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