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Monday, May 24, 2010

Politics / Sex Female Politicians Don't Have Sex Scandals...

Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM

...because they're too busy doing their jobs to have affairs. But it looks like one female politician—South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley—managed to make time for a man who wasn't her husband. Haley has been leading in the race for the GOP nomination after Sarah Palin endorsed her and she's been endorsed by all the pro-family/anti-gay groups. And it gets better:

Haley was once a close political ally of Gov. Sanford, but somewhat distanced herself from him after Sanford's affair came to light. Haley said the governor had "fallen short" in his behavior, but refused to join calls for his resignation. The Sanford-affiliated group ReformSC recently spent $400,000 on pro-Haley ads, and Jenny Sanford even compared Haley to her former husband in her endorsement of Haley. Neither Ms. Sanford nor Gov. Palin have said whether they still support Haley.

The Columbia Free Times has "been investigating a story involving an alleged affair between Haley and Folks for several weeks," and on Monday cited an unnamed source who claimed Folks privately admitted the affair in 2009. "Furthermore, the source ... says former Haley staffer B.J. Boling told him Haley had confided in him about the affair around the time Boling was working on her House reelection campaign in 2008," the Free Times reported.

Haley and the other candidates for governor recently participated in a debate sponsored by the Palmetto Family Council where they spoke about being maritally faithful while serving in politics. "You are being held to a higher standard and so you have much more service you have to give and you're a role model to everybody that follows you," Haley said during the debate.

Turns out she was screwing a (future) blogger. That's the very model of a modern major indiscretion.

UPDATE: If you can stand it, here's Sarah Palin endorsing the "strongly pro-life, pro-family" Nikki Haley, "wife of a military man," "mom," "and "reformer." Oh, and adulterer—let's not forget adulterer:

Looking on the bright side: if Haley did have an affair, she has a bright future on the pro-abstinence lecture circuit with Bristol Palin and Mark Souder.

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Oh, gurl

Posted by Baconcat on May 24, 2010 at 9:44 AM

Palin's right: Haley is trying to create as many lives in as many families as possible.

Posted by Lumpmoose on May 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM

Like'm or not, these Republican women pols are some nice looking wimmin.
Now, you're buttugly Democrap females (we'll offer the senators from Wash and Cali as examples...) couldn't pay someone to have affairs with them.

Posted by Hot Blooded on May 24, 2010 at 10:00 AM

Click through for pictures of her husband and her blogger/lover. Girl sure does have a type.

Posted by Luckier on May 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM

3, I see your Sarah Palin and raise you one Janice Shaw Crouse

Posted by Dr James on May 24, 2010 at 10:14 AM

Does anyone else find Palin's voice like an ice-pick in their ears?

Posted by HelpMeJebus on May 24, 2010 at 10:15 AM

5
eeewwwww-

Posted by .....that one we'll keep in the kitchen on May 24, 2010 at 10:18 AM

Actually, female politicians don't refrain from having affairs because they're such great paragons of virtue - it's because most of them are so butt-ugly that nobody wants to fuck them.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 24, 2010 at 10:25 AM

8
you miss a lot when you dont read the unregistereds

Posted by shoutout on May 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM

Sanford and this (potential) adulterer: South Carolina is now Sex Carolina. Is palmetto an aphrodisiac?

Posted by Banna

on May 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM

@10: No, I'd say that the secessionist tradition there can lead to seceding from marriages too.

Posted by venomlash on May 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM

THIS IS RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.

Posted by Josh Bomb

on May 24, 2010 at 11:47 AM

@3, 7, 9: When did you have your last orgasm with a willing female _anything_? I'm betting a good long time, if ever.

Posted by trollspotter on May 24, 2010 at 12:17 PM

Surely female politicians only appear not to have affairs at the same rate as male politicians because there's comparatively fewer of them.

Posted by Fistique on May 24, 2010 at 12:17 PM

It's the gin.

Posted by Vince on May 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM

@8 and the men who have affairs are handsome?

Posted by kersy on May 24, 2010 at 12:49 PM

Some are, Kersy (think John Edwards), but yeah, by and large, no.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM

Well, occasionally there are female politicians with scandals. Case in point: the deliciously sleazy affair of the 59-year-old, rabidly anti-gay, born-again Christian member of the Northern Ireland Assembly AND wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland, Iris Robinson, and her 19-year-old boy toy, who worked in her local butcher's shop. She has since resigned from the Assembly (citing mental illness as the cause), and her affair even cost her husband his seat in the Westminster Parliament during the UK general election earlier this month...

Posted by Slavek on May 24, 2010 at 1:34 PM

@18 That sounds hot.

Posted by kersy on May 24, 2010 at 1:57 PM