If by "today" you mean, "three days ago".

The internet is a race and you lost.

@1

Gee, that's the best come back that you can come up with? If I was that lame, I'd probably be very quiet instead looking like a tool, but keep trying there Skippy.

Darn.

Anyone who says "the internet is a race and you lost" lost.

Points for pushing them on the double standard, but he's simply no match for Hannity's neocon bait-and-smear. But that's how Faux News wants it, isn't it.

Regardless, double standards are one of the core foundations of the neocon belief system. The fact that McCain is a Republican absolves him of any wrongdoing.

So torture victims get an automatic license to cheat on their spouses for life? Is that how it works? Weird.

Russia invading Georgia. The Stranger dumping Ellen Forney. And now Alan Colmes actually saying something interesting and challenging his keeper. I fully expect locusts and plague by midmorning Tuesday.

Draft dodging, cheating on your wife, being a drunk and/or drug addict, lying to Congress and the American people and then covering it up, being implicated in campaign finance scandals, allowing yourself to be associated with loony and divisive religious leaders, changing your mind on issues of importance based on opportunistic reading of opinion polls -- all these things are only damming character flaws if Democrats do them. Otherwise, they're simple mistakes that anybody could make, mistakes that make you older, wiser, more experienced -- and it's in very poor taste to bring them up, thankyouverymuch.

Conversely, being a war hero only works in your favor if you're Republican. Otherwise it's just rank hypocrisy.

It's called a double standard. They work great if nobody ever calls you on it.

allowing yourself to be associated with loony and divisive religious leaders

When a Republican does this, it's not a mistake, it's desirable. It shows he's a man of God.

@ Dan: I agree with you, but McCain's adultery did end in divorce. At least it did with the first wife.

Come to think of it, that guy belongs in both categories.

What a Maverick!

McCain also dumped his wife after she was in a tragic car accident.

KO so we will bitch about this on Slog but guaranteed, the Democrats nationally and Obama will not figure out how to mount a sustained character attack on McCain an GOP the way the right has done to us for 50 years. D's are just too wussy.

@11: You of course know all about sustained character attacks.

reagan and mccain were consumers and they procurred richer more glamourous wives which is what big business is all about. edwards and clinton stayed small scale and how is that going to grow the economy.

I think it's yet another example of IOKIYAR -- “It’s OK If You’re a Republican”

I am shocked that Republicans talk show hacks would employ a double standard. Shocked. Shocked. Shocked.

What a crock.

The best part was that Hannity didn't even see it coming.

"Adultery that doesn’t end in divorce? (Clinton, Edwards.) That’s not okay."

Maybe, but don't think for a second that the MSM and the comedy skit shows on Saturday nights didn't try to break them up.

I love watching the "morally superior" getting their feet stuck in their own muck.

So the logic is that five and half years of being tortured and tormented understandably permits quit your wife and family

...but it's still okay be be President?

Seems the Right Wing is trying to play the "Mental Instability" card offensively.

I'm really glad that at a place and time in history where western civilization is faced with a burgeoning food shortage, seemingly unstoppable global environmental change for the worse, terrorism, the specter of a cold war redux, stagflation, rampant governmental corruption at virtually all levels, a rise in religious extremism worldwide, racial tensions, complications from an aging population and a rise in obesity-related health issues that threatens to bankrupt the United States for generations, I must say it's truly comforting to know that our watchdog news-media is keeping its focus on what's really important:

where powerful men like to stick their dicks.

Now, if you'll excuse me I believe there's a "America's Next Top Model" marathon I absolutely must watch.

I love how at the start Amanda Carpenter says while he was running Edwards had adopted "conservative moral values" -- sneaking in the lie that sticking by your sick wife makes you a "conservative." Idiot bitch!

(btw, thx for posting this, even if it was a day late. I wouldn't have seen it anywhere else.)

So where Hannity is concerned, there would have been no presidential administrations for the adulterers FDR (Lucy), DDE (Kay), JFK (Judith), LBJ (imagination fails but I'm sure he fucked someone besides Lady Bird), RMN (Bebe Rebozo), GHWB (somebody younger than Barbara) RWR (Nancy Davis), WJC (Monica), GWB (Johnny Walker and the whore, Cocaine)...

from Beijing: "Hu cares..."

@19,

(insert sound of Mr. X falling off of chair simultaneously laughing and weeping uncontrollably).

I remember seeing a quote from McCain, before the presidential campaign, saying that he couldn't really blame his adultery on his time as a POW, much as he would like to. I guess Hannity can do it for him.