If we had moral requirements that had to be met before a person could run for office: Jefferson would have been disqualified because he had several children with one of his slaves. FDR would have been disqualified because he had an ongoing relationship with his nurse and rarely saw Eleanor. Lincoln would have been disqualified unless he could disprove the rumors that he was homosexual. Eisenhower would have been disqualified because he and his driver were an “item” all through WWII. Kennedy was an active womanizer, Marilyn was his favorite, but almost surely not the only one. Clinton “didn’t have sex with that woman”, which is unlikely even in that case and he was involved with other women in Arkansas, unless half the state is lying. And, I don’t know what the other 50 something presidents were up to because I don’t care enough to research it, but I doubt if I couldn’t dig up something if I tried.
I’m not defending Moore, but if we actually had to prove that we had never done anything sexually that we would rather not have on the front page of the newspaper, I think we would have a very limited selection of candidates.
If we had moral requirements that had to be met before a person could run for office: Jefferson would have been disqualified because he had several children with one of his slaves. FDR would have been disqualified because he had an ongoing relationship with his nurse and rarely saw Eleanor. Lincoln would have been disqualified unless he could disprove the rumors that he was homosexual. Eisenhower would have been disqualified because he and his driver were an “item” all through WWII. Kennedy was an active womanizer, Marilyn was his favorite, but almost surely not the only one. Clinton “didn’t have sex with that woman”, which is unlikely even in that case and he was involved with other women in Arkansas, unless half the state is lying. And, I don’t know what the other 50 something presidents were up to because I don’t care enough to research it, but I doubt if I couldn’t dig up something if I tried.
I’m not defending Moore, but if we actually had to prove that we had never done anything sexually that we would rather not have on the front page of the newspaper, I think we would have a very limited selection of candidates.