mikenimzo wrote on June 25, 2009 05:33 AM: Mark Sanford

Michael wrote on June 19, 2009 09:41 PM: So, it's a "personal matter" when a sanctimonious Republican Senator breaks one of the Ten Commandments. That's OK. He's forgiven. As long as he's against gay marriage, heath care reform, environmental protection, and for the war in Iraq and lowering taxes. So much for, in Ensign's own words, "the sanctity of [marriage, which], predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation."

Len Czyzniejewski wrote on June 19, 2009 02:48 PM: It took several readings of this to make sure I was reading a serious editorial, and not a satire of someone who will defend their side no matter what their side does. Yep, it's apparantly meant to be serious.

At least you folks are letting dissenting opinions such as mine, which does allow both of us to yap about what we think. Let's all remember the powers in Iran are not allowing this right now.

It's too easy to point out that the Hollywood crowd is composed of entertainers, while Ensign built his career with marital fidelity as one of it's major cornerstones, or to put it more plainly, selling points.

But I'll put in my two cents on what was said in the last paragraph of your editorial, where "It is to be hoped he does not back down for a single day from that role". As I understand it, he has already missed more than a "single day", by missing a vote on tourist legislation, something that Nevada could be a beneficiary of. Seems he'll be taking a week or so off from that "job Nevadans elected him to do". AND resigning his leadership position gives our state less influence.

His actions have already hurt Nevada.

Dennis wrote on June 18, 2009 02:08 PM: Who ever wrote this needs to read the following out loud in front of 5 people 3 times.

I M Sofa King We Todd Did.

matt wrote on June 18, 2009 12:41 PM: And I wonder why the RJ has never won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing…your paper is pathetic and this editorial is crap.

Shoreline_US wrote on June 18, 2009 09:48 AM: a little nugget from 1999 in WaPo {Sept 30th, pg A14)

...Christian politicians and evangelical leaders commonly follow an unspoken rule not to meet behind closed doors with women staff members or travel alone with them. The Rev. Billy Graham, for example, has famously refused to be alone in a room with any woman except his wife since he married her in the 1940s.

Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.), a Christian conservative, insists a male staff member is present whenever he meets with a woman, his spokesman said. John Ensign, who is running for senate in Nevada will not be alone in a car with a woman...

Sam wrote on June 18, 2009 07:17 AM: The "predictable cries of hypocrisy" from "leftists" (or anyone else out there who is not completely blind to hypocrisy) are such because Senator Ensign's immoral acts are indeed hypocritical! Give me a break. I am more than tired of this type of hypocrisy. If you want to jump up to the podium and shout out accusations and condemnation of those who commit adultery, like Senator Ensign has done on so many occasions, it is then HYPOCRITICAL to commit adultery! "Leftists," you claim, are "only spared the label because so little is expected of them, it's worth pointing out that this is a personal matter." WHAT??? I guess it would follow, then, that you believe former President Clinton's transgressions were "a personal matter." Oh NOOO, of course not! Yet again, the double standard. Is there anything you people REALLY believe? Anything? Senator Ensign loudly voiced his condemnation of Clinton and even Larry Craig (another blaring example of hypocritical behavior), like he was the epitome of moral virtue. Newt Gingrich was another, railing against Bill Clinton's adultery, always speaking of religion and moral mandates by which he himself chose not to abide. He not only cheated on his wife (who put him through graduate school), he served her divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from uterine cancer surgery! I turn on my TV and there's old Newt, a pillar of your party...still. But alas, I know...God forgives Republicans, right? All other adulterers must burn in hell. Funny how you conveniently twist your so-called "values" to justify any discretion. I can only hope God is more consistent than the hypocrits in the GOP who claim to uphold Him so.

John Klenert wrote on June 18, 2009 04:32 AM: Your last editorial comment about Ensign remaining a model for a government limited in size and intrusivness is just plain silly bordering on a lie. Ensign voted to amend the Constitution to protect the marriage institution from same sex equality. He also voted to ignore DC citizens by adding a "guns for everyone and everywhere" in DC and even in National Parks. I guess he forgot that Lafayette Park in front of the White House is a National Park too! I hope the people of Nevada will do their fellow citizens a favor and not re-elect him next time.

Jerome wrote on June 17, 2009 09:43 PM: What everyone seems to talk around is the fact that Ensign's affair was with a married woman -- whose husband worked for him. "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife."

Double whammy. Deception, betrayal, disloyal, disrepectful. This man cannot be trusted.

Kathy wrote on June 17, 2009 07:35 PM: Please tell me someone didn't just use "Ensign" and "principled" in the same sentence. Tell me I didn't just see that. My eyes hurt now.

He has almost as many principles as the "journalist" who wrote this piece of garbage editorial. The affair was a vast left-wing conspiracy? The fault of trial lawyers and unions? Come ON!! What did they do, strap him to a motel bed for a year? Give people some credit for common sense. Ensign did this all on his own, and I'd bet the only force behind his coming forward was the GOP itself, rather than wait for someone to spring it on the public in 2012.

Had it not been for that, this "family values, sanctity of marriage, Promise Keeper" hypocrite would still be in there lying away about how much holier his way of life is.

Sheesh. RJ, I know you're slightly to the right of Limbaugh, but still. Show a little integrity, for heaven's sake.

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