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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaterGaetz
Matt Gaetz has always been a sleaze. He was unfit to hold political office even before the new allegations against him.Jonah Goldberg
1 hr ago
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If youve been paying very close attention to my oeuvre, you might have gleaned that I think Rep. Matt Gaetz represents almost everything wrong with the GOP and our politics generally. One clue might have been when I wrote last February, The GOP should ditch the symbol of the elephant for a meme of the gasoline fight from Zoolander, with Matt Gaetz getting jiggy to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
There was never anything personal about it. Ive never had a conversation with him. I did see him at Foxs D.C. studio a few times, occasionally accompanied by a young woman in a very short, tight dress whonot to traffic in superficial stereotypeslooked like her purse probably contained a fresh pack of condoms, a portable credit card reader, and a recently refilled prescription of tetracycline.
But Gaetzs romantic life was never the source of my animosity. I put romantic in scare quotes because, if reports are true, his lifestyle doesnt strike me as particularly romantic. Negotiating bulk discounts on sex, assigning point values to different conquests (with alleged bonus points for virgins), and hammering out the details for orgies doesnt quite fit my understanding of romantic. I mean, Pretty Woman is a decent romantic movie, even though it centers on a prostitute. But I dont recall Richard Gere sharing nude pictures of Julia Roberts with Ralph Bellamy and Jason Alexander.
Until this week, my objections to Gaetz were quite politically high-minded rather than comstockish or prudish. (I will say that even though I am only about a dozen years older than the guy, he does arouseso to speakmy inner cranky old man and a desire to use grumbletonian language that is out of step with the times. Even if hes not a confirmed philopornist, hes certainly a crapulent cacafuego and coxcomb who, when not busying himself with organizing seraglios of slatternly driggle-draggles, serves as one of Americas foremost rhetorical bescumbers.)
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WaterGaetz (Original Post)
catbyte
Apr 2021
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genxlib
(5,524 posts)1. To hell with him
Anybody that publishes a book called "Liberal Fascism" can forever eat shit and die.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)2. Here's a sentence for the ages
Even if hes not a confirmed philopornist, hes certainly a crapulent cacafuego and coxcomb who, when not busying himself with organizing seraglios of slatternly driggle-draggles, serves as one of Americas foremost rhetorical bescumbers.)