Why Do Sex Scandals Destroy Democrats But Not Republicans?

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20. because scandalized republicans can still create tax loopholes for donors.

republicans are best thought of as employees of corporations, and as long as corporations find them profitable, they keep them around. especially given that firing a republican often means hiring a democrat, or at best, hiring a neophyte, weak republican, corporations will invariably take the view that the most profitable action would be to pour more money into supporting the scandalized republican to diffuse and confuse the situation.


but who's going to back a scandalized democrat like that way? the big money dries up real fast, and then there goes the public support.


in short, democrats need to be either saintly or a kennedy. otherwise, scandals are poltiically deadly.
republicans need to be greedy, selfish, corrupt bastards. scandals are largely irrelevant, or if anything, evidence that they are indeed greedy, selfish, corrupt bastards -- so what's the problem?