Between Arnold, Dominique, and Bin Laden's porn collection...

[Bicoastal]

...this hasn't been a very good week for male integrity.

Oh well. At least there's always the vindictive fun of watching serial adulterer Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign go up in flames.

[plcdude]

1. but at least

were consistent.

[MineralMan]

2. Power corrupts.

That old saying is true in many cases. We see the results of it all the time.

I am never surprised when a powerful person abuses that power to harm his "lessers." Nope.

And so it goes...

As my father once said, "People who seek power should never be allowed to attain it." My father is a very smart man.

[Fumesucker]

6. I'm not so sure that power corrupts..

Although I'm dead certain that power is magnetically attractive to the corruptible.

[seabeyond]

8. dead certain that power is magnetically attractive to the corruptible.

i will never remember that... but i really like this. absolutely.

[lunatica]

7. I think you have it wrong

The corrupt seek absolute power. Power is just power, just like money is just money.

[MineralMan]

9. My father's statement includes that.

It is the act of seeking power that is suspect. As you say, the corrupt often seek it. Determining who is corrupt is difficult, until they have actually attained the power to exercise their propensities.

[Taverner]

10. Kurt Vonnegut also said that anyone who runs for president is insane

Because you'd have to be insane to want that job...

I know I butchered his statement here...apologies

[blondeatlast]

3. But a lot of powerful men didn't rape, cheat on their wife,

of murder thousands of people by remote control, either.

[Iggo]

4. delete

[dynasaw]

5. Don't forget the Donald

and his amorous adventures. The litany of republicans and right wingers and their extra curricula activities goes on and on: Sanford, Ensign, Gingrich, Limbaugh,Rudolph Giuliani, O’Reilly, ,Barr, Bohener etc. etc. All part of family values.

[Amonester]

11. Some male integrity, that is.

Not all (of course).

Ok, MANY male integrity, but still not all.