Discussion: Missouri GOP House Speaker: It Was 'Poor Judgment' To Sext With Intern

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He’s sad, not because the ¨buck stops here,¨ but rather because the fuck stop here.

Sexist creepy abusive homophobic asshole.

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Still not to the level of a state senator who is also a dairy farmer who is refusing to resign his seat in the last week of the legislative term who was pretty much caught red handed forcing women to have sex with him to pay rent, possibly starting the abuse when one of the women was under the age of consent, and threatening to pimp the women out to his dairy workers. The police are still investigating, and you know something…Maddow’s right, this one is going to be hard to beat.

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Well, I guess there’s no accounting for taste. I’m trying to put myself into a woman’s perspective, here, probably not very well, but if I were a woman, just one look at this guy would make me want to burn every bed on the planet.

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Missouri GOP House Speaker: (…but the gays are still icky.)

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“Used bad judgment,” “work to restore trust,” boy, the classics never get old, do they? I’ll bet they include that one in the folder they hand out at the orientation session for new state legislators.

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Well, I grant you that, but he hasn’t asked anyone to “pray with me”…,yet.

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Poor Judgement doesn’t quite cover it, slime ball.

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Speaker John Diehl (R) said in a statement, as quoted by The Kansas City Star. “I apologize for the poor judgment I displayed that put me and those closest to me in this situation.”

Who then went on to say: “OK, now that that’s over, let’s pass some anti-gay marriage legislation because they’re ruining the sanctity of marriage!”

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Poor judgment is ordering fries instead of a salad or wearing a checked shirt with plaid pants. There are many who think that, whether there was actual physical contact or not, this is still adultery. If I were the wife and my husband was texting that he wanted to make another woman “quiver” I think I would most certainly feel betrayed and all the other things you would feel if actual physical contact had taken place. The pain is the thing and this, to me, would be devastating.

Reply to Ralph: It has nothing to do with looks. I live in a state capitol and there are women who are “power” groupies. The man can be a toad but if he has power (real or perceived) there are women who will line up to service him. Also, young women are especially vulnerable and some sickos take advantage of that. Plus, if she’s a political intern, she is probably already enamored with power, which makes her an easy mark.

Don’t you just love how he protects the sanctity of his own marriage. He’s a slimy piece of excrement).

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I have a buddy that works in construction, and when he sees a nice looking young women likes to jokingly say: “I’d gladly do the crime if I could only do the crime.”

Without further details, I am not convinced that it was “poor judgment.” Maybe wanting to continue his political career is ‘poor judgment’. Maybe he should hang up his gavel and go whole hog (pun intended) on the sexting thing. Although I don’t see where the money would come from, but what do I know? To paraphrase Charlie Harper from 2 & 1/2 Men “$1,500 gets you the ‘speaker of the house’ treatment” sexting-wise.

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I love the latest cliche on the lips of every hypocritical republican. When he resigns, I’ll bet it will be either to “seek new challenges” or “spend more time with my family.”

Wasting the lives of soldiers who wanted to defend our country just because you wanted to make sure you got re-elected was not ‘criminal,’ it was ‘poor judgement.’

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Looking at the picture of this guy, I think it was the intern who showed ‘poor judgment’.

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Poor judgment is a grown man putting emoticons in his texts.

Utter slimeballery is a good Crischun trying to fool himself that a 19-year-old intern would find him attractive if it wasn’t for his job.

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“Poor Judgment”, is that an euphemism ?

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Just by looking at him, I can tell that this was just a youthful indiscretion.

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Turd tries to make peace when it realizes it’s begun circling the bowl. Story at 10.

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Death, taxes and divorce lawyers. Tell your kids a sure fire career will always exist as a mortician, a CPA or an amoral vulture picking the flesh off the wreckage of human relationships.

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Poor judgment–huh. That’s one word for it, I guess.

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After seeing HIS picture, I keep wondering what the INTERN looked like. I mean, if the guy was ruggedly handsome and looked like a Greek God instead of a manatee, maybe I could kinda, sorta understand it. I wouldn’t approve of it but I’d UNDERSTAND it.