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Wonder if there is more to comeā¦
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What? No promising never to resign? No blaming the liberal media for ātaking his words out of contextā? No blaming te culture? Just up and quitting and going home to Mrs. Diehl who is waiting for him:
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I find it amusing that he apologizes for the texting. But not for having the totally unethical relationship period. Essentially he is apologizing for being caught.
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Thatās not Mrs. Diehl. Sheās holding the knife much too high.
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Wow, that may be a record for shortest time between, āI apologizeā¦and look forward to moving on with the important work of <government body>ā and āI resign from <government body>.ā
Iām a little surprised there wasnāt the boilerplate about āI donāt want the media frenzy to be a distractionā¦ā as though itās the mediaās fault and heās just a victim.
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There really isnāt anything about this story that doesnāt make me feel icky.
I mean, cāmon, on one hand I know Iāve had text exchanges that read a lot like these and I dare say many of the rest of you have. Some of us were in a sexual relationship with the person at the other end, some of us were in a āweāll never actually have sex and thatās what makes this so wrongā relationship, and thereās no way whatsoever to figure out which is which based on the exchanges. And, regardless, the idea of one of those exchanges being published in the paper is just horrifying and reading them makes you feel like a greasy voyeur or a snooping scandal-nosed Gladys Kravitz.
But then you get to the "heās a married guy in his fifties doing this with a college freshman, for godās sake and sweet jesus, itās just so wrong! And then you get to āholy crap, that poor girl must be mortified.ā I mean I canāt even work up a good case of schaedenfreude because of that. And then thereās the tiny lingering doubt about who was manipulating who in the whole thing.
Just . . . ick.
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Does he REALLY expect ANYBODY believes him when he says he did not have sex with the college intern?
I mean come onā¦ Just read those messagesā¦
But we all know why he is dong this; he hopes his wife will believe him.
Simple as that.
Oh, and, of course, then thereās the absolute certainty that one or more of the truly repulsive fringe figures who slink around the edged of rightwing media are going to out this girl for no reason whatsoever, unleashing a disgusting torrent of dudebro slut-shaming. I can hardly wait for that part.
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Diehl also ignored questions about the text messages when reporters caught up with him Wednesday night outside his office, although he responded with a firm ānoā when one reporter asked if heād had sexual relations with the intern.
Liar.
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It is even worse ā as this morally upstanding husband filed an amicus with the Supreme Court arguing for the āsanctity of traditional marriage.ā The man is a major prick ā and not the good kind. He is also an asshole ā and, again, not the good kind. āIckā doesnāt begin to describe this clump of cell tissues.
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I give him a little credit for resigning without too much pre-resignation lying. That said, he is a liar. It should all come out in the divorce proceedings.
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OK, is his wife going to ācut it off and throw it out the windowā or is she just going to quietly continue taking the money?
What a putz. Lost his job, pissed off his wife, embarrassed his kids and STILL didnāt get laid.
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Iām surprised he resigned. Usually Republicans gut it out with a claim that Jesus forgave them so itās all good, while their wives stand next to them pretending to believe this crap. Might be fun to find out why he really resigned that fast.
He sure changed his tune since yesterday.
My bet is there is way more to this, and he canāt tie up all the loose ends. He probably doesnāt even know where all the loose ends are in this day and age. So he will ride off into the sunset instead.
Now if you want to get into some serious conspiracy stuff, there IS an alarming number of very disturbing stories bubbling up about the MO State GOP party lately, from leading gubernatorial candidates killing themselves, with others following in his footsteps, to this.
Then like Elliot Spitzer and David Vitter he persuades The Wife to stand by his side while he humiliates her. Hope she gets a chunk of his savings and retirement account when she walks out.
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Oh, and, of course, then thereās the absolute certainty that one or more
of the truly repulsive fringe figures who slink around the edged of
rightwing media are going to out this girl for no reason whatsoever,
unleashing a disgusting torrent of dudebro slut-shaming. I can hardly
wait for that part.
The texts found their way into the media somehow, and I think we can all agree it probably wasnāt the Honorable State Senator who leaked them. That leaves one other party here: the intern herselfāunless it was someone she knows who leaked them without her consent. So whatever slut-shaming is coming her way, one would hope sheās prepared for that, because it was her actions that triggered this sequence of events. (I am NOT blaming her for her role in this, but it would appear she IS responsible for this thing going public.) Who knows, maybe she set him up on purpose? Lord knows these hypocritical family values assholes are all easy pickings for a sting of this type, and richly deserved it is.
Thatās a good photo of Catherine Hanaway of the Tom Schweich suicide scandal with the God -fearing, now former Speaker of the MO House. Looks like she was his right hand man. Wonder if Diehl was also part of the Jewish āwhisperingā campaign that ended with Schweichās death. There is so much corruption in Jefferson City since the social conservative Republicans took over the legislature joining in an unholy alliance with billionaire Rex Sinquefield.