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You're a smart guy, but I'm not sure you understand American politics as well as you think.[/quote]
Oh I understand that this will reduce Stanford's chances at electoral success. I also don't think that adultery is okay (except within the confines of an open relationship, in which case it's not really adultery), but I don't think it's a world-shattering crime as compared to taking bribes or being a raving socialist.
Where I live, we just had a minister convicted of taking bribes and he's whining that he's been racially discriminated against because he got four years in prison while another minister (who got caught stealing money from a Holocaust memorial charity) got five.
I'm sorry if I can't help but think that a guy like Sanford is awesome as compared to the idiots I observe in office in my own country, on a daily basis - or, to that end, the guy who's in charge of your country, right now.