More Kinky Republicans

Yesterday I was going on about the bizarre sex habits of Republicans (you know, mule-fucking and stuff). Democrats are the tolerant ones in the midst; I'm simply pointing out that these over-moralizers are unbelievably hypocritical when it comes to sex.

There's more to this story. John Bolton, who apparently is going to get his ass out of the Foreign Relations Committee without a recommendation (thanks to the good Senator from Ohio, Mr. Voinovich, who had enormous pressure to cave and sort of punted), has a bit of a past his own self:

Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato’s Retreat, the popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“The first Mrs. Bolton’s conduct raises the presumption that she fled out of fear for her safety or, at a minimum, it demonstrates that Mr. Bolton’s established inability to communicate or work respectfully with others extended to his intimate family relations,” said Mr. Flynt. “The court records alone provide sufficient basis for further investigation of nominee Bolton by the Senate.” These court records are enclosed here as an attachment. Mr. Flynt continued, “The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must be free of any potential source of disrepute or blackmail.”

Larry Flynt is, well, Larry Flynt, but this woman left her husband during a trip to Vienna in two weeks in 1982 and never returned is telling. Then she took most of the furniture. That's not a partner in an amicable breakup. Something was making her leave, and fast.

Then there's the case of Bush FDA appointee Dr. David Hager (go read the whole article, it's heartbreaking):

According to (ex-wife Linda) Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent. Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was so abusive if he had just wanted normal [vaginal] sex all the time," she explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual nature of the [anal] sex that was so horrible."

That's rape. It doesn't matter if it's with your wife. Nonconsensual forced sodomy is rape, and depending on the state, the sodomy itself is a crime (or at least was up until a couple years ago).

President Bush appointed a rapist to the FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs.

There is so much repression in the Republican Party I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mass head explosion at the next Convention.