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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:59 PM

Romney Tape Came From Estate Of Sex-Party-Throwing Hedge Fund Manager



Mitt Romney’s anti-47% remarks were made at a fundraiser by Mark Leder in Boca Raton. Leder is known for his Hamptons sex parties.

His “wild end-of-summer bash was the talk of the Hamptons this year,” the Post reported last December. “At the Bridgehampton home that Leder rented for a whopping $500,000 a month, guests cavorted nude in a pool and performed sex acts, while scantily clad Russian women danced on platforms. Dancers at the party also twirled flaming torches to booming beats.”


http://www.alan.com/2012/09/17/romney-tape-came-from-estate-of-sex-party-throwing-hedge-fund-manager/



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Reply Romney Tape Came From Estate Of Sex-Party-Throwing Hedge Fund Manager (Original post)
Tx4obama Sep 2012 OP
bluestateguy Sep 2012 #1
MrSlayer Sep 2012 #2
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #3
Hissyspit Sep 2012 #4
Tx4obama Sep 2012 #5
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #6
Tx4obama Sep 2012 #8
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #10
Tx4obama Sep 2012 #11
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #12
ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2012 #25
NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #7
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #9
NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #13
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #14
TroyD Sep 2012 #15
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #16
TroyD Sep 2012 #17
NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #18
Cirque du So-What Sep 2012 #27
Llewlladdwr Sep 2012 #30
ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2012 #26
Comrade_McKenzie Sep 2012 #29
agentS Sep 2012 #19
Cleita Sep 2012 #20
Tx4obama Sep 2012 #22
Cleita Sep 2012 #23
Tx4obama Sep 2012 #24
Whiskeytide Sep 2012 #21
mysuzuki2 Sep 2012 #28

Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:04 PM

1. I guess now we know why Jenna Jamison is supporting Romney

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:06 PM

2. Sounds like a good party.

He didn't do the speech at one of these parties, did he?

Because if not, who cares?

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:08 PM

3. So, is the Democratic party opposed to sex parties now?

Is someone having or attending a sex party shameful?

Why in the world is this even an issue?

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:11 PM

4. Uhhh...

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:31 PM

5. I think that the right-wingers that are church goers are going to asking 'why' ...


does Romney have a person fundraising for him that is known for throwing sex parties.

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Response to Tx4obama (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:33 PM

6. But why are WE talking about it?

I was under the impression that one of the core beliefs of the Democratic party was that your sex life was nobody else's business. Am I wrong?

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:41 PM

8. Did you not see all of the other DU posts regarding other sex scandals in the past


For example...
David Vitter
Anthony Weiner
Mark Sanford
and a hundred others.

I think that the news of Romney having a person that fundraisers for him that is known for sex parties IS NEWS,
considering he and the republican party are always spouting off about being the party of 'values'.


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Response to Tx4obama (Reply #8)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:45 PM

10. Indeed I have.

And I didn't understand it then either. It almost seems some Democrats support a very selective right to privacy.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #10)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:48 PM

11. When there is news folks tend to discuss 'the news'.


I don't know what to say that would help you understand.

Have a great evening.

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Response to Tx4obama (Reply #11)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:58 PM

12. There's probably not anything.

I guess I'm just seeing something here that others aren't.

At any rate, good evening to you as well.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #10)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:55 PM

25. Really?

You don't think David Vitter should be forced to resign when he runs his campaign on "family values" while visiting prostitutes?

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:35 PM

7. No, but the Republican party is.

The hypocritical rich Republicans think they can live by one set of rules while the lowly peasants have to live by another (which does not, I can tell you, allow for things like this.)

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Response to NYC Liberal (Reply #7)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 11:42 PM

9. So again I ask, why are WE discussing it?

Let the Reps talk about this if they wish. I thought Democrats supported a person's right to privacy regarding their sex life.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #9)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:32 AM

13. Because we are exposing their hypocrisy.

If a politician decides to be a hypocrite in telling everyone else they should act one way, then acting another way, that deserves to be exposed.

That same hypocrisy probably applies to their thinking of the law as president.

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Response to NYC Liberal (Reply #13)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:01 AM

14. But we aren't being hypocritical as well?

If our stated position is that a person's sex life is private then isn't an attack based on someone's sex life hypocritical?

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #14)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:11 AM

15. It's relevant to expose sexual hypocrisy by the GOP

As a general rule, someone's sex life is their own and is not relevant to most discussions.

However, the one exception to the general rule is when a politician or party that has engaged in discriminatory practices against others is caught acting hypocritically and in contradiction to their stated public positions.

I think what people above are pointing out is that the GOP is the party of 'family values' and the party that reprimands gay people and gay marriage as being wrong etc. and yet here we have another example of the Republican Party engaging in sexual behavior which is totally at odds with their supposed 'family values'.

And of course, the Republicans also have a lot of nerve criticizing celebrities in Hollywood for being promiscuous considering how much sleeping around they seem to do themselves.

That reminds me - was Newt Gingrich at this sex party?

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Response to TroyD (Reply #15)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:20 AM

16. But our stated public position is that a person's sex life is no one else's business.

Yet somehow we get a pass when we use a person's sex life to attack them because the other side is bigger hypocrits, or something.

I give up.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #16)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:27 AM

17. Ask someone like gay rights activist Dan Savage about this

He will point out that for people like him and his partner (who got married in Canada a few years ago) they find it appalling and hypocritical to watch people in the Republican Party denouncing them as immoral etc. and then find out that on top of that the same people who want to deny them sexual liberation have no problem enjoying that same sexual liberation themselves.

Republicans never seem to have any trouble enjoying the benefits of the sexual revolution themselves, but what to deny those benefits to others. And people are sick of it. Especially gay people, women etc.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #16)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:29 AM

18. It's not attacking their "sex life".

It's attacking their hypocrisy.

We're not saying the sex stuff is wrong. We're saying being hypocritical about what you tell others to do vs what you yourself do is wrong.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #16)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:59 PM

27. Somehow I doubt that you've really given up

given the number of times you've flagellated the deceased equine in a vain attempt to chastise democrats. See ya 'round!

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Response to Cirque du So-What (Reply #27)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:23 PM

30. I'm obviously in the minority on this.

It's my personal opinion that saying "A person's sex life is private and should be off-limits for political attacks" when what you really mean is "A person's sex life is private and should be off-limits for political attacks, unless they do something I disagree with and then it's on like Donkey Kong" is a bit hypocritical.

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #14)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:57 PM

26. When these men are making laws about restricting people's sex lives?

You don't see the conundrum there?

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Response to Llewlladdwr (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 07:36 PM

29. You don't have to be against something to use it in a negative light... this is politics.

 

If it works, then we should use it. If not, we shouldn't... but for no other reason.

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:08 AM

19. I'm mad as hell about this!!! OUTRAGE!

First off, the guy hired RUSSIAN dancers!!! How dare he not hire AMERICANS???!!! Has he not seen Jersey Shore? We have PLENTY of women who will perform sex acts in pools and dance on platforms! This is ridiculous!!! He outsourced our floozie positions to Russia of all places!!! No wonder unemployment is 80%!

Second off, how come we don't have parties like this? Maybe that's the reason we're behind Romney in big-money donors (besides not being pro-Israel fanatics, nutcases, or overly greedy)! We need to bridge this gap with BETTER sexually explicit parties!
Though I admit these parties MIGHT offend the feminists... we have to bridge the missile/shelter... er, Playboy wanna-be gap!

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:15 PM

20. So you approve of the scantily clad Russian women who danced on platforms?

These are Russian prostitutes that are often enslaved by their pimps. I don't think white slavery is quite consenting adults. At the very least they are illegal. You approve of that? However, let's face it, they probably couldn't find any women who would freely consent to entertain a bunch of old, pot bellied, lecherous men.

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Response to Cleita (Reply #20)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:18 PM

22. Who are you talking to? n/t

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Response to Tx4obama (Reply #22)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:47 PM

23. Sorry, I meant this post for those who think sex parties are fine

without looking into what is really going on. I don't believe this was between consenting adults like a swingers' party.

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Response to Cleita (Reply #23)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:52 PM

24. That's kinda what I thought, but I wanted to make sure :)




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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:17 PM

21. So, is there any chance...

... a tape of the sex party is going to be released?

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Response to Tx4obama (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 07:05 PM

28. A sex party?

My invitation must have been lost in the mail.

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