Why hasn't there been any MAJOR scandals and corruption

[FarLeftRage]

amongst the Democratic Party in American history?

I am thinking of ones such as Credit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran-Contra, gee-dumbya's "terms"... etc.

Off the top of my head, only the minor, localized ones come to mind.

Is the Democratic Party that pure???

Just asking.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. No it is not

and you forget that one reason the dems were voted out of office were the real scandals

Did I mention a Congressman even ran from jail where he was serving for corruption not too long ago

It is just that dems believe a little more in open government

[FarLeftRage]

2. If you mean the things that the Congressmen Wright and

Rostenkowski were involved in... well, don't you think they're minor, compared to today?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. And others, but they were standard for the time

reality is that if this executive does not face the music though the dems just became accessories, or at least the leadership

[truedelphi]

3. Aren't you forgetting that awful conduct that led Mr Clinton to face impeachment??

Funny, the Dems' scandals (like Kennedy and Gary Hart) involve sex. While the Republicans' scandals are sex with little boys and money, money, money!!

[FarLeftRage]

5. Well.... now, a private matter betweenst

2 consenting adults does not constitute a scandal... in my book.

[Thothmes]

8. Not all

Tammany Hall in the 1900s was a Democratic political organization.

[truedelphi]

10. Having grown up in Chicago, I'd have to agree

My dad went through school with the Hon Richard Daley (The First)

He was constantly offered the chance to be the top accountant for Da Mayor's City.

Always turned down the opportunity. And eventually was able to show my mom exactly what he meant by the levels of duplicity needed to work in accounting under Da Mayor - at least one of the top people there went to jail.

[chknltl]

4. History may show that our current congress as part of a large scandal

Taking impeachment off the table, an overall impression of spinelessness, the 'do-nothing congress' and etc. hints at something bigger that is being kept from the general public. Whatever the truth is, it may be a scandal within our party equal to or larger than any of the ones you have used for comparisons.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Exactly and this is something

a lot of folks still have their heads in the sand over.

[ZombieHorde]

9. Depends on how you look at it...

My sister in-law said that even if Bush did lie, and that lie caused many many deaths, that lie would not be as bad as the blow-job Clinton got.

She feels that sex that she does not approve of is worse than murder.

She is a great person, but her sense of ethics is very different than mine.

[seasat]

11. The more conservative you are the more likely involvement in a financial scandal

It makes sense to me sense the folks more likely to bribe a politician are more likely to have large corporate interest in legislation. While not impossible, under the present day with much more media coverage, it's hard for a labor union or activist group to bribe a politician. It's easier for an exec at Exxon to funnel a bribe directly to a congress person through a lobbyist and those most favorable to them are likely to be Repub or conservative. The few Democrats, like James Trafficant, that were caught in bribery scandals were usually more conservative.

[Cleita]

12. Right now complicit and corrupt Democrats are creating scandals

and displaying criminal behaviors that I believe will go down in history, that is if this fascist regime gaining a stronghold in this country allows history to be written.

[slackmaster]

13. The Presidential election of 1960 is regarded as fraudulent by some historians

The city of Chicago has a long history of questionable activity perpetrated by Democratic machinery.

And there was the infamous Pendergast machine of Kansas City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pendergast

And there was Huey Long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long

But never let little things like like that get in the way of a DU "Collective Vanity Post".