Imagine if Barack Obama knocked up Ashley Biden. Or if John Kerry fathered a kid with Ayla or Arianna Brown. Or if John McCain dallied with Lindsey Graham's — whoops.
Incredible, no? And yet that's pretty much what we have, now that former Republican Senator Pete Domenici has revealed the 34-year-old love child he had with the daughter of Paul Laxalt, also a former Republican Senator.
In short, it's the latest breathtaking example of the GOP's we-can't-let-gays-get-hitched-because-we-revere-the-institution-of-marriage-so-much hypocrisy. Yet check out the society columnists in The Washington Post, chirping away about l'affaire Laxalt as if it were completely normal.
(Regarding that article, we cats must take a moment to quibble. We have no idea how a guy who's written extensively for right-wing media can claim to be a "private citizen," nor how the circumstances of his birth qualify as a "sacred situation." We'd call this a lot of things, but "sacred situation" isn't one of them.)
Anyway, amazing. We cats searched in vain for something similarly bizarre, but our paws have come up empty. You'd probably have to go back to Strom Thurmond and his half-black daughter for comparison, and even that doesn't quite track. After all, a family maid is not the child of a Senate colleague.
Which reminds us — as we've wondered with Strom, and knowing the Republicans' fondness for unlawful carnal knowledge, was Domenici-Laxalt a rape? America wants to know!
P.S. We cats also won't bother pointing out that Pete Domenici voted to impeach Bill Clinton, although of course we realize that we just did.
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