r/moderatepolitics • u/TheWyldMan • 3d ago

News Article Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/graham-platners-wife-flagged-sexually-explicit-texts-to-his-senate-campaign-628ec832?mod=e2tw
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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn 3d ago

Dang, he's a Democrat, so scandal matters. As a Republican he could live with an underaged boy, but, alas, he's a Democrat. The only one talking about impeaching Supreme Court Justices, too.

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u/TheWyldMan 2d ago

Dang, he's a Democrat, so scandal matters.

It's not the scandal but the repeated scandals.

Every thing that's continuing to come out reveals that he makes bad decisions and is willing to lie and hide them. The fact that these text were done only a couple of years ago also hurts his "I've matured" argument.

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u/Interesting_Total_98 2d ago

The outrage appears to be mainly from the right. People don't care about scandals as much as before. The president has gotten away with several things that are far worse.

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u/Jealous-Draw8467 1d ago

People still care about scandalous behavior, at least those of us with ethical standards. Principles, morality and and ethics still matter to some of us, unfortunately, there are just not that many of us left in this country who still feel that they matter. I would never vote for someone like Platner or Paxton and tell anyone that would that would that they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves and need to seriously reevaluate their personal ethics. The infedelity alone should be a giant warning sign that the person is not someone who can be trusted, but Nazi tattoos…or any tattoos for that matter…being charged with fraud and other…basically any….criminal behavior is just a step to far. We need a Senate full of Ossoff’s and Talarico’s and Mark Kelly’s, NOT Platmer’s Paxton’s and Cruz’s and their vile ilk.