{"id":76562,"date":"2015-10-09T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76562"},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T00:09:39","slug":"why-do-politicians-have-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76562","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Politicians Have Affairs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/kevin-mccarthy-drops-out-of-speaker-race-no-explanation-in-nyt\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Politicians are eerily similar to actors and actresses in that they crave mass adulation. And they are seldom content with what they already have. I am not original in stating that politicians (rather like actors, again) are all too frequently people for whom they are the stars while their family and friends \u2013 even their children \u2013 are mere satellites.<\/p>\n<p>They are not normal people.<\/p>\n<p>As the great sci-fi writer Frank Herbert wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s not that power corrupts \u2013 it\u2019s that power attracts the corruptible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* What I don\u2019t get is if you\u2019re going destroy your marriage and your career, why not at least got for some beautiful young woman, not some 51-year old that looks like she\u2019s been rode hard and put away wet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * Politicians are eerily similar to actors and actresses in that they crave mass adulation. And they are seldom content with what they already have. 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