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Political Sex Scandals We Love

January 16th, 2008 by The Babe

Is there anyone who doesn’t love to watch the powerful fall from grace? Political sex scandals seem particularly exciting when the culprit appears to be hypocritical — an especially anti-gay politician involved in gay sex; a racist politician carrying on an affair with an African-American woman; or, in the case of Eliot Spitzer, an aggressive prosecutor of corruption and immorality, including prostitution rings, caught up in the very same.

Our politicians can often take these affairs to new levels. Sometimes it seems that when politicians hold news conferences, it’s to announce an illicit affair. Here’s a few of my favorite sex scandals:

A Revolutionary War-time newspaper articles rumored George Washington had extramarital affairs.
Thomas Jefferson was accused of having sex with both his wife’s half-sister and his slave.
Alexander Hamilton publicly confessed to an extramarital affair.
President Bill Clinton’s affair with his intern Monica Lewinsky. The scandal almost threw Bill Clinton out of the White House. Bill Clinton who told Dan Rather he cheated with Monica Lewinsky “just because he could.”
The Governor of New York State, Eliot Spitzer, was forced to step down after his involvement in a prostitution scandal.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury in a sexual scandal investigation. Kilpatrick was elected as Detroit Mayor at the age 31. He was the youngest mayor in the United States, and was once considered as a promising political star of the Democratic Party.
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey who resigned because he cheated on his wife with a male employee who threatened to expose their same-sex affair.
Democratic hopeful in 1988, Gary Hart, famously withdrew from the race after being caught in the Donna Rice “Monkey Business” sex scandal
Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva made a public apology over his use of taxpayers-funded phone to send about 200 dirty text messages to an erotic dancer Johanna Tukiainen and her sister, as well as his “special relationship” with the Tukiainen sisters.
In France, Prime Minister François Mitterrand’s mistress stood next to his wife at his funeral.
The Profumo affair developed after Profumo had a brief relationship with a showgirl named Christine Keeler, who was also the mistress of a known Russian spy, and then lied in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it. The scandal forced Profumo to resign and severely damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s government.