Popular water-cooler theories:
1) For men, sex and power are very connected. On a caveman, evolutionary level, a key perk of being powerful is having sexual bounty. For women, sex isn't about power. It's about (I'll let my women readers fill in the blank) _________.
2) Women actually care more about their kids. No mother would risk the disruption to the family and kids.
3) Women have been in power for less time and are more conscious of squandering the opportunity.
4) They do have affairs but are better at covering them up.
5) This is a statistical phenomenon. There are more male politicians. When half the Senate is women, half the affairs will involve women senators.
What's your vote? Other theories?
UPDATE: James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal:
"The real answer is that successful politicians, who usually are middle-aged or older, tend to have the qualities that make men superficially attractive to women (status and power) but to lack those that make women superficially attractive to men (youth and beauty)."
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Has everybody forgotten Helen Chenoweth, the Montana congressional rep who was fooling around during the same period as the Clinton impeachment? Obviously she was (statistically speaking, that is ;-) ) an outlier.
Well........this only shows what men really think with. ha ha
Just kidding.
Look at Clinton. He didnt just have one affair he had multiple affairs. He did not care if he got caught, he didnt care that it hurt his family. Didnt he coin the phrase, oral sex is not sex?
And look at John Edwards. He chooses to have an affair while his wife is battling a terminal illness. He ruins his career and he drags his family through the mud.
These guys dont care. "If I could take it back I would."
No way. They would have just been smarter about getting caught.
No, Clinton did not coin the phrase "oral sex is not sex." So far as I know, he didn't even say it. It was a quote from some Baptist teenager, who said that was what he and his friends all believed, and that Clinton, after all, had been raised Baptist too.
However, Clinton really DID coin the phrase "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
ML was not 'horrified'. The whole thing was orchestrated and planned by the Republicans. She was well rewarded and overjoyed by her success.
Remind me again why my 24 year monogamous, true, faithful and loyal partnership with my husband is a threat to Christian America and men like this deserve our trust?
I guess, I won't choose any of the possibilities because there are too many factors involved in the equation for a simple answer. Given that we now know that the whole 'women multitask, men don't' is nonsense and all the other crap evolutionary psychology has promoted over the last years (men are genetically programmed to be hunters, women to stay home and clean out the cave) I think the only serious answer can be found in this jerk's head.
He delights in attacking gays and transgendered, why be surprised he should turn his hatred upon his wife? It's always the same game with the christianists.
I'm with JB. The only affair a woman politician is likely to have will be at the Lighthouse for the Blind.
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