Why Don't Women Politicians Have Affairs?

Human nature tells me that there's a bit of all of those explanations involved. You forgot one more part of the equation: our culture is sexist when it comes to age. Powerful people who have affairs tend to behave in a similar fashion to powerful people who swap out their spouses for a new trophy. They generally get younger and more attractive versions of the current one. There's a smaller pool of younger men willing to have affairs with older women than younger women willing to have affairs with older men.

Steve,
Just as recent brain scans of teenagers have revealed that kids under the age of eighteen lack certain logical/cognitive functions, so too I bet that if you gave a middle-aged man (or maybe any man) a brain scan while in a state of high sexual arousal, you might not find any sort of reasonable person there. Like nobody's home in the brain right now. Just instinct and drive. The old adage for men "Don't let your Little Head do the thinking for your Big Head" applies nicely here.

Also, if we view our male politicians as "pack leaders," maybe the pack leader's instinct is to keep a harem so the pack will long survive. Just another theory.

I guess it's well established that when women get busy, especially older women with families and the schedules of senators, their interest in sex isn't stimulated. In fact, it just shuts down. She can't even find it when she has time to look for it. She's gathering eggs, nesting, pulling people together to plan. It's all she can do to go grocery shopping when the day is done. And look around for some comfortable shoes.

CM

They are too busy proving themselves, trying to pay bills on salaries that are 1/2 of that of their male peers and trying to break through the glass ceilings preventing them from holding corporate and other high level positions.

Women politicians would have as many affairs as men politicians had they had someone willing to participate.
Too bad for them young men don't find you more attractive because of all the power you posses, but are more interested in qualities like youth and beauty .

Since women are drawn to middle ages man with lots of power, men politicians have many women standing in line to choose from.

Now what that makes of women ?

Have you taken a look at female politicians lately?

What men desire is not what they have. That's reality.

Women should use their youth and beauty to find a man who is likely to stick with them. Instead, most of them spend it on useless fools and they end up with unhappiness which is what they so richly deserve.

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.

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.