Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Paul Stanley Quits Tennessee Senate, Asks Forgiveness, Bashes Bloggers
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM
"Up until an hour ago, my plan was to stay in the Senate. We decided the best thing to do for my family was to go ahead and resign. ... My first priority was what was in the best interest of my family." "The first thing I had to do was ask God's forgiveness and ask for the forgiveness of my family. I hope some positive things will come out of this and maybe it'll be an example for others." "I fell short ... On any given day we have all said or done something that we would not like to see on the front page of the paper. Well, mine just happened to make it to the front page of the paper." "I'm not trying to paint myself as a victim. My initial actions were what brought this on. I take responsibility for that."More of Stanley's comments:
"I want to apologize to the constituents who have shown their trust in me for the last nine years by letting me serve in both the House and the Senate. After this incident took place, I sat my wife down and told her everything. Let me say she's an incredible person and I love her very much and she has stood by me throughout my entire career and throughout our marriage. We have been dealing with this for a long time as a private family matter. When it did go public obviously it creates a lot of stress on a family. So when it did go public the first thing, I had to do was ask God's forgiveness and ask the forgiveness of my family. but I also want to ask the forgiveness of the constituency that I serve and I hope there can be positive things come out of this and maybe it'll be an example for others." "I have been criticized lately for the positions I have advocated in the past, the pro-family positions, moral positions, whatever, whatever I stood for and advocated I still believe to be true. And just because I fell far short of what God's standard was for me and my life doesn't mean that that standard is reduced in the least bit. It was interesting that Planned Parenthood is attacking me for I guess talking about my views on sex and whether it should or should to be outside of marriage, that is what it is. My sin in that again does not negate the fact that God sets a high standard for us and we all need to strive to reach that standard although in a sinful nature it's very hard to do so." "First of all, the people who called for my resignation publicly I have never spoken with or they never contacted me about that. And so I understand that people do things for politically expedient reasons. Throughout this process in the friends and individuals that I confided in, I have been shown so much grace and mercy. All I can do is simply state to the people out there and those specifically listening today is that I fell short and that I ask for their forgiveness and that I hope that it's accepted. What I find is that almost without exception, we all know that on any given day we have all said or done something that we do not want on the front page of the paper. Well, mine just happened to have made the front page of the paper." "I don't have to be in politics to have a full and complete life. It's really not a priority for me right now." "I think a lot of people express frustration with the changing professionalism of journalism. That is, journalists used to have to verify sources and verify information before they put it out there. I guess with the blogosphere and just more people being engaged and the advent of the Internet, people get on the Internet or the airwaves or whatever and just say whatever, and I think they need to be more cognizant of they way they treated ... Look, I'm not trying to circumvent my responsibility for what I did wrong at all. That it's in the media, do I want it in the media? Absolutely not, for the protection of my family. But I wanted to make sure that I take responsibility for it, I do the right thing, I believe I have done that. Anyone's else's opinion moving forward, I'm going to leave that to them. Again, I hope that they will understand and forgive me and accept my apology and move on. For those who don't, I hope they can find peace somehow and be able to reconcile in their own lives when they fall short why their sins should not be forgiven."
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This hosebag still can't be honest.
If his first priority were truly what was best for his family, then he obviously could have found a way to keep his pants on. Second, while it's surely true that all of us have done things we wouldn't want to see on the front page of the paper, most of us have managed not to sleep with 22-year-old interns whom we were supposed to be mentoring.
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No kidding. This is the biggest pile of horsecrap. "I fell short." Repeatedly? Please.
And bagging on Planned Parenthood for pointing out the truth? What a charmer. He still thinks he's right to screw over young women, even though he...
Oh, right.
I believe one secretary, two interns, and two lobbyists is pushing the limits on forgiveness for God, his constituents and his wife.
"I don't have to be in politics to have a full and complete life," Stanley says. But having that sort of power does help your love life, doesn't it. Notice that in all of these relationships involved a potential abuse of power. You didn't hear any apologies for that did you.
Oooo, he's going heavy on the victimhood here, especially the Planned Parenthood part. The wife beater and adulterer wants to lecture people from a women's clinic? That's funny. But he's probably right about one thing: His wife is a saint for staying with a piece of shit like him.
Simply put, he is in severe denial; he waited to see if the revelations about Morrison's past could save him. However, when first Wiseman and then Norris called him out to resign, he had no choice.
They had the guts to do what Ramsey wouldn't do, and that needs to be remembered.
"I think a lot of people express frustration with the changing professionalism of journalism. That is, journalists used to have to verify sources and verify information before they put it out there. I guess with the blogosphere and just more people being engaged and the advent of the Internet, people get on the Internet or the airwaves or whatever and just say whatever..."
There's no finer example of that than PostPolitics today. The MSM may be cumbersome and sometimes sanctimonious -- and even hypocritical -- about its "ethics" BUT if putting up stories that make sweeping allegations about a man or a woman WITHOUT A SINGLE NAMED AND ON-THE-RECORD SOURCE is the future of journalism, we're doomed.
"So when it did go public the first thing, I had to do was ask God's forgiveness and ask the forgiveness of my family."
no need to ask for forgiveness until your career is at risk...it is not a sin unless another person knows about it, right? great christian principles at work.
When are the wives of these idiots going to stand up for themselves and kick these snake oil salesman in the rear and out the door?
And as is ever the case, the old canard of "I am being criticized for my positions on issues," or some such tripe, is being exhumed.
You're being criticized for living and acting in direct opposition to those stated positions, sir. Not for having them. It's the hypocrisy, not the intern-boinking, that rankles.
When a person decides to become a public figure they better make sure their past is cleaned up or accounted for, and they better make sure that they act with integrity while they do their job, because their private life fairly well doesn't exist anymore. And all of the equivocating in the world won't change that fact. Perhaps if he had actually been living by the real tenants of Christianity this wouldn't have happened, but he seems quite representative of much of the statistics of the modern church in America; the faith has not permeated the core of the character, and thus we see the choices made being of a self-centered and self-righteous quality. Pride does indeed go before the fall. Conservatives are much better off without him in office.
The only thing he's sorry for is that he got caught,I bet he wishes he never took those photo's if indeed he did.Wonder who really took the pictures and are there any pictures.
You obviously missed the bulk of the story so far: the TBI agent testified there are pictures of the young woman, sometimes sans clothing, in "provocative positions." TBI has the photos. A TBI affidavit posted last week by Channel 5 refers to the photos.
I think his first priority was his c o c k, not his family.
Morality indeed, Heteros. Morality, indeed.
Why is it always 'Christian' Republicans?
One would think, by now, that these 'family values' guys would be an IMMEDIATE red flag to voters.
In the future, voters, the only thing we can be sure of is that anyone who is using the 'moral' platform of 'family values' for their term in office will turn out to be a devil in disguise.
Wait and see, he will be a registered lobbyist in 366 days after leaving office. He no doubt will be consulting for special interests before then. Big Daddy Ramsey has no doubt promised to take care of him if he will raise enough money in Shelby County for his campaign
Time for Americans to stop pointing guns at store oners, bank tellers and gas station attendants.
