While it is disturbing how many of our elected offcials are getting in trouble with the law - this article was a bit unfair in its comparisons.
What Robinson, Cooper and Bowman did were awful - but those crimes are not on par with raping a child.

Especially from the pro-family, pro-life advocates who claim to care about children….When they’re not cutting kids from medicaid, hospitalization, or school lunch programs….
Hey, you look good in that Thomas Train T-Shirt.

Most criminal acts by politicians, those well connected when at all possible, their crimes are protected by those in higher places. This is just a scratching of the barrel of criminal officials and authorities. Don’t think so?

News people like to take bipartisan groups and lump them together as though they are or were equivalent in some way when, in fact, they are very different. It plays into the public stereotype of politicians being bad people and both parties being the same.

In this case you have four very different cases where lumping them together is really quite inappropriate.

Muschany’s crime is a deviant, reprehensible sex crime not unlike the sorts of things we are getting used to seeing conservative, “family values” Republicans getting nailed for–the gay Republican Congressman Foley is just one who comes to mind or Lt. Gov. Kinder’s former chief of staff wh was sentenced today. This sort of sex crime is repulsive in the extreme and is certainly much worse than gay Republican Sen. Larry Craig’s embarassing airport bathroom sex situation or Sen. Mark “put a diaper on me” Vitter’s prediliction for prostitutes and dressing up games. But what Muschany’s crime highlights what is now clearly a pattern of frequent and quite extraordinary hypocrisy on the part of so many Republican politicians and preachers who claim to be conservative, who wear a rigid set of “moral values” on their sleeves that is typically characterized by an invasive, judgemental and overbearing penchant for controlling what they denounce as “deviant” behavior. Yet, all along they themselves are engaging in behaviors they have loudly condemned for years and often their own behaviors are worse than those they have railed against. It is instructive for citizens to understand how this sort of long, loud public display often is an indicator that the moralizer “doth protest too much” and that they should be wary of those who so loudly condemn the private practices of others and insist that everyone conform to a rigid set of behaviors and mores. In Muschany’s case, any civilized person rejects such behavior.

In Cooper’s case we find a calculated, deliberate and repeated violation of the law by a licensed Attorney who understood quite well how illegal and serious was his crime. Here again, another conservative Republican and a vocal moralizer is found to be a notoriously unethical hypocrite.

John Bowman’s case is a simple one of fraud by a man in over his head who thought he could get money for nothing. He was a two bit operator who obviously couldn’t manage much of anything very well. He got to Jefferson City (not exactly the center of the political universe) and thought (like many of them) that meant it was time to get his. A sad, pathetic and humiliating end, but an isolated case of simply corruption.

Brad Robinson’s case is one of stupidity and panic. Like all too many politicians throughout history, he found himself in a bad situation that could embarass him politically so both he and his wife try to hide the reality in a moment of collosal poor judgement and stupidity that has now cost them both far more than the embarassment of the truth would have. Sad, but not symptomatic of a wider, common problem.

Certainly their crimes do not compare in severity, but let’s not forget the drunken antics of Ray Salva and Chuck Graham. Has anyone ever studied this problem statistically? It appears to me that the legislature has far more criminals, on a percentage basis, than the population as a whole.

disgusted, in fairness to Muschany, he is not charged with “raping a child”; the charge is deviate sexual assault, which entails such conduct as fondling a child or, in this specific situation, using the child’s hand to fondle himself. It’s pretty sick behavior, but it’s not raping a child.

that is just an ignoramous thing to say…..either way i hope he gets put in with an oversized prisoner that happens to have two daughters at home.

SPSLE;
Physcological rape doesn’t count… right?
She may be screwed in the head for the rest of her life, but get over it.

I like the spin that Robinson’s “accident” took place New Year’s Day. It happened at 1:00am. Now he may have been going out looking to help homeless with his car full of people, but logic tells us he was heading home after having a few.

Baggio, the legislature and the NFL seem to have similiar criminal incidents.