What is UP With Those Conservative Perverts, Anyway?

Special Ted Bundy Edition

Ted Bundy, Young Republican
A writer at the inestimable Sadly, No! (who recently had a contributor infiltrate the CPAC arch-conservative conference posing as a lobbyist from the nonexistent American Milk Solids Council) has discovered an interesting piece of history and decided it would make for the start of the next great book of political theory:

After his discovery, Bundy became a more focused and dominant person. In 1968, he managed the Seattle office of Nelson Rockefeller’s Presidential campaign and attended the 1968 Republican convention in Miami as a Rockefeller supporter. […]

Bundy graduated in 1972 from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology. Soon afterward, he again went to work for the state Republican Party, which included a close relationship with Gov. Daniel J. Evans. During the campaign, Bundy followed Evans’ Democratic opponent around the state, tape recording his speeches and reporting back to Evans personally. A minor scandal later followed when the Democrats found out about Bundy, who had been posing as a college student.

Dear George Soros:

Please, please, please hook me up with a book deal so I can write a 500-page masterwork showing how all Republicans are really serial killers. I swear to God it’ll be better-researched than Jonah’s crappy book. Hell, just by using Wikipedia, I’ve already drawn upon more credible sources.

Indeed. The Wikipedia article is actually pretty well researched, and contains citations to several books, Bundy's FBI file, and so forth. Bundy, it seems, really was a Republican party official.

I really am beginning to think I'm on to something here, with the Conservative-Pervert Axis of Evil.

Sadly, No! should get in on the action. If Jonah Goldberg can get a book saying that Fascists are Liberal published, surely the bar isn't set too high for character assassination books.

Source: Sadly, No!
Wikipedia

There's Something About Florida (Not Just Bundy)
Now here's a really flagrant example of Conservative pervism:

Floridians were shocked last week when police announced that the spokesman for the state's Department of Children and Families had been arrested and charged with peddling child pornography. But buried in news accounts of the case was a curious detail: the official in question had listed the state's current Republican Governor, Charlie Crist, as a reference when he applied for his post in 2005.

Yes, you read that correctly. The spokesman for the Department of Children and Families was himself a child abuser, and has the state's Republican governor as a reference to land the job!

It gets worse though.

Gov. Crist returned to the news as the nation awaited the outcome of the Republican presidential primary in Florida. The Sunshine State's governor's endorsement of Sen. John McCain late in the campaign may have helped push McCain across the finish line to take the state's 57 delegates. Crist's endorsement also contributed to ending the campaign of Rudy Giuliani, who had heavily courted the governor's thumbs up.

Just after the Florida electoral contest, Tampa Bay police announced the arrest of Al Zimmerman, the spokesman for the state's Department of Children and Families. Zimmerman, a former TV reporter, was charged with 8 child pornography counts after taking photos of two underage boys performing sexual acts. Some evidence indicates that he may have met one of the boys on the job, and that he may have had additional victims. He could face up to 120 years in jail.

Yes, that's right! They politicized his arrest, keeping it secret until after the Republican primary, which McCain needed Crist's help to win!

Crist is of course now trying to say he never knew the man... but he can't deny the recommendation, it seems:

An AP report noted that the governor, "does not recall authorizing a recommendation for Zimmerman, but added that he often is asked to give them, spokeswoman Erin Isaac said Sunday."

But according to some earlier accounts, Crist was directly aware of Zimmerman and his work as on-air talent for a Tampa-area TV station.

So, what sort of work for a tv station catches the Republican governor's eye?

Insightful politcal reporting? Wonkish analysis of tax policy?

Try a pervy sex-piece!

As a reporter, Zimmerman also made waves. According to the Tampa Tribune, a report that Zimmerman completed called "Perverts in the Park" provoked controversy when it aired in Texas in 1996. The TV report focused on a public restroom in a park in San Antonio where gay men met for trysts. And when the news item was broadcast, Zimmerman forgot to digitally blur explicit sexual images recorded with a hidden camera.

Oh yeah, he's good with a camera, isn't he, Governor?

Sigh. If the Sadly, No! guy doesn't get to it, I might just have to write my own book on this subject. 'Conservative Perverts: From Sparta to South Florida'

Sounds good to me.

Source: Raw Story

Obama Supporters Too?
Finally, just to show that I can spot an emerging pervert trend even if it doesn't involve Republicans, we have an Obama supporter's aide who turns out to be a terrible, child abusing pervert!

A top official in Gov. Deval Patrick's administration is accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the steam room of a Florida resort and has been placed on unpaid leave.

Carl Stanley McGee, the assistant secretary for policy and planning, was arrested Dec. 28 after the suspected assault at the Gasparilla Inn and Club in Boca Grande, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

First Oprah runs a school full of pervert teachers, now this. Oprah of course thought the scandal was All About Her, for which I recall Keith Olbermann castigating her on MSNBC, amongst others. Patrick, who is already deeply unpopular, will probably have the same reaction.

Oh, and just because you KNOW it's going to be an issue:

McGee, who made $115,000 as a state employee, worked at Boston law firms before joining the administration. His marriage to John Finley IV in November 2005 was featured in The New York Times' Vows column.

Yes, McGee had a GAY MARRIAGE.

That surely led to this. It's the only possible explanation. After all, we never see good, Conservative men arrested for pervy or heinous sex crim---oh, wait.

We see that about once a week.

Source: Raw Story