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Senate Hopeful Ryan's Honesty Questioned

1 hour, 23 minutes ago

By MAURA KELLY LANNAN, Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO - Top members of Senate candidate Jack Ryan's own party are questioning his honesty after the unsealing of his embarrassing divorce papers, a controversy that some analysts say could sink his campaign.



Republican National Committee (news - web sites) member Mary Jo Arndt said Ryan misled her about the contents of the divorce records, which include allegations that he insisted that his then-wife, actress Jeri Lynn Ryan, go to sex clubs with him. Ryan denied the allegations.


The records were released Monday after a judge ordered the documents unsealed. Ryan and his ex-wife both fought the release, saying it would be harmful to their 9-year-old son.


"I feel he betrayed all of us by implying there was nothing detrimental in the sealed records," Arndt said. "I don't think he was protecting his son; I think he was protecting his political aspirations."


Ryan insisted Tuesday that he is staying in the race and expects to overcome the negative publicity. In the divorce papers, he denied his wife's allegations and said he had been "faithful and loyal" to her.


Ryan told reporters he "tried as hard as I could" to tell party officials what was in the documents. "I told everybody the exact same thing — there was nothing in the file that would prevent me from running for the U.S. Senate."


Other Republicans who once supported Ryan have distanced themselves from him, including former Gov. Jim Edgar, whose aide said Edgar wasn't given a full description of what was in the divorce files before they became public.


Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., called on Ryan to quit the campaign.


Political consultant Fred LeBed noted that polls already showed Ryan's opponent in the general election, Democrat Barack Obama, holding a wide lead over Ryan in a state that has been trending Democratic in recent elections.


"Someone who was bleeding before would now be a political hemophiliac," LeBed said. "I don't know how he can stop the bleeding and salvage this candidacy, particularly when members of his own party are calling for him to get out of the race."


Obama said he isn't interested in the allegations and wants to stick to issues.


The head of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, Sen. George Allen of Virginia, said Tuesday that he still supports Ryan.


Ryan "has the ability to forcefully articulate issues and ideas that matter," Allen said. "His ex-wife Jeri has said he's a good man and he's a loving father, and his in-laws have also talked about what an outstanding U.S. Senator he will be. So we are — I am — strongly supporting Jack Ryan."


Ryan said he will overcome the allegations because he didn't break the law, his marriage vows or the Ten Commandments. Other people accused of worse have been elected, he said.


"I think if that's the worst people can say about me in the heat of a difficult dispute, I think it speaks very well about my character," he told WBEZ-FM.


But Mike Lawrence, interim director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, said the allegations raise serious questions about the millionaire former investment banker-turned-teacher.


"I think it's going to be very difficult for him to run a credible race," Lawrence said. "This is not about some complex financial deal. ... These are allegations of a kind of behavior that people will react to."


The Chicago Tribune and Chicago TV station WLS sued to have the documents released.

I am Republican and I am kinky...
yesterday we got pic of President Bush with Laura,
we sent them $50 and I jerked off at their pic.

Jeri Ryan is a smoking hot babe!

Smoking hot.. no doubt.. I would be kinky with her.

Smoking hot.. no doubt.. I would be kinky with her. [/b][/quote]
She's so hot she can assimilate Republicans into having kinky sex! :inlove:

Actually, the funny part is that the smoking hot babe was totally turned off by it all, and the uptight conservative was dragging her to all these places.

Got to watch out of the quiet ones, I guess!

Alex

Here's the juicy part Mike's article left out:

Jeri Ryan said her then-husband took her on three "surprise trips" in the spring of 1998 to New Orleans, New York and Paris, during which he took her to sex clubs. She said she refused to go in the first and went into the second at his insistence.

"It was a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling," she said in the court document, adding that her husband "wanted me to have sex with him there, with another couple watching. I refused."

She said on arriving at the third club, in Paris, "people were having sex everywhere. I cried. I was physically ill. [He] became very upset with me and said it was not a 'turn on' for me to cry."

In his legal response to her allegations, Jack Ryan said while he did arrange "romantic getaways" for the couple, they "did not include the type of activities she describes."

"We did go to one avant garde nightclub in Paris, which was more than either one of us felt comfortable with. We left and vowed never to return," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/22/ryan.divorce/

I love his ideas of a "romantic getaway". hahahahahaha

well....Clinton was romantic too
;-))))

Here is a follow up http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0622041ryans1.html

His wife was hot. I recognize her from TV. I would have nailed her!

:okthumb:

Now who wouldn't lust after that?

http://www.xxxgalleryland.com/shirts/j32.jpg

http://www.xxxgalleryland.com/shirts/j50.jpg

haha that sounds like my idea of a romatic getaway :)

http://www.allahpundit.com/archives/000670.html

:lol:

Surprised no one had brought up this guy has the same name as Tom Clancy's hero. Maybe that's why he's running ... "Hey, I married and did it with 7 of 9. Clancy made me a hero. Think I'll run for Congress!" :awinky:

How the fuck did I ever miss that :blink: while in New Orleans

I like that in politician - man of action, not just an observer,
I see a DEFINITE leadership qualities there.....

MikeAI,
let's have a party at the Trapeze instead of my house
;-)))

I can almost hear in my head Forest's:
"Fat Republicans can fuck!"
;-)))))

Hahahah!! Good question Vick!!