Why Do Voters Stick With Hypocrites Like Scott DesJarlais? - The Daily Beast: "ep. Scott DesJarlais—currently with a 38-vote lead over his opponent—will win the Republican nomination and a chance to continue representing Tennessee’s fourth congressional district. ... Because according to political watchers, DesJarlais’s political future was D.O.A. thanks to revelations linking him to not just one, but numerous scandals that involved sex and stuck a knife right into the heart of the conservative’s family-values posture.
Democrats fought successfully to have DesJarlais’s divorce records unsealed—although a judge delayed the move until after Election Day in 2012. The documents painted a contradictory picture of a man who campaigned as a social conservative but behaved as anything but. According to the documents, DesJarlais supported his wife’s two abortions before their marriage – despite being vocally opposed to abortion in his political life. He also engaged in affairs, including with patients. "
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