"Duke" Cunningham was Bi-sexual??

OK. I thought I saw this somewhere yesterday. Here it is. Digby at Hullabaloo offers the gossip about Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Viet Nam era Navy Fighter Ace, Top Gun pilot, and highly bribed Congressman is reputed to be bi-sexual. The initial source for this is The Washington Blade.

Cunningham, who is married with grown children, has admitted to romantic, loving relationships with men, both during his Vietnam military service and as a civilian. That was the remarkable story that this publication reported two years ago, when Elizabeth Birch, the former Human Rights Campaign leader, inadvertently outed Cunningham at a gay rights forum.

Birch never mentioned Cunningham’s name, but she talked about a rabidly anti-gay congressman who asked to meet privately with her in the midst of a controversy over his use in a speech on the floor of the House the term “homos” to describe gays who have served in the military.

Alone with Birch and an HRC staffer, the unnamed congressman shared that he had loved men during his life. In telling the story, Birch offered up a few too many details about the closeted congressman.

A few Google searches later, the Blade reported that it had to be Cunningham, whose career was pockmarked with bizarre gay pronouncements, including a reference to the rectal treatment he received for prostate cancer, something he told an audience “was just not natural, unless maybe you’re Barney Frank.”

There’s every reason to believe Birch’s inadvertent outing, even as Cunningham denied it through a spokesperson.

This is, after all, a man without principles, who could "love men" in private, all the while condemning gays in speeches and in congressional votes. Little surprise that he could live a second double life, in which he sold those unprincipled votes to the highest bidder.

I am not too upset about the "Duke"'s choice of bedmates. That's between him and his family - and his bedmates. My problem is the hypocrisy. It's just another case of Republicans who will say anything to gain and keep political power, so that they can abuse it as Cunningham did when he took $2.6 million (which he has admitted) in bribes to use his public office as Congressman for the narrow benefit of his bribers. It isn't the sex. It's the duplicity - like Jim and Tammy Faye Baker and Jimmy Swaggert.