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Some of us have already expressed reservations about our reactions to the Hart sex scandal. Why, we ask, should Hart be any more capable of keeping his pants on than the rest of married America? Perhaps public officials are held to higher standards than the citizen body at large, but it still is not apparent why we need a president who is a model of libidinal restraint...
...these questions, while not wholly irrelevant, miss the point. Hypocrisy is nothing new for Americans, and, like it or not, many think that marital fidelity is an important campaign issue. Also, the press is somewhat vindicated by Hart's invitation to follow him. As most political pundits have been quick to note, anyone who is dumb enough to ask for camouflaged reporters deserves to get them...
...MOST disturbing thing about the Hart scandal is not that Americans want a monogamous president or that the Miami Herald chose to print its story. Instead it is this country's preoccupation with the details of Hart's personal life, details that go way beyond the particulars of the current scandal. The press has been eager to chronicle Hart's rate of intercourse since he hit puberty, and the American public has lapped up each tidbit of gossip with unyielding fervor...
...clear that we are interested in much more than an evening of pleasure off of Bimini. What was Gary Hart doing with Warren Beatty back in the McGovern campaign, we ask. What about his talk of "reform marriage" and his carousals with leading members of Hollywood's den of iniquity...
...questions themselves are not enough for us: we want explanations as well. Taking on the guise of armchair psychologists, we point to Hart's puritanical mother. Perhaps his childhood of repression was the key to his adulthood of lechery. When we are at loss for answers we turn to "experts" such as former Hart pollster Pat Caddell who, in the most ominous of tones, confides to us that Hart has had a long-standing political death wish...