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<p><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Newt Gingrich's affair with someone he
met on the job should not surprise anyone. When it comes to sex,
politicians are just different from most Americans. </b></font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">Newt has been fooling around with
some little filly, and now he's getting a divorce presumably to
marry her. At least, unlike another famous philanderer, he knows
her name. There are even rumors of tapes establishing the above,
though -- in fairness to Newt --there is not even a hint of perjury
before a sitting federal judge in a citizens' civil rights case,
witness tampering, or concealing evidence, among other things.</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">Still, Newt's travails will undoubtedly
perk up the Everybody Does It devotees.</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">This -- the most pernicious of
lies used to defend Bill Clinton last year -- is not true. According
to The Social Organization of Sexuality, the most comprehensive
scientific study of the sexual behavior of Americans ever performed,
75 percent of married men and 85 percent of married women have never
been unfaithful.</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">But review that last sentence:
The study probed "the sexual behavior of Americans," not, you will
note, "the sexual behavior of politicians."</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">Americans correctly intuit that
these are rather different categories. In my favorite poll from
the Lewinsky scandal, published in <i>Time</i> magazine on September
28, 1998, respondents were asked whether they believed Clinton's
moral standards were "higher than," "lower than," or "about the
same as" the average married man. Naturally, most picked "lower
than." Three percent said "higher than," which makes you wonder
if Clinton himself somehow got polled.</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">But when comparing Clinton's morals
to the "average member of Congress," the winning answer was "about
the same as" -- 57 percent of those answering. Only 35 percent of
respondents thought Clinton's moral standards were below that of
the average congressman.</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">Even discounting for the effect
of the White House spin machine, capable of persuading some percentage
of Americans that the earth is flat, Americans are quite correct
to notice a difference in the sexual behavior of politicians compared
with normal people.</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="-1">In another important poll -- again
conducted for <i>Time</i> (and CNN) last December -- respondents
were asked whether they believed that members of Congress were more
or less likely to engage in adultery than the average married man.
Only 7 percent said "less likely." Thirty-nine percent of those
answering said "more likely."</font></p>
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