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Originally Posted by pigglet
That's my point - they are breaking their campaign promises. Is this a semantic question of "promise?" They say one thing, they do another. Is their public representation of their private lives during campaigns / at political meetings / in office - in your opinion, how do you characterize or label that? To me its a lie.
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A broken campaign promise is a statement like "If elected, I vow to provide free milk to all children under 6", and then, having been elected, not providing said milk.
That's not to say I might not care if someone is fake. Many politicians are, on a variety of levels. But I'll decide that for myself. I see no need for someone's personal life, and the lives of their family, to be torn apart over this just so someone else can win an election.
To me, you can be a pot-smoking, hard drinking, jaywalker in your private life - I don't really care, so long as you do a good job and keep the promises made during your campaign. Equally, you can be gay behind closed doors so long as your campaign promises are met, even if those promises are not gay-friendly.