Gary Hart: "All the rules have changed" in politics

[@Clintsessentials]

Gary Hart is absolutely right!!! What goes on behind closed doors, should remain private!!!

[@Justin.Martyr]

*THAT DePends, upon WUT went on behind CLosed Doors!!!!*

[@geico1975]

Exactly, but @Justin Martyr point is spot on too. Individually, personally, and morally "private" should indeed mean private, and that should be a highly regarded value among every person. However, reality can be a nuisance, and the fact of the matter is this. The majority of people care about a persons private matters, especially a person in the public's light.

[@RetiredVet2020]

Um no..

[@darrellkramer8097]

No. I disagree. Because he was most likely cheating on his wife; cheating is never good, but if his wife was bisexual and they had a mutual attraction to Donna Rice and they had a three-way relationship, that's another story. For some reason the American public would have more of a problem with that than if someone goes behind their spouse's back and cheats.

[@bigverybadtom]

What got him in trouble was not what happened behind closed doors but was out for all the world to see.

[@katdivine5429]

Great professional, non sensational interview by CBS and Rita Braver. Thanks

[@lynnturman8157]

I remember when this scandal happened in the 80s. It felt like a touchstone where the relationship between politics and media changed. For the worse. Instead of concerning ourselves with the issues and which politicians were the most qualified to lead, we became more interested in the salacious, the tabloid. One of the few, clear demarcations of when journalism became less of a public utility and instead adopted a for-profit, if it bleeds it leads ethos. At the expense of what was best for the country. That's my memory anyway.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

What I found very strange was the timing of this leak. Hart was the Democratic frontrunner and was favored to win the election in 1988 and then an anonymous informer provided the Miami Herald information about Hart's affair with Donna Rice (which IMO didn't really qualify as an affair since Hart and his wife were separated at this time). This was akin to Watergate. It's almost as if someone wanted to make sure that Hart didn't win those elections.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 "Favored to win" means very little in a primary. John Glenn was originally the big challenger to Walter Mondale in 1984, but he fell out of favor quickly. Even without a scandal, there was no real reason Hart was guaranteed to win in 1988.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

@@bigverybadtomYes you're right. In politics as in life, there is no such thing as a sure thing (and proof of that is now-infamous Chicago Tribune headline that read Dewey Defeats Truman in the 1948 elections). But the 1988 Democratic field was made up of virtual unknowns apart from Jesse Jackson which meant that Gary Hart had something those other candidates didn't have; name recognition. IMO, he certainly would have made a much better candidate than Mike Dukakis did. We'll never know now but I believe Hart would have gotten the Democratic nomination in 1988. We can debate whether he would have defeated Bush or not but at the very least, a Bush-Hart elections would have been much closer than the Bush-Dukakis race was.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 Gary Hart was the surprise runner up in 1984, which was his real claim to fame. As for Jesse Jackson, most people familiar with him are well aware his real claim to fame is that he has been a racial ambulance chaser, for whom the joke was "he never met a camera or microphone he didn't like". Even most blacks don't think much of him. What brought down Hart was not any extramarital affair so much as he happened to pose for a photograph with a woman not his wife on his lap on a ship called "Monkey Business". A bad, bad gaffe by any stretch of the imagination.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

@@bigverybadtom Jesse Jackson was never a serious candidate. Even many black voters, most of whom vote for Democrats, said that Jackson would not make a good president. But it's because Hart was the surprise runner-up in the 1984 Democratic primaries that he was the early frontrunner, especially when Mario Cuomo announced that he would not be running for president in 1988. As I said, considering who the other Democratic candidates were that year, I have no doubt Hart would have won and yes, he should have known better than to pose for a photo with another woman. He should have known that his opponents would have used that against him during the elections.

[@kirk9975]

Hart was accurate, "we will get the leaders we deserve"

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

That's always been the case.

[@themeaningoflife38]

I bet the movie wont include this: In September, 1975, a sub-committee made up of Hart and Richard Schweiker was asked to review the performance of the intelligence agencies in the original John F. Kennedy assassination investigation. Hart and Schweiker became very concerned about what they found. On 1st May, 1976, Hart said: "I don't think you can see the things I have seen and sit on it." When the Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations was published in 1976, Hart joined Walter Mondale and Philip Hart to publish an appendix to the report. The three men pointed out that "important portions of the Report had been excised or security grounds". However, they believed that the CIA had "used the classification stamp not for security, but to censor material that would be embarrassing, inconvenient, or likely to provoke an adverse public reaction to CIA activities." The appendix went on to say: "Some of the so-called security objections of the CIA were so outlandish they were dismissed out of hand. The CIA wanted to delete reference to the Bay of Pigs as a paramilitary operation, they wanted to eliminate any reference to CIA activities in Laos, and they wanted the Committee to excise testimony given in public before the television cameras. But on other more complex issues, the Committee's necessary and proper concern for caution enabled the CIA to use the clearance process to alter the Report to the point where some of its most important implications are either lost, or obscured in vague language." Hart called for a new Senate Committee to look into the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He said it was necessary to take a closer look at Lee Harvey Oswald and his relationship with the FBI and the CIA. In an interview he gave to the Denver Post Hart said the questions that needed answering included: "Who Oswald really was - who did he know? What affiliation did he have in the Cuban network? Was his public identification with the left-wing a cover for a connection with the anti-Castro right-wing?" In the interview Hart went on to state that he believed Oswald was probably operating as a double-agent. He thought this was one of the reasons why the FBI and CIA had made "a conscious decision to withhold evidence from the Warren Commission."

[@boywonder8241]

PrisonEarth i

[@greggmitchell4173]

Nothing about this in the movie.

[@andrewweinberger4430]

The movie takes place in May 1987. It has nothing to do with the rest of his career.

[@GodOfVictory501]

03:32 - 'Mondale to Hart: "Where's the Beef?"' I remember that being referenced in a joke in The Simpsons.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*& 38 years Later, I STILL DON'T GET it, wut that SiLLy ReMark, that Became sooo,* *WorLd Famous, even means!!!*

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Justin.Martyr It was a reference to the TV commercial for the Wendy's hamburger chain that they aired in that era.

[@michaelm4021]

Wow, I remember this story as though it were just yesterday! Sen. Hart was an excellent public servant... a very intelligent man who could have been an extraordinary president. Overall, it was a huge loss for the nation. It's interesting how he implicates Lee Atwater, as the evil Svengali behind the scandal. I ALWAYS thought that was the case, as the Bush people most feared Hart as their opponent in that election. Hearing Hart make that accusation during this interview sent a shiver down my spine. Also, the rules of politics have indeed changed, starting in earnest with Bill Clinton in '92. Clinton, with his wife by his side, was willing to stand, fight and push-back hard against stories about his marital infidelities. Prior to that, the mere whiff of scandal could dismantle a political career. All these years later, Donald Trump has perfected the art of fighting back, with Brett Kavanaugh's High Court confirmation hearing being the supreme example (for better, or for worse for our nation).

[@derekanderson7956]

I got bad news bro.

[@rodycaz8984]

@@derekanderson7956 What?

[@bigverybadtom]

Lee Atwater cannot be scapegoated for the fact that it was Harts own decision to be photographed with a woman not his wife on his lap, and then dropping out of the Presidential race and then changing his mind and rejoining it and losing badly. Not somebody I could call intelligent at all.

[@birhan2006]

Absolutely right, people will get the kind of leader they deserve

[@Justin.Martyr]

*USA DOES DESERVE TRUMP!!!*

[@Milton754]

@@Justin.Martyr No we don't. But, I understand that in your mind, heart, and every fiber of your soul.........Trump is deserved, but, then again......maybe so. I think so for a entirely different reason from you.

[@Justin.Martyr]

@@Milton754*So, wut EVER that MumbleLy Crock was!!!!* *I Speak in CLarity, MySeLf!!! 24-Months After that Comment,* *America DID Deserve Trump!!!!*

[@stoneyll]

When Hugh Jackman plays me in a movie... I know I have made it~!

[@russellmartinkenny5796]

Just like a Kennedy, if you can't be faithful and true to your wife and mother of your kids, how can you be faithful and true to your country, and the kids of that nation?

[@seanstransformationjourney2682]

bill burr plays a reporter 1:44. he said during this scene he got scared for a second like "holy sh*t, that's wolverine!"

[@iloveyoumadhuri]

Hart had an affair, but not denying nor confirming may have cost him more than adultery. He wasn’t wrong when he stated that private lives ought to be kept private. It took 20-30 years after his political career downfall for us to be numb to extramarital affairs in a politician’s life and that numbness is us admitting that the media and political opponents were wrong to do what they did.

[@Mdebacle]

Back a hundred years ago, a President could have a mistress but no divorce. Then circa 1960 a candidate could be divorced but no mistress. Now it's sort of a free-for-all. It depends on how the TV and newspapers can spin it. Whatever sells sells.

[@katherinewarren4828]

You don't know that. That's the whole point.

[@sarasmith5110]

@Vincent Cuttolo True. But Andrew Jackson married Rachel when she was not divorced from her first marriage. Huge scandal.

[@Mdebacle]

@Vincent Cuttolo Rockefeller's divorce and re-marriage hurt him in 1964, but it brought the issue to attention. Reagan was briefly a candidate in 1968 and the issue seemed passé.

[@iloveyoumadhuri]

@@katherinewarren4828 Not denying nor confirming is an admission of guilt. He's also had issues with his wife that make his guilt look more evident.

[@xznmusic]

The democrats problem is that they see two completely different sectors and call one of them “outdated”. Manufacturing is important, not outdated. Fix your vocabulary.

[@azmike3572]

Wondering--had he won the nomination, how would he have fared against Reagan? Personally I feel he would've won more states than Mondale, but still would've lost the election.

[@markdansack4350]

You're probably correct. He may have been able to win though based on his youth and vitality next to the befuddled old man Reagan.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@markdansack4350 Except the "befuddled old man" proved he was not so befuddled. He would have zinged Gary Hart the way he did Mondale, and he still would have won 49 states at least.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

I have never accepted the argument that a politician's private life is of public interest. The only caveat being if it is about hypocrisy - for example the politician criticises others for being unfaithful and promotes family whilst 'messing around' But the only people who genuinely have a right to be angry is the cheated-on spouse and family. The British tabloids are notorious for these sort of personal stories We British and Americans need to look to France where a politicians private life is private

[@bigverybadtom]

Come on, there is no private life when you are a politician.

[@schadlarry]

At least Hart didn't have to pay for his girlfriends.

[@flyingdutchman913]

Beeeautiful!

[@haroldlawson8771]

Trump girlfriends are now force to pay him

[@paulcolburn3855]

We don't know that he didn't pay her. She DID pose for Playboy. So... (shrugs)

[@teeniebeenie8774]

yay gary wish to god u were prez !!!! ur a good man sir!!!

[@BINSNEWS]

Great quote. Really good movie. The smartest politician I ever saw in my lifetime. He would have been a great President. Yes, we did get the leaders we deserved, & the country has fallen apart because of it.

[@bigverybadtom]

Then I hate to see who you call dumb ones. Hart should certainly have known better than to pose with a picture of a woman not his wife on a ship named "Monkey Business". And he certainly should have known better than to drop out of the Presidential race and then go back in.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

IMO, as dubious as Gary Hart's actions were at that time, what he is most guilty of is naivete. He did not believe that what he did would hurt his campaign and that the voters care more about the issues than his personal life. He should have realized that celebrities always live under scrutiny and whatever they do may hurt their careers. Hart had seen what happened to Ted Kennedy or Thomas Eagleton. Whether it's fair or not, Hart should have realized that the public will be holding him up to a higher moral standard and should not have opened himself up to such negative press.

[@bigverybadtom]

Um, he was in the US Senate for decades and he was so naive to not realize that? Am I glad he never became President!

[@davanmani556]

I liked Gary Hart so did Richard Nixon. Lee Atwater made him a sacrificial morality lamb. But I don’t he think he would have lasted very long if he was elected. It would eventually would have come out. He needed a woman like Donna Rice when he was on the road. It wasn’t the 50’s and 60’s anymore. But if a Gary Hart came today, nobody would care.

[@bigverybadtom]

Nah, nobody who was a stupid as Gary Hart was would get elected to anything.

[@spideraxis]

At the time in 1987 I saw him as an opportunist claiming to have "new ideas" and trying to capitalize on his resemblance to RFK. But five years later, when Bill Clinton was screwing around left and right, much of the media let it go. There is a double standard, particularly when one is on the far left. In that case, the media treats the candidate, celebrity or politician with kid gloves.

[@williamerazo3921]

Hart was Liberal Democrat

[@gfoot9916]

Ur obsessed with Hart. Why have you commented on every video under his name in the search bar?

[@spideraxis]

@@gfoot9916 I have no obsession. It was two years ago. Every video? No! It's my right and none of your damn business.

[@akorarichard4395]

A great man, to me

[@bigverybadtom]

Most Democrats in 1988 came to a different conclusion. Gary Hart was not even welcome at the 1988 Democratic national convention.

[@sciencehistoryandentertain734]

5:00 it an easy question to answer if you cheated on your wife...refusal to answer means yes almost always..."none of your business" means 99% yes

[@Ward413]

It’s the principle though. For anyone to pretend like they know what goes into a sixty year marriage. Who cares if he was unfaithful if he and his wife had worked it out and it had no affect on his ability to govern. That’s the point the movie was trying to make. The court of public opinion is never nuanced or thoughtful and it convicts a lot of innocent people. The irony is that a story of a politician possibly being unfaithful gets the media drooling but that very same politician could lie and fabricate evidence to get us into a 20 year war that costs us trillions of tax payer dollars and that same media won’t do even 10% of the investigative work they did reporting the potential adultery. It’s pathetic.

[@casperkittae2651]

No matter what he did with her, he had lousy judgment.

[@Milton754]

My thoughts exactly 💯. Even if it was innocent, his wife should have been present.

[@kerstindahlqvist9641]

In Sweden politicians personal life is left alone. But If you e g fly buisness class with taxpayers’ money that are more upsetting.

[@RobertDGordon]

I remember when the Hart photo came out. I thought it was BS then and 30 years later it’s downright laughable considering who’s now occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[@Keydet1992]

Yeah, not to mention Kennedy, LBJ, and Clinton...all of whom had affairs WHILE in office. At least the current guy has respected the office enough to thus far not follow in the footsteps of his democrat predecessors...just sayin

[@2legit2Kwit]

Yeah. Biden is a potato with handlers.

[@RobertDGordon]

@@2legit2Kwit Yes he is, and my criticism of his predecessor is in no way a show of support for him. I’ve totally disengaged from the divisive strongholds of politics, religion and race. They are specifically designed to keep society in a perpetual state of enmity and counter-productivity.

[@frankesposito2182]

You don't like Biden?

[@RobertDGordon]

@@frankesposito2182 What’s to like? He’s a career segregationist who has repeatedly shown his disdain for the Black community. The only reason he was elected was Trumps over the top apathy, mediocrity, dishonesty and inability to show any civility. Biden isn’t much of an upgrade in any of those areas. He simply displays it with less vitriol.

[@tomk3620]

WOW! She was beautiful!

[@Wowzersdude-k5c]

@Vincent Cuttolo The fact he couldn't admit the affair is preposterous. Anyone with two eyes knows he wasn't inviting Donna Rice over to discuss political strategy. To be fair to him, it was a different time back then - you couldn't admit to affairs in 1987 if you were a presidential candidate. Even though 90% of these power players in Washington had side pieces (and still do). This is why I despise when one side tries to out the other for sexual affairs -- they ALL are guilty of it. I agree with him, though. If it ain't illegal, it's nobody's business. This is why I am surprised when the left tries to bash Trump over his (many) extra-marital affairs. The Democrats are having affairs too.

[@Billionaireben]

When I saw Gary Hart as an older man, I thought it was Gerry Spence.

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

It all depends on the media. If they want to pull a politician down because of an extra marital affair they will. They can also help them cover it up as well. Bill Clinton had all kinds of affairs before he was elected president. It didn't and still doesn't effect his life at all.

[@HVACSoldier]

Larry Geary That’s how the media is with everything. The media knew about FDR’s Polio and JFK’s Addison Disease, but said nothing. The media also knew about Paul Tsongas’ cancer and brought it up. It all depends on who the media wants to be as the nominee. They push certain people.

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

@@HVACSoldierYep.😊 ...I agree with that 100%. The media seems to have never been thoroughly objective even as far back as the nation's founding. Moral of the story...Don't trust the media. There is always some hidden agenda to serve a political purpose.

[@lylecosmopolite]

Agreed. To get all censorious about Hart, while passing over in silence everything Clinton did except to Lewinsky, is indignation so highly selective as to be downright absurd.

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

@@lylecosmopolite...Yep.😊

[@Boodew-uw8hh]

Dave Davis ........ So you're saying Trump is correct,when he calls out the media as ........the enemy of the people?

[@MN-if9ko]

I believe that the American people have a right to know if a candidate is trustworthy. If a man will cheat on his wife, he will lie to anyone. Adultery still matters to most Americans. His refusal to be honest to this day says all there is to say.

[@Debunker246]

Because the girl seemed innocent, doesn't mean Lee Atwater(sp) didn't set him up.

[@bigverybadtom]

Atwater wasn't to blame for the fact that Hart dared the news media to follow him.

[@nkoeolingarichardjunior6233]

We seriously have to question this system that we have for electing our national leaders...

[@Clintsessentials]

Agree.

[@bigverybadtom]

Well, it worked. Gart Hart make a fool of himself and nobody wanted him.

[@pennyandwoody]

By rules changing do you mean taking pictures with a female on the monkey business .🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@houselemuellan8756]

Anyone else came here from For All Mankind? (Alternate history show where the space race never ends. he was president in the 80s and kept America from forever wars in the middle east) i wonder if he'd seen the show

[@alicealdous5066]

I remember that time. Hart challenged the media to find out the truth. Oversimplified coverage here.

[@leapinglaura7343]

Yep, a total puff piece.

[@johnmarstonlives]

Changed the course of history potentially

[@Justin.Martyr]

*Gary Hart was a COWARD to have QUIT the RACE!!!* *Don't NEED COWARDS in the White House!!!*

[@Milton754]

I would agree that your private life is nobody's business as long as you are not in politics telling or taking a stand for or against issues that is private and none of your business. Nor should one be asking questions of someone that is none of your business. Walking the gray line probably wouldn't be so easy.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*OBVIOUSLY Gary Hart had an Open Marriage!!!* *Gary was Coward for Dropping Out!!!*

[@WhitePage3]

"Anybody can be president."... I think that is sort of the point buddy. What a puff piece that was. haha.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

As puff a piece as it may have been, it identifies a major flaw of the United States Constitution: the fact that in order to run for President of the United States, all one has to do is be a native-born American citizen, a U.S. resident for a minimum of 14 years, and 35 years of age. THAT. IS. IT. One doesn’t need a college degree, any years of political experience or a knowledge base, or even a resume for crying out loud. Because of those minimalist requirements for taking on the biggest job in the entire world, America has had a ton of incompetent leaders of the free world while rejecting many candidates for office who had the goods but not the “personality”. I don’t know about you or any other American for that matter, but I would rather have somebody with intelligence and experience running my country, not some bozo who just looks good in front of a camera and who can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk.

[@cynsmi]

He was stupid, let’s face it.

[@IanP1963]

Good man !!!

[@Justin.Martyr]

*Gary Hart was a COWARD to have QUIT the Race!!!!* *Don't Need Cowards in the White House!!!*

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Justin.Martyr He quit because he knew nobody was going to vote for him. That's not cowardice, that's common sense.

[@bigverybadtom]

Gary Hart's crime was to tell the news media to follow him. They did, and then he showed the world what a Romeo he was. On top of that, he dropped out of the 1988 Presidential primary, then went back in, and he wound up a complete laughingstock. When he went to the Democratic convention, he was made to feel unwelcome.

[@dburch7894]

Can’t help but wonder, what if?

[@2legit2Kwit]

They snuffed him out early on. Sad. He seemed quality.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@2legit2Kwit So did Bill Cosby. I stopped trusting reputations now.

[@jojopuppyfish]

Reading the book it was based on. Seems like the guy wasn't much of a fighter.

[@breezycovergirl]

Donna looks similar to Amber Heard

[@linseydickson7782]

So sad he had to withdraw! H

[@c.l.1820]

No one made him.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@c.l.1820 Why bother running in a race you have no hope of winning?

[@on2wheels378]

The rules may have 'so called' changed but he didn't follow any himself...

[@indiejams9887]

The reality is it wouldn't have made a bit of difference if Hart had been elected. His "vision" was exactly what we ended up getting: free trade, globalization, offshoring manufacturing jobs, etc. His whole "new ideas" premise mostly consisted of strategically framing his policies within Reagan-lite terms like "investment and entrepreneurship." Clinton ended up being more effective at co-opting traditional republican economic policies and lingo ("end welfare as we know it..").

[@bigverybadtom]

It helped that the Republicans won Congress back in 1994 after many decades of the Democrats running it.

[@punchline43]

I think the woman reading the story at 2:04 has some trouble with her Vs and Bs, hmm.

[@danieltadros3262]

I just saw the movie. It is one of the few movies I have seen where the real life characters were better looking than the actors who betrayed them. The movie was boring.

[@dr.roberts4508]

HBO movie ?

[@danieltadros3262]

@@dr.roberts4508 I am talking about the movie the Frontrunner. A huge bore.

[@dr.roberts4508]

@@danieltadros3262 my question is was the movie showen on HBO.

[@dr.roberts4508]

I bet it is a boring movie. All you have is the question then that's it.

[@danieltadros3262]

@@dr.roberts4508 It is in the movie theaters now. I don't know about HBO.

[@JoniAntonio]

It didnt cost him 130k though...

[@2legit2Kwit]

They were playing so dirty back then. Set up.

[@kingbillybob]

Those Stormy D's.

[@k_1989_]

pov: ur watching this for civics

[@terrymeadows1827]

Total BS. Typical self-righteous, the-rules-do-not-apply-to-me Democrat. You got caught, Hart, and the nation is better for it. Go fish.

[@MariTeabag-lf1ly]

He looks at it in from totally male point of view. He seems to refer back 200 years when papers were male dominated & Kennedy was forgiven his affairs, why I don't know. Women will see things differently. He talks about the film being about 'the worst week of his life', well obviously he was being unfaithful for a lot longer that a week! His wife seems to have overlooked other liaisons & I don't understand why she stayed with him. His attitude is repulsive. Women have more self respect & stand up for themselves now. Yes, being unfaithful is wrong, deceitful, hurts others and IS a big deal. It just shows he's untrustworthy. To women, it matters.

[@darrellkramer8097]

What if he and his wife were involved in a three-way relationship with Donna Rice? Too creepy? Or is it better to do something behind your spouses back?

[@mjphoto45]

Donna Rice.....politicians. lol

[@loreleimorgan6545]

He's a nice guy. When you're a 19 year old girl, you end up in interesting places...but nice guy.

[@terryfriend16]

He has aged looking like Kirk Douglas. Anyway. .. why bring up the old dog, let him sleep. This is an old story: men always go down by women, some just cover it up better.

[@MultiCardsfan1]

Why doesn’t he just admit it now? We all know he did it.

[@birdmantd]

Defeats the whole purpose of what he's trying to say if he does which is that we all have skeletons in our closet. The question isn't whether he did it, it's why should we care? People's love lives have no impact on whether they're a good politician or not.

[@Bodhi1satva]

I don’t know why they didn’t include the Lee Atwater’s death bed confession to setting up the photo with Rice to create or support the allegations of impropriety but it’s been reported widely. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/was-gary-hart-set-up/570802/ www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gary-hart-on-the-front-runner-politics-today-and-how-all-the-rules-have-changed/

[@johnfarr2738]

I agree that by him admitting it or denying it that it defeats his whole POV in this interview.

[@Bodhi1satva]

My generation and those before me believed that privacy was highly valuable. Far more so than this generation of twitting, facebook and selfies. Many of our protections in the law are based on an “expectation of privacy”. That expectation will someday soon be challenged in the courts and may well overturn current legal standards like requirements for search warrants etc. Making it easier for the gov’t to enter your home or your vehicle without a warrant at all if you’ve freely given up your expectation to privacy. Men like Gary Hart remember the value of privacy and stand on principle to continue protecting themselves from unlawful intrusions into their privacy. Not to mention self respect. Some people don’t remember or even consider that older generations, raised under very different circumstances don’t always share the same frame of mind as the younger ones. Many here are jumping to conclusions based on their own frame of mind and what they would do today, not what others from a different frame of reference might do. Insight comes from empathy and experience. Look it up.

[@Bodhi1satva]

Vincent Cuttolo Good try! More baseless arguments. You’ve obviously joined the fan base in this country for tabloid journalism. Good luck with your mob rule. You don’t have to believe anything, but if you think you can’t ever lose your rights, then you don’t pay attention to even recent history. Remember the patriot act! You Don’t have to look far to find abuses by this gov’t, especially here in the USA. Ever heard of confirmation bias? Try thinking outside your comfort zone.

[@vicaravitakka8332]

Even then, the Republicans were muck-raking.

[@ruthdepew7212]

The Republicans have been raking muck since at least Joe McCarthy.

[@sarasmith5110]

Are you kidding? Look at the Mueller Investigation. that is pure muckraking. There is no proof that Trump colluded with the Russians. there is proof that Hillary Clinton did. Look at the Kavanaugh hearings. No proof there either. That was the worst muck raking, there was no muck to rake yet you democrats managed.

[@StopListenThink]

Mock ranking... by saying 30 to 40% now if President Trump had 30 to 40% he wouldn't be President Trump now would he

[@garrysnett9986]

Vicara Vitakka grace.in.old.age,its.good.

[@brianforbes8325]

Kendall Miller, what planet do you live on? You think Trump colluded with Russia because you want to believe it. There is NO evidence of that! You're the one making a FOOL of yourself here! Just shut up!

[@professorjams]

He should have kept his pants on, and played with family ,only.

[@leapinglaura7343]

What a liar. The way he went after our free press, trying to make THEM the bad guy, was lucidrous, childish, and manipulative. (Also btw rarely seen a politician more profoundly wrong about the soviet union.)

[@haroldlawson8771]

He would have been a weak president

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Gary always had good looking women around.

[@iVenge]

The interviewer has a speech impediment. Very unprofessional. A T is not a D.

[@classic-kool]

Hart looks like Keith Richards twin brother ..

[@spacepatrolman]

No William Proxmire jogging to work any more no Senator Sam back then a man was a man and a woman was a woman no RINO DINO

[@RADIUMGLASS]

S***, Gary should have ran in 2020!

[@judithgrace9850]

Greed is worldwide God is on charge. Karma never loses an address We reap what we sow

[@glenm5034]

Biden calls Trump a liar, LOL

[@scdevon]

"All of the rules have changed". (And the left changed them)

[@DeesBees85]

scdevon right. So the party of “family values” doesn’t care about marital affairs? Who do you think you’re kidding?

[@SgtHulkasToe]

Gary Hartpence on a CBS Sunday morning show defines boring, irrelevant and clueless to a degree not thought possible.

[@StopListenThink]

30%...? Really lol gotta love it.

[@stelaqendrimgashi9251]

Now days he is not democrat because he is old school.

[@shrihithtalapaneni9227]

A reminder that he predicted 9/11

[@RemoteViewr1]

Character. Yes. Not perfect, all too human. Good enough.

[@jessemkok3274]

nobody is perfect

[@JerryDLTN]

So Trump's previous marriages should have not been mentioned by the Press?

[@MeMeDaVinci]

He was a socialite for his first two marriages, attending Hollywood parties looking for women to bed. He was a member of the Democratic Party (but no one remembers that).

[@bigverybadtom]

They were long before he ever ran for office.

[@Hendo614]

Many brilliant leaders brought down by personal issues. So unimportant and so often inflated and distorted. Sad loss.

[@timothyzenner7788]

The Atlantic is about as reputable as info wars

[@nalejbank]

CBS can be counted on to soft market the "story" of a collectivist big government liberal. Required viewing by all Democrats? The couple of personality over principle.

[@garymarchelletta7066]

You don’t like collectivism, fine, don’t drive on OUR roads on your way to work.

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

geezers love their flip phones

[@ericmarin6454]

Monkey business, huh 😏🤔🤣

[@notta3d]

You put any man, and I mean any man in the right position and they will be tempted. If you say otherwise you're lying to yourself. Men generally don't cheat because they don't put themselves in that position. Damn shame what happened to him.

[@Gr8Layks]

Reporting and journalism used to be a noble profession. Reporters and journalists ruined that perception.

[@brianmcnally1578]

My gramps really liked you. 😎

[@jshepard152]

CBS can't get over a Republican election victory. In 1988. lol

[@flyingdutchman913]

What an ignorant, stupid comment. Always one line. You idiot. They REPORTED WHAT HAPPENDED. SUCK ON YOUR LOL you psychotic GOP Cult follower.

[@dr.roberts4508]

Hart took the brunt. Bad timing

[@brainflash1]

Even if they weren't having an affair, you shouldn't be sneaking around with women who aren't your wife!

[@TheRickluna]

Tell that to Trump.

[@AR-xi9ji]

@@TheRickluna Tell it to most men.

[@joe6096]

It happens. If that’s too much for you to handle you should be a monk. I vote for politicians who are honest with their indiscretions. Trump was, Clinton wasn’t. Hart certainly wasn’t. Just be honest and it defuses the whole thing.

[@kendalltube9633]

Sometimes wives completely lose interest in any sex at all while husbands still have an interest in sex. The affair saves the marriage because it takes the tension away.

[@nathanjamesbaker]

"I vote for politicians who are honest with their indiscretions. Trump was" Huh? Trump lied about his affairs, and about his sexual assaults. At one point he even lied about that being his voice on the Access Hollywood tape, where he brags about assaulting women.

[@ernestoybarra7333]

Gary Hart sucks then and sucks now

[@mandosandradios]

Gosh, He looks bad.

[@Nedsdag]

He's in his eighties. What did you expect?

[@bigverybadtom]

@@fml5910 He looks like a member of the Rolling Stones.

[@terri4340]

SORRY SIR! IT MATTERS A GREAT DEAL WHO YOU ARE IN PRIVATE ..............AND.............PUBLIC. WHO WANTS A PRESIDENT MARRIED 7 TIMES?? OR A FEMALE PRESIDENT WHO HAS HAD MULTIPLE ABORTIONS AND ISN'T REMORSEFUL ABOUT IT???? SERIOUSLY PEOPLE? WE HAVE TRUMP BECAUSE WE DESERVE TRUMP

[@suzanneschulz8479]

Then why is Trump in the white house?

[@kyleebrock]

@@suzanneschulz8479 Mistakes happen all the time. From birth to president for some.

[@Tomy-9878]

“What’s a president marred 7 times??” Trump married 3, had children with a three, and many affairs in between.

[@azmike3572]

"...because we deserve Trump." Can't tell if this is a positive or negative statement.

[@terri4340]

@@azmike3572 it's meant to be truthful. if you only have someone like him or killary that says ALOT about how far this country has fallen.... that's what i meant..