Alcoholism Crutch

Damocles said:
Works for me! Sickos. I could really care no less about them, even if it does give up control of the house...
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control of the house is secondary to me to getting the pervert hypocrites out of there. thsi guy was the co chair of a group overseeing child abuse and such....that is just amazing and sickening , especially if some others in congress knew of his mental illness.
 
I definitely think its a PR crutch. They tend to try to transfer blame to the substance and not take responsibility for their short comings and call it "an alcohol problem" instead.
 
Also if you do rehab, some people will belive you have been exersized from your demons!
 
exactly Alex. alcohol rehab is nothing more than a formulated PR move for a lot of these people in the limelight that get caught doing something amoral and/or illegal
 
that too, but is also a hiding place. I wonder if he thought about going there or was told by the republican leadership to go there.
 
I think he was told by his lawyer to go there in an attempt to mitigate the sentencing. Like a DUI Arrest, etc. Anticipate this requirement and do it beforehand.
 
Would have been strategic no matter who advised him. And what better place to hide from the press till after election day :)
 
Damocles said:
I think he was told by his lawyer to go there in an attempt to mitigate the sentencing. Like a DUI Arrest, etc. Anticipate this requirement and do it beforehand.
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We do that, not with DUI, because the sentencing is pretty standard unless you hurt someone or its like your 3rd or 4th...

But with other crimes, where you know you will eventually be pleaing guilty it is often a good idea to go into treatment, then go in front of the judge telling her/him your client is addressing the problem... is getting his/her life together and it would only make things worse to put him/her in jail.

Usually you can get "day for day" credit for time spent in a drug treatment facility.
 
Jarod said:
We do that, not with DUI, because the sentencing is pretty standard unless you hurt someone or its like your 3rd or 4th...

But with other crimes, where you know you will eventually be pleaing guilty it is often a good idea to go into treatment, then go in front of the judge telling her/him your client is addressing the problem... is getting his/her life together and it would only make things worse to put him/her in jail.

Usually you can get "day for day" credit for time spent in a drug treatment facility.
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That's my point. I think that is what is happening here...
 
LadyT said:
Is it just me or do public figures tend over-use alcholism as a crutch to patch up their PR images just to soften the fall from grace. I'm starting to not even believe they have alchohol problems; drug rehad and pedo rehab wouldn't sit well with the masses.
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Yeah, I know the feeling. When Maine posted all kinds of sick and twisted sexual fantasies about my daughter, he blamed it on the booze the next day. I didn't buy the "I was drunk" excuse either.
 
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