Also, obligatory:

• Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is aconvicted child rapist in Florida.

• Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty tomolesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years inprison.

• Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

• Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guiltyto possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty toanybody who murders an abortion doctor.

• Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

• Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence infederal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

• Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced tothree years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

• Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator StromThurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

• Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commendedduring the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police afteradmitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

• Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to havingan inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

• Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sexparties at the White House during the 1980s.

• Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex partiesat the White House during the 1980s.

• Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty ofhaving sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

• Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty ofchild porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

• Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts ofsex crimes involving children.

• Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty toattempted sexual assault on a child.

• Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minorworking as a congressional page.

• Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader BeverlyRussell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

• Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex witha 16 year old girl when he was 28.

• Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman wascharged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

• Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested fordistributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

• Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"),was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawfulsexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering thedrug LSD.

• Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged withmolesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

• Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of havingsex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy afterthe allegations were reported in the media.

• Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return totraditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

• Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposinghis genitals to an 11 year old girl.

• Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling wassentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl afterhe attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

• Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six countsof raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

• Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced totwo years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-yearold girl.

• Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts offirst degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

• Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on sevenfelony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the ageof 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

• Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was chargedwith sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

• Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty tomolesting a male child.

• Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexualassault on a teenage girl.

• Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting histwo daughters.

• Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner wasconvicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

• Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleadedguilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

• Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded nocontest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

• Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possessionof child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 monthsin federal prison and fined $18,000.

• Republican parole board officer and former Colorado staterepresentative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornographywas found in his possession.

• Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate RobinVanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sexfrom boys and girls over the internet.

• Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a"good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedlyhaving sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

• Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy forMinnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming inthe nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

• Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six yearsin prison.

• Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, RichardA. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year oldgirl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and severalgrandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade hepaid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.