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Different sort of integrity. Such as not being homophobic or racist, which isn't a minimum expectation of conduct for the Republican side.

Not buying it. By your own admission you gave Lotts fall from power as a reaction to vaguely racist commentary.

Were that the case, Harry "Obama is light skinned and doesn't speak with a Negro dialect" Reid, and Joe "Racist comments are legion" Biden would be political pariahs.