The Casey Lartigue Show!

A couple of days ago in a conversation about Eliot Spitzer and morality in politics, Rush Limbaugh said the following: Our last caller wanted to know -- he's a Republican, but he doesn't like this morality in politics, it's not in the Constitution. Actually, it is in the Federalist Papers in the section in which the criteria for the president was being written and debated about, the number one aspect in the Federalist Papers, I think it was John Adams in this case -- I think it was John Adams writing number-one, most important thing in the executive was character. Federalist #69, written by Alexander Hamilton, outlined the duties and responsibilities of the president. Limbaugh then had a change of heart about the author: It was James Madison. Actually, he wrote one-third of the Federalist Papers, the forerunner of the Constitution. He also was the principal author of the Constitution. It was James Madison in the Federalist Papers who laid out the requirements for the e...