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Speaks to character, if you run as a "family values" candidate while cheating on your spouse. It's not inherently disqualifying, especially compared to self identifying as a Nazi, but it's not something that the press or the people should ignore.
"What people do in the sheets" rhetoric is for stuff like kinky sex or being gay...nobody should care if he likes getting pegged. Nobody should care if he has an open relationship. Nobody should care that he likes trans porn, which he said he does. The problem with cheating is the character concern of caring about your wants no matter who it hurts. That is a bad characteristic for a political leader.
And yet here we are. I understand the stigma with Ashley Madison. If it were tinder, Grindr, or any other hookup site that is not a "cheating" site would that be ok?
The sticky part is that the key difference between cheating and an open relationship is consent, so the app/site itself doesn't change anything, his partner's knowledge and acceptance of his use of the app/site does.
I don't think people would care about any of this nearly as much if he didn't represent a party that claims all of these things are 'ungodly', and the same party that negatively attributes this kind of behavior to the LGBTQ community, while actively trying to erase their existence. I think it's important that people call out the hypocrisy.
I don't think the app that he used really matters as far as the criticism goes, though if it was Grindr it would've been even more hurtful to his career, as most of the people who were going to vote for him would be extremely bigoted against that.