Not news: Vitter is a weasel. News: This time it may bite him
As we've seen in recent years, pretty much any type of dishonesty, incompetence, corruption, crime, or treason is no reason for any elected Republican to feel any shame much less lose office.
Sex outside of marriage, however, is quite another matter.
That's one of the reasons why the Louisiana blogosphere is a-buzzin' with the the latest news about Senator David Vitter: Times-Picayune: Vitter's number on D.C. madam's list
The other reason is because Vitter has long positioned himself as Mr. Far Right Republican Morality Personified. Stalwart defender of traditional marriage. Promoter of government abstinence programs. Back in '98 he called for Clinton to resign for having had sex outside of marriage. In the years since, he's been steadfast in his convictions that butt-sex is a more urgent threat to Louisiana than coastal erosion, and after Katrina he wasted no time in moving to the top of his agenda a bill to make already illegal gay marriage even illegaler.
.... Now, David Vitter is not bad looking for a man of his age. With the pick up line "Hay Babee! I'm a SENATOR!!1!", one might think he'd be able to go out on the town and get laid without paying more than a bartab.
But that's not the way of the Republican Right. For them, sex is evil evil evil. Sinfull. Dirty and disgusting.
Therefore, when you're going to do it, you need to sin with a dirty filthy whore.
On the top of page A1 of today's Times-Picayune, Vitter is quoted as saying "I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife".
Um, you got God's forgiviness, David? Did he also forgive you for lying to voters when confronted about allegations of your whore addiction before the election in '04? ("I have made that clear that it is all completely untrue...And, it's obviously politically motivated.") Did you have any thoughts of admitting and asking forgiveness from the voters?
Gosh, I guess you're lucky you got forgiveness from your wife. Did she get anything from you in exchange? "Asked by an interviewer in 2000 whether she could forgive her husband if she learned he'd had an extramarital affair, as Hillary Clinton and Bob Livingston's wife had done, Wendy Vitter told the Times-Picayune: "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."" -- Salon article: There is a house in New Orleans
Right Hand Thief's Blog post has a good summary and links to the author's previous posts in his carefull attention to "Vitty-cent".
Sex outside of marriage, however, is quite another matter.
That's one of the reasons why the Louisiana blogosphere is a-buzzin' with the the latest news about Senator David Vitter: Times-Picayune: Vitter's number on D.C. madam's list
The other reason is because Vitter has long positioned himself as Mr. Far Right Republican Morality Personified. Stalwart defender of traditional marriage. Promoter of government abstinence programs. Back in '98 he called for Clinton to resign for having had sex outside of marriage. In the years since, he's been steadfast in his convictions that butt-sex is a more urgent threat to Louisiana than coastal erosion, and after Katrina he wasted no time in moving to the top of his agenda a bill to make already illegal gay marriage even illegaler.
.... Now, David Vitter is not bad looking for a man of his age. With the pick up line "Hay Babee! I'm a SENATOR!!1!", one might think he'd be able to go out on the town and get laid without paying more than a bartab.
But that's not the way of the Republican Right. For them, sex is evil evil evil. Sinfull. Dirty and disgusting.
Therefore, when you're going to do it, you need to sin with a dirty filthy whore.
On the top of page A1 of today's Times-Picayune, Vitter is quoted as saying "I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife".
Um, you got God's forgiviness, David? Did he also forgive you for lying to voters when confronted about allegations of your whore addiction before the election in '04? ("I have made that clear that it is all completely untrue...And, it's obviously politically motivated.") Did you have any thoughts of admitting and asking forgiveness from the voters?
Gosh, I guess you're lucky you got forgiveness from your wife. Did she get anything from you in exchange? "Asked by an interviewer in 2000 whether she could forgive her husband if she learned he'd had an extramarital affair, as Hillary Clinton and Bob Livingston's wife had done, Wendy Vitter told the Times-Picayune: "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."" -- Salon article: There is a house in New Orleans
Right Hand Thief's Blog post has a good summary and links to the author's previous posts in his carefull attention to "Vitty-cent".