Fox News' own right-wing nutbag Sean Hannity said the following last night:
If you're going to be a family-values candidate and a family-values politician, and you don't live up to that, I think you should resign.
Of course, Hannity said this in response to Nevada's Republican Senator John Ensign cheating on his wife with a staffer's wife, not David Vitter cheating on his wife, kids, and constituents with prostitutes, but the message is quite clear. Even conservatives (heck, especially conservatives) should be put off by one of their own not living up to their own standards. Conservatives should not stand with Sinning Senators, as much (if not moreso) for the hypocrisy as the sin itself. We'll have to wait and see how principled "family values" conservatives are on this issue when it comes to David Vitter.
In last week's U.S. News and World Report, National Republican Senate Committee Chairman Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), promised a "bloodbath" here in Louisiana. Here's why:
Senator Landrieu has won two very, very close elections (1996 and 2002).
Republicans believe that the Democratic base in this state has shrunk considerably since Hurricane Katrina.
Ensign wants a bloodbath? Then let's give him one. Contribute to Mary by clicking on the link to the right, or by going to the little Louisiana Blue Krewe box on the left side of the blog.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign digs a deeper hole by trying to explain the difference in Republican reactions between David Vitter's scandal and Larry Craig's scandal:
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the Senate Republican campaign chairman, said Craig "admitted guilt. That is a big difference between being accused of something and actually admitting guilt."
"David Vitter never did that. Larry Craig did," continued Ensign on ABC's "This Week" program.
Whoa! Chairman Ensign is conceding that David Vitter has never admitted guilt for anything? Really? Either Ensign did not see David Vitter's press conference from almost two months ago, or Ensign will try to contend that Vitter never explicitly admitted to soliciting prostitutes, in which case every member of the media covering Washington DC and Louisiana politics should be on the horn to David Vitter's office to get a clarification.
Has David Vitter formally admitted (or will he now admit) that he solicited prostitutes?
