David Vitter <3 completely legal sexual fantasy services

This is going to be very fun
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It's neat how you can do whatever you want and then just ask God to forgive you.

 

It's great lipservice to his constituents. It's shorthand for his voters to forgive him. Quite a nice exploitation of Christian values, imo.

Anyways, he admitted to cheating and using escorts "in the past". I don't see what the big deal is.

 

what, no rehab???

also, laying it prety thick wd, ith the God stuff there. I'd give my left nut to hear a politician say "I f'd up big time. If ya'll want me to resign, I'll do it. But if you let me stay on, I'll try my best to be someone you can be proud of."

 

I hope they leave the guy alone.

 

Hey, stressful job, away from home for months at a time, and apparently the service might be legal. If his wife's a total shrew, than it's cool with me. At least he didn't pull the alcoholism or insomina card.

 

i agree. however how can one not chuckle at this:

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God gets horny too.

 

Ultra conservative repub morality police caught in another prostitution ring ~ what a shock.

 

My guess is the score will be pretty even. While the modern Republican party have taken political corruption to a whole new level, sexual infidelity is a universal failing.


Of course Republicans usually look worse when they're caught because of their bible thumping.

 

As God's most loyal servant Jerry Falwell once said: Forgive but not forget.

 

Stone him.

 

the concept of forgiveness/salvation is one of our worst inventions.

 

And of course it turns out Vitter is one of the loudest thumpers-


Sen. David Vitter, a leading Christian social conservative
(updated below)

Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was not merely a supporter of last year's proposed constitutional amendment to "protect the sanctity of traditional marriages" by amending our Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, but he was one of its chief sponsors (if you haven't heard today's news about Vitter, click the link on his name). And not only was Vitter one of its chief sponsors, he was also one of the nation's most extremist supporters of the amendment. This is what he said during last year's debate over that amendment:

"I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one."


To Vitter, there is not a single issue more important than amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriages. Not a single one. That is the most important issue there is in the United States. Whatever one's views are on same-sex marriages and the like, just imagine what has to happen in a person's life in order to make them think banning them is the Most Important Issue in the United States.

Same-sex marriages are, to Vitter, no different than natural disasters which destroy the lives of thousands of his constituents:

Louisiana Senator David Vitter, speaking at a Lafayette Parish Republican Executive Committee luncheon, referred to hurricanes Katrina and Rita coming through the same areas as a same-sex marriage.

In his statements at the luncheon, Vitter referred to the impact of both hurricanes on the Lafayette area. "Unfortunately, it's the crossroads where Katrina meets Rita," said Vitter. "I always knew I was against same-sex unions."

Vitter's moral center is not something he developed only recently. No. It is rock solid, something he "always knew." Once the amendment failed to pass, Vitter solemnly observed:

"Eventually, Congress is going to have to catch up to the wisdom of the American people or the American people will change Congress for the better."

Senator David Vitter, Fighter for the Moral Wisdom of the American People.

This is what the Religious Freedom Coalition said about Vitter in December 2003 when he announced he was running for the Senate:

A good friend of social conservatives, Republican Congressman David Vitter of Louisiana has announced he will run for the seat being vacated by Senator Breaux. Congressman Vitter is pro-life and a true social conservative.

Vitter's desire to use the law to impose his rock-solid traditional morality is not confined only to marriage. No, in general, he "[was] one of the most conservative Republicans in the House," as he also "loathes gambling and rarely votes against his party or the president" (although his deeply moral opposition to gambling may be as authentic as his commitment to Traditional Marriage, given that his anti-gambling crusades were fueled in part by some Jack Abramoff money designed to attack some gambling interests in order to help Abramoff's gambling clients).

When he was elected to the Senate, James Dobson's Focus on the Family celebrated his victory in its newsletter (.pdf) to its members, announcing:
"David Vitter, the Christian Conservative, became the first Republican to win a Louisiana Senate seat since Reconstruction." Vitter is not, of course, the first Fallen Christian Political Crusader from the Bayou State. This is how Vitter got his start in Washington politics: "Vitter won a special election in 1999 to succeed [Southern Republican] Congressman [and House Speaker] Bob Livingston, who resigned the House after an adultery scandal."


http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/10/vitter/index.html

 

"I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess," he [Vitter] said. [Atlanta Journal Constitution, 12/20/98]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/10/135511/180

 

The senator better start sleeping in another room, preferably one with a good lock on the door.

 

Funny that its things like this convinces me that there is a God.

 

thanks for pointing out why these are issues. it always amazes me when these guys like newt can get up and condemn someone publicly for the same vices they fall victim to. and then claim christianity. its utterly amazing.

 

If he didn't campaign on "morality" issues, then maybe we should leave him alone?

BTW David Vitter is a Catholic, not a Southern Baptist.

LOL ... Mrs. Vitter sounds like a helluva tough cookie.