Oops, that's my number (Senator Vitter)[MULTI-MERGED]

mg450 said
Go back and read the rest of that pst and respond instead of being conveniently dismissive.

Sorry, but I'm not going to engage someone who can't do anything better than try to paint me with meaningless statements like "card-carrying member" and "drinking the Kool-aid." I read your entire post. Since you seem to know whether or not I'm upset at Vitter's actions, you tell everyone.

RJ in Lafayette said
I don't want to defend Vitter and his conduct. Certainly not on a personal level. Put I think it has to be put in some perspective. Again, he obviously has some significant failings and his demons. And it seems to safe to conclude that his marriage was some time was troubled.

But--on a personal level--I don't like sticking my nose in the marriages of other people. And I draw a distinction between personal morality and public morality, as do others, though in different ways. [...]

If you find his conduct unacceptable, vote him out in 2010. ... But yes, I am bothered by our using evidence of personal failings to politically destroy political opponents and am bothered by our modern culture so quickly highlighting the personal failings of the well-known.

:plus-un2:

If David Vitter committed a crime, then charge him, arrest him, convict him and send him to jail. As for his personal life, either give him the same pass that you gave him to Clinton, or treat every other politician who commits private discretions the same way you are treating him.