‘This can be a very lonely and isolating place…’

July 13, 2007

Not surprisingly, nearly the entire Republican establishment has been silent on Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) sex scandal. Not that I blame them; what are people going to say? Rudy Giuliani was pushed for a response, considering that Vitter has been a key part of his presidential campaign, but even his response was a passive reference to some kind of “disappointment.”

But as reader D.K. noted, some Vitter allies are starting to speak up.

“We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening,” [Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)] said, “but the fact is this can be a very lonely and isolating place to be away from your family. So I’m certainly not going to judge him because I don’t want that kind of pressure on me.”

Is that a confession?

Well, no, probably not, but it was a strikingly odd thing to say. Here we have another very conservative senator from a very conservative state, who touts conservative “family values.” He doesn’t want to condemn Vitter’s personal failings? Fine, no problem. He’s deciding to steer clear of the scandal because he thinks he might be “vulnerable to something like that happening” to him? Hmm.

I’d imagine a well-educated, liberal city like DC is a *very* lonely place for conservative morons like DeMint and Vitter.

  • “…this can be a very lonely and isolating place to be away from your family”

    i thought that’s what congressional pages were for!

  • “We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening,”

    Yep, it just ain’t like the good ol’ days when you could keep your hypocrisy on the D/L. What a bad joke.

  • “…but the fact is this [DC] can be a very lonely and isolating place…”-DeMint

    Get the hell out then, you hypocrite scumbag. Lonely Republicans in DC? I suggest they go fuck themselves.

    I don’t recall you lying war-mongering pervert cowards extending this kind of compassion for President Clinton.

    There is so much Republican blood in the political water. It’s time to kill.

  • [DeMint, off mike]: “Now, if Vitter turned out to be one of those closet liberals I’d run his godless ass up the flag pole. Or vice versa.”

  • but the fact is this can be a very lonely and isolating place to be away from your family

    Sounds more like he was a sex fanatic. Maybe it was very lonely and isolating because there wasn’t a discreet porn-shop around.

  • Note to politicians: always keep the name and number of the first call girl you ever use, so that if years later you get caught you can refer the press to her and claim that it all ended years ago.

  • This is what I mean (from the earlier post):

    Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) sex scandal has grown increasingly lurid in the days since he admitted using the services of the DC Madam. It wasn’t a one-time mistake for Vitter, he took Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s calls during roll-call votes in Congress, and he apparently paid for sex quite a bit back in Louisiana. All the while, he was a moral crusader for “traditional” family values, condemning those whose morality failed to meet his high standards. The state GOP is already considering plans to replace him.

  • Oh, come on…give us a break already. No one forced these people to run for office, and given the total absence of compassion that many Republicans have exhibited for the poor, the uninsured, the sick, the troops, rape victims, the elderly, etc., I am hard-pressed to work up a tear for people whose lives are, by all measures, extremely comfortable, but who can only cope with the hardship of being away from their spouse for a couple days a week by paying hookers for sex.

  • “We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening,”

    Yes, we all think that paying a prostitute for sex over the course of several months is something that can’t happen to us, but sometimes, you know, it’s just unavoidable.

    Clue for DeMint: Your party trumpets personal responsibility–some things just don’t happen to people.

  • “We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening,”

    DeMint is tell us we are all sinners.

  • but the fact is this can be a very lonely and isolating place to be away from your family

    Er, the prostitute I saw interviewed was back in Vitters home town. I guess when you’re in lonely old DC you get nostalgic for the whores back home.

    I think it’s a prostitute’s right to sell her favors if she wants. The real whore is Vitters.

  • Larry Flynt does claim to have a list of something like 20 people like Vitter. I wouldn’t be suprised if DeMint was on the list too.

  • I nearly threw a brick at the TV when good ol’ CNN presented an interview with some psychotic twerp from that state. In self righteous indignation, he said that Vitter should quit the Repugs and join the Democratic party ’cause they accept that sort of behavior. There we have it. There’s nothing wrong with their way of doing things. The answer to all the right-wing failures is straightforward. No matter what the politician’s posturing, no matter what the sonorous statements may say—they’re all stealth sabotuers from the Democratic party!

  • “We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening,” [Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)] said,

    Translation: I didn’t realise the damned whore kept a log of the calls and that she’d make it public, pox on the bitch. The amount of money I paid her, too; you’d have thought it was enough to keep her trap shut. No honor at all. Now I live in dread that it’ll be lonely, without my family, even when I get back home. And no more money for company to relieve the tedium, either, by the time I’ve paid the alimony…

  • Think he could be shamed into resigning?

    It would almost be worth paying some out-of-work actor to shadow him for a few months, while wearing a diaper.

  • It’s kinda funny that the NO pimp-lady said STTET Vitter was one of the most honorable men she had ever met, and the other NO whore said the same.

    Nobody else has anything good to say about him right now.

    I would be feeling just a little sorry for him, if he weren’t such a Tartuffe.

  • “……..So I’m certainly not going to judge him because I don’t want that kind of pressure on me.”

    Yet somehow it’s alright for douchebags like Vitter and DeMint to attack and criticize Democrats, non-Christians, and assorted anti-Bush cabal partisans for our values.

    There is no intellectually dishonest, hypocritical, supercillious turd quite like a conservative Republican.

    Can anyone say “pogrom”?

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