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Sen. Vitter's Diaper Fetish and Another Republican Caught Solicting Sex...From a Man in a Toilet

Posted by Guest Blogger at 5:06 AM on July 12, 2007.


Howie Klein: The Vitter scandal has touched off new anxiety among Republicans over whether their party will pay the price for members who fail to live up to their moral principles.
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This post, written by Howie Klien, originally appeared on Down With Tyranny!

This Vitter thing just doesn't want to go away. One of the Madams he was working with to procure women for him says he should be prosecuted (it is true that what he was doing actually is a crime) while another Madam says he "wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary" with her girls over the years (except that he was into a diaper fetish, just like Holy Joe).

The whole thing is certainly an embarrassment for the Louisiana Family Values Republican Party. Mike Cromartie a far right wing former chairman of the Commission on International Religious Freedom isn't taking this as lightly as Vitter's political cronies-- who all say, basically, "Well, if God has forgiven him, who am I to hold a grudge?" Cromartie's comment today was more in touch with a less forgiving branch of religionists: "It's the hypocrisy that people can't stand. It's not the fact that people are frail and given to sinful behavior. It's when they try to pretend to be morally upright and end up being self-righteous because they preach one thing and live another."

Preacher and GOP presidential contender Governor Mike Huckabee doesn't seem too proud to have Vitter's hypocrisy making a statement about GOP phony-baloneys either. "Many of us became a part of the Republican Party so that we could find a home for traditional beliefs regarding marriage and family and the sanctity of human life. If those things really don't exist in the party, then we have to ask, 'Why are we here?'"

One guy who is really embarrassed is Vitter's political protégé, Bobby Jindal, who has Vitter's old congressional seat and is currently running for governor of Louisiana. Jindal is in the same awkward position of so many Louisiana Republicans-- Vitter included-- who have been clamoring for William Jefferson to step down. Will they hold Vitter to the same standards?

The local papers seem filled with despair about the cesspool-like politics of the Bayou State. In Alexandria Town Talk summed it all up: "We've got a Democratic congressman caught with $90,000 in cash in his freezer and facing federal bribery charges, and a Republican senator caught with his pants down and facing a wife who... compared herself to the knife-wielding, libido-snipping Lorena Bobbitt. Welcome to Louisiana."

Meanwhile, up the road apiece the Republicans are having another sex scandal. This time it's Florida State Rep. Robert Allen of Merritt Island. The 48 year old Republican Representative was arrested today on second degree misdemeanor charges for solicitation for prostitution. And the twist is that he's a married many and was asking an undercover cop in a men's room if he could pay him to give him a blowjob. It's so GOP!

Allen was out for a little afternoon delight and got nabbed at noon in Titusville, Florida. "Officers say they noticed Allen acting suspicious as he went in and out of the men's restroom 3 times. Minutes later, he solicited an undercover male officer inside the restroom, offering to perform oral sex for $20." He was first elected in 2000 and lists "water sports" as a hobby on his official state website. He also uses a 10 year old photo-- a sure sign he's gay. The picture above is what he looks like today. The Christian Coalition loves loved Rep. Allen. Like Vitter (and Foley) and the rest of the Republican hypocrites, he was strong on the family values bullshit. In the last session of the Florida legislature, the Christian Coalition commends him for supporting their (extremist, hateful) positions 92% of the time. The Rainbow Democratic club also rates all the elected officals in the area. Allen? "Wicked Witch: Worst of the Worst."

There is a difference between Allen and Vitter. Vitter likes women prostitutes and supports the cross-dressing candidate for president. Allen's into the male variety and supports the most senile of the GOP contenders.

UPDATE: LARRY FLYNT SAYS STAY TUNED

He claims there are 20 more elected officials who he's investigating.

"If someone's living a life contrary to the way they're advocating ... then they become fair game," Flynt told reporters. "I don't want a man like that legislating for me, especially in the area of morality."

...The Vitter scandal has touched off new anxiety among Republicans over whether their party will pay the price for members who fail to live up to their moral principles. Flynt, an unabashed Democrat, acknowledged that the GOP provides him with easier targets.

"Republicans are more fun because they get caught so easily," Flynt said. "They've been living a repressed life all their life. Democrats are liberal - they wear it on their sleeve. Their sex life is what it is. They don't spend their whole life trying to cover it up."

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Howie Klein was president of his freshman class, drove to Afghanistan and Nepal, became the president of Reprise Records and started a blog called Down With Tyranny!. He's always hated tyrants.


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Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Jul 12, 2007 5:57 AM   
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The picture of Lieberman said "click to enlarge." I clicked and it didn't enlarge. What's up with that?

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» Too early in the morning. Posted by: ABetterFuture
Amazing, but nothing new. Recall LBJ Aide Jenkin's "incident"?
Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Jul 12, 2007 6:19 AM   
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In October of 1964, when President Johnson was in the middle of his presidential campaign, his closest aide, Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins, was caught by the police in a YMCA basement in the bathroom with another man, and he was booked on disorderly conduct. LBJ simply called his press contacts (especially his 'friendliness' with Washington Post editor Graham.) What IS interesting is that this information was sent to the Republican National Committee who refused to exploit the information and kept it secret. This has often been used as an example of how, in the past, the Parties co-operated and 'were above' sexual ineudo and gotcha politics, BUT could it be because there were also all kinds of perverts in both Parties??

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Meh. Vitter's not a bad republican, as republicans go.
Posted by: ABetterFuture on Jul 12, 2007 7:01 AM   
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He reminds me a lot of lot of Clinton--sharp as a tack, Rhodes Scholar, knowledgeable on the issues facing the people he represents as well as national policy. (Well, aside from his infamous branding of the idiot marriage amendment as 'the most important issue', which is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard a smart person say, with the possible exception of another "southern gentleman" who was willing to take issue with what exactly "the meaning of the word 'is' is.") Vitter is certainly not as personable, nor as good of an orator as his fellow Oxfordite. One hopes he meant marriage in the general sense, and fumbled his words as public folks who speak and vote for a living commonly do.

Nevertheless, he's been a champion for coastal restoration, giving LA a fair share of the fruits of our mineral resources, connecting us with the a Northern corridor via I49, and lots of other issues.

It's quite silly of the author to compare Vitter's indiscretion with his naughty bits with our congressman-for-sale William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson, who was not only caught with $90,000 of the FBI's dirty bribery money, but also commandeered a military vehicle and a military escort to visit his home (and maybe destroy some evidence?) while his constituency was treading water (or drowning) during the aftermath Katrina.

I give Vitter the same benefit of the doubt as I gave Clinton: do your damn job, and if your personal life prohibits you from doing your job effectively, then it may be time for you to look for a new job.

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» Well, there's the rub. Posted by: ABetterFuture
Reasons for Becoming Republicans....
Posted by: CatDad on Jul 12, 2007 9:10 AM   
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Many of us became a part of the Republican Party so that we could find a home for traditional beliefs regarding marriage and family and the sanctity of human life.
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Funny how that "home," after the elections are over, turns about to be a place of trust funds, lower taxes on inheritance/dividends and championing the rights of big corporations over the individual.

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Hmm...
Posted by: adp3d on Jul 12, 2007 9:05 PM   
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Where are the Repub trolls that we normally see?

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