I doubt that Hastert told anybody he buggered boys but I suspect that the GOP establishment is full of sleaze bags hiding their own slimy doings.
I do not know if he told anyone in the GOPe, but I think it will come to light that SOMEONE in the GOPe was suspicious SOMETHING was going on.
Between Gingrich, Livingstone, Foley, Duke Cunningham, the legal matters of Delay, Perry, and Walker, as well as the Christie investigation, I just don’t see Republicans geting any sort of ethical “advantage” over Hillary.
The American voters, for the longest time, have viewed the Republican party as a bunch of buffoons and hypocrites. The Hastert matter is just going to reinforce this image.