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A repentant sinner should receive forgiveness.
However, the big issue for me is he has forfeited his role as an important leader. If he were serious about “healing”
(as you put it) his family he would have laid aside his enormous ego and personal ambitions and made a fine life for the Vitter family right there at home.
By insisting on pursuing power ( the greatest aphrodisiac, they say) he has exposed his wife(her choice) and his innocent, vulnerable children to something he cannot control.
Just as when the creepy Jimmy Swaggart got caught, if he turns from his sin and asks forgiveness, it should be given.
However, there are consequences to this kind of sin and the first should be to put yourself second and not promote yourself as a leader.

You make good points. But I also believe he’s a talented leader. Should that be off limits? Maybe. I could see a case either way. The country is better off for his leadership and given what LA has been producing, so is his state. Is his posistion solely for his ego? Maybe. I don’t see a clear-cut answer to your questions, but I believe that they are the type of questions we as conservatives should be asking ourselves.