I understand how you feel bad about that, but unless Jesus Christ Himself runs for public office, we will never get a perfect candidate. We have to look at the big picture here. People like Vitter (and to a certain extent, all of us), have done stupid, regrettable things, that, if possible to go back in time and undo them, they would. He made a terrible mistake, and is doing his best to make amends with his family. We should pray that they can get through this.
Meanwhile, he is still a stellar conservative in the Senate. We cannot, and must not, lose people like him, or else, we lose big time.
No, we will never have a perfect candidate. However, I think we can do better Sure he is a great conservative. However, I don’t think we should lower our standards. It isn’t too much to ask to have a conservative candidate that hasn’t lied on the public record. Not asking for perfection, but there is a lot of room between Jesus and Vitter. I think we should find someone who falls somewhere in the middle.
Where do you draw the line for acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Is everything ok as long as our candidate has a solid conservative voting record? Like I said, if there wasn’t a better candidate, I wouldn’t hesitate to vote for him. Just hoping for better.