How is it an affair if he was separated from his wife?
Hope he enjoys the ride back down.
The egos of the powerful never fail to eventually hoist them in their own petard....
um... he was seperated from his wife at the time...
nothing to see here.
Funny how they make him sound like the victim.
I don’t care. He could never be as low and vile as Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid.
Democrats should be applauding him.
Better that than giving into blackmail. It's not as though he was cheating on his wife either as they were separated at the time.
I'm not going to care about what he did while separated.
He’s toast-—only dimocraps can do stuff like this.
Sometime later, a Nevada source said, Ensign met with the husband of the woman involved and had what this source described as a positive encounter. Sources said that the man subsequently asked Ensign for a substantial sum of money – at which point Ensign decided to make the affair public.
Seems Sen Ensign wasn't going for the blackmail attempt and now the guy's wife is thrust into the spotlight along with his blackmail attempt. I bet she just thinks the world of him now.
He should definitely lose any security clearance he has.
May be some idiots on our side should demand his resignation and give the left wing liberal even a bigger majority in the Senate.
This just doesnt strike me as scandalous. He and his wife were not together at the time.
How Hamiltonian...
LOL. There you go, the silver lining.
During a rough time in his personal life the man made a personal mistake. Now, it appears that he and his family have worked through a painful period and are trying to get on with their lives. The other woman was dismissed and given severance which is considerably more than she might have gotten had the Senator's wife decided she preferred revenge over being married to her husband. Unfortunately for the other woman, it looks like her husband was more interested in money than in his wife or her reputation. Now he will likely have lots of time in a very small place to contemplate the error of his felonious mistake.
I'll add this much, pretty much the same I said about Clinton and Lewinsky.
Because of the unequal power distribution between the Senator and the staffer, even consensual sex could still be considered sexual harrassment in the workplace, and at the least it creates a hostile work environment to the others who work there.
-PJ
Seems to me the woman’s husband should be charged with attempted extortion...
Before Conservatives get into the purge mode, perhaps consideration of whether or not there is a pattern of this type of behavior in his life would be worthwhile.
There is no question that he did wrong, but, the evidence that he also repented and did right should be taken into account, imo.
Is this his first affair or the first time that he’s been caught?
I always wondered why he didn’t run for President. He’s a staunch conservative with ‘supposedly’ Christian values and his stances on pretty much every issue agree with mine completely. I always thought he would make a rather Reagan-esque President.
Now I know ‘the why’. It makes perfect sense.
Crap.