Perhaps it’s not the affair, but how this whole thing has been handled. If all of this is true, he really should have manned-up.
If all of it is true, he should not have sought the presidency, if for no better reason than that he should have known that Republicans not only don't get press passes but that every fact is tortured, twisted and turned to make it seem more damning.
If it isn't true, he needed to do a better job of dealing with the false accusations. If his campaign is to survive, he must right now get started doing just that.
***
Perhaps he didn't “Man-up” and confess because it was not a love affair but something else that would be received as even less tolerable by a Christian nation. White said in the interview that during their thirteen years neither of them ever said they loved each other. So worse then an affair, just casual fleshly physical erotica - the kind of stuff that a good portion of men on freerepublic are all about, just flesh, devoid of any commitment of any kind. She said she knew this going in also and that it was also all she was interested in. .