The moment I saw this story elsewhere in the MSM, I knew it had to be about a Republican. Democrats are not judged on their personal moments of indiscretion. Instead we would be hearing lectures about how it is his own private life and none of our business and it didn’t affect the way he governed (blah, blah).
As Christians, we are all sinners and the ones trusted with power encounter additional temptations, it seems. This is not to exonerate this man but only to say that if we have one standard for Republican elected officials and another for Democrat elected officials, nobody is going to want to run as a Republican.
Congress is not church. I can pray for this man’s Christian walk and forgive him his lapse. But I don’t want to see otherwise good candidates tossed out over a moment of weakness because his likely replacement could easily be worse.
The problem was he was never a good candidate to begin with. He's allied with the thug mayor of Monroe, LA, and this was known before the election. He supported amnesty, and this also was known before the election.
But no, everyone was blinded by the glare of TV personalities endorsing the guy, and apparently too stupid to make rational judgements.
I'm sorry to have to infer that many FReepers - who allegedly are the most skeptical and informed conservatives in the world - got fooled, but those are the facts.