Discussion: 'Kissing Congressman' Might Not Leave Congress After All

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Ah yes, the Vitter strategy: stick around until even your colleagues give up trying to evict you.

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God ™ has forgiven me. It’s like a get out of sexual scandal free card that you can play as often as you wish. Just how fucked up must god be to not smite him dead where he stands. Oh…sorry, for an instant I forget the whole bronze age nomadic tribesmen inventing god(s) to explain the frightening world around them.

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“I figure everyone has moved on. I’m good.”

When someone does bring it up, it’ll be “Why are you dredging up this old crap? Everyone has moved on.”

It’s GOTPer scandal management 101.

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Of course he’s reconsidering, its either congressman or back to gator rasslin’

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Oh, I’m sure God accepts his apology.
I wouldn’t take his word on the spouse.
And the voters…well, boys will be boys and must have their fun, nevermind God or the spouse.

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What a silly PR ploy.

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It is pretty straightforward - he does not have much else to fall back on - (too stupid to be a strategic advisor & has no real “clout”) - and somebody must have said to him - hey - if people will give you money to run - do it - 'cause if you can somehow win after screwing up like that - you will be set for life - untouchable …

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This might actually work for McAllister. This kind of horseshit goes down as smooth as honey with the shitkickers in the South.

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I guess his God includes Duck Dynasty. McAllister’s hair is straight from hell.

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To paraphrase Ulysses Everett McGill, “He may be square with the Lord, but the good people of the State of Louisiana may be a little more hard-nosed.” But did McAllister ever get around to blaming his paramour? I’m virtually certain what ever has transpired is all her fault; as Mr. McGill also stated, “Never trust a female…Truth means nothing to a woman - the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.”

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Vance McAllister: “God has forgiven me…why can’t you?”
Idiot Louuuuzeeeanna Voter: “Makes sense, Luther…send him little Bobby Ray Sue Jimmy’s college fund!”

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Hypocritical, adulterous scumbag goes for a mulligan based on a chat with his imaginary pal.
And the tools who voted him in will probably accept that.

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In the United States more than anywhere else on earth, we revel in a culture of confession. In this regard, fundamentalist Christianity is really similar to 12-step programs (which are Christian though they don’t admit it). Failure is assumed and this system excuses the person doing the failing.

Want to diddle a teenage girl (or if you’re REALLY righteous, boy)? No problem. Smoke meth while stealing your congregation’s Social Security checks? Go for it. Bear false witness against a sitting U.S. President? Well, that’s best of all! Just as long as you cry and confess and grovel to Dead Jeezus, you’re “under grace” and you’re going to Free Market Heaven…

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‘After all, it worked for one of our Senators’

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Ah, Congressman McAllister, you haven’t yet apologized yet to the husband of the woman you were kissing, nor to her either. If I remember correctly, your fun put their marriage in serious jeopardy.

You are undoubtedly more familiar with the Bible than I am, so help me out here: Is it Jesus or Paul who says that if you have offended someone, go make it up with them first before approaching God?

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I dunno . . . I was smoking a fattie with God last night, and he told me that this boy’s just full of it.