Dear idiots what the man did is NOT illegal in that state.
the age of consent is 16
Truthie,
All I see here is just another politician caught with his pants down. Now, I'm certain that you think it's perfectly OK for a 56 year-old man to have consensual sex with a sixteen year-old girl, too. I mean, after all the "age of consent" is 16 in that state, right? (I do wonder what you'd say if he were a republican)
Now, on the other hand, Vitter had sex with an adult prostitute, and you're outraged; we can't have that! Why it's, it's...gasp, Oh MY!...ILLEGAL! (i'm sure your outrage over this "horrible crime" would be the same if Vitter were a democrat)
Now, leaving political parties out of it, I am willing to bet, that neither you nor many other people here, would be aghast to learn that during my days in the army, I did my share of whoring; the fact is, that I patronized more than a few cathouses in Saigon, Bangkok and a few other places, and I admit it. Men are like that, and most women, if they do not exactly approve of the behavior, seem to understand. A feminist might accuse me of exploiting those women, but I doubt even you would consider the conduct a major crime. However, I am also willing to bet, that IF I were to disclose that I recently had consensual sex with a seventeen year-old girl (I would NEVER do any such thing, but let's pretend), in a state where the age of consent is 16, virtually everyone here would be calling me everything from a cradle-robbing, dirty old man, to a child molester, to God Only Knows what else, and you'd be in the forefront of the charge of those wanting me tarred and feathered, if not hung, for the offense! Never mind that no crime had been committed; legal or not, that sort of thing is ...IMMORAL...yeah, that's what it is!
The plain truth is that politicians are people too, which is why politicians and illicit sex go together like ham and eggs, and where politics is involved, there's always another sex scandal (real or imagined), hovering nearby. Hell, we already had a President getting hummers in the Oval Office and answering questions about semen stains on an intern's dress, and I seem to recall a drunken senator swimming with his "secretary" in the Tidal Basin at 3am, among other things.