...is anyone even discussing John McCain? He's in the final moments of his career, he will never be (and never should be) President. Why is a certain cross-dressing ex-mayor with absolutely no qualifications to be President suddenly a front-runner? How did Barak Obama become a national sensation and viable candidate for President by virtue of one high profile, vapid, self indulgant speech?

They're all media monsters. Out of all the people running for President in 08 (on both sides) I have heard NOTHING of substance. I have detected no inspired leadership qualities, no original concepts or solutions for the multitude of problems facing the nation. These clowns and characters are the ones we will HAVE to choose from to lead the country for one reason: they're colorful stories in one way or another. If there is anyone out there truly qualified to be President it would be imposible for them to to even reach the public. Its all showbuisness.

So here is yet another piece following the every move a half-senile old hasbeen who shouldn't even be running. And we wonder why the future looks as bleak as the present.

What I think will be really interesting to watch is the Republican candidate switching from primary election mode to general election mode when he will have to appeal to the vast majority of voters who want this war wrapped up. The Republican base is becoming increasingly marginalized. Their signature social issues just aren't resonating anymore (I think gay marriage has lost its edge for them, creationism makes them look rediculous, abortion has too much fundimantal support among the general public...). This war and a general war policy seems to be where they're hanging their hat.

The Republican presidential hopefulls are all forging enormous Jacob Marley chains for themselves with their support of the Bush/Cheney Iraq policy that will be impossible to drag into a general election win.

Of course he's not resigning, and he's going back to the Senate to continue his importnat work (notice how he conveniently excluded saving the sanctity of marriage from his to do list?). He'll resign when Lady Marmalade fingers him (figuratively) in New Orleans. So he denies patronizing prostitutes in the Big Easy? Well I say before summer is over we'll be hearing from some professional girls who say otherwise. Then he'll resign.

Mrs. Vitter is just another one of his whores. If she left him she wouldn't be a Senator's wife anymore with all the perks that go with it. If he eventually does resign...she'll be out of that marriage quicker than crap through a goose. Her "performance" in light of her smug, sanctamonious comments about Hillary Clinton was disgusting.

They're both hypoctites, and far too typical of what we see coming out of the "values" crowd.

I don't think the "sanctity of marriage" issue is quite the star attraction it used to be. I don't hear much railing against gay marriage and sreams for constitional ammendments these days. What it has turned into is a platform of hypocricy, so in the long run the issue really didn't serve the right wing all that well.

...get on with your life, and leave him alone. Besides, he's your stepSON. You have accepted parental responsibilities, and the thought of an adult sniffing after their teenager is repulsive.

I'm rather suprised by many of the responces that seem to think an older woman having sex with an underage boy is such an empowering and wonderful thing for everyone involved. Swich the genders and those same people would be screaming for the guy's balls on a silver platter.

Make no mistake. A 17 year old boy would rutt with anything he could fit his dick in. Don't flatter yourself. He'd tell his friends and you'd just be a pathetic old joke.

You were 17 once. You had your teenage years...leave him to his.

Please re-print that letter with the genders switched and see how it sounds then!

A 35, 45, 55 year old adult with a 25 year old partner is fine by me if that's cool for them. They're both adults. I think the older partner has issues with aging. A 35, 45, 55 year old with a teenager is wrong. I don't care what gender. A 35 year old with a teenager who is under their parental control is completely unacceptable.

An adult who obsessess on a teenager (and make no mistake, that's what this situation is) has serious self esteem issues and issues about growing older. Froast it anyway you want, but the cake is still rancid. We all get older, we all get old and we all had our shot at youth.

Older men sniffing after underaged girls is creepy anyway you look at it, and older woman sniffing after underaged boys is every bit as creepy.

Nasty couple. He hauls his bloated flabby ass off to a hooker because the harpy at home isn't putting out. Could that story be any clearer? I don't which one was more unpleasant.

I can't wait untill HBO does a special Vitter Up, Ho's Down special. Can't you just picture it? The blurry circle tastefully hiding his face, "Baby, you want me to put a diaper on that nasty fat ass of yours?! Its gonna cost alot more than $20 bucks..."

He's sorry he got caught, and she looked furious because her pampered little exsistence got fucked over. They can both take their "values" a go straight to hell.

They're hypocrites, that's bad enough, but the "values" policies they try to force on everyone actually harms people's lives. They do damage to families that don't fall under their exhaulted definition of what a family should be.

If al Qaida do find a safe haven in Iraq I hope they at the very least remember to acknowledge in some way their benefactors who made that haven possible. When they set up a new training camp in Iraq it would only be fitting to name it after their biggest patron.