Whoremonger David Vitter Takes A Swing At George Voinovich

I doubt serial adulterer and whoremonger David Diapers Vitter personally fire-bombed the car of a Stormy Daniels campaign advisor-- although I hope the police ask where he was at the time of the incident. I know where he was yesterday afternoon-- slamming fellow Republican Senator George Voinovich (OH) and defending the honor of the Confederacy and it's racist, reactionary politics. (Recall that Voinovich had blamed the deterioration in the Republican Party on Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) and other southern radical right politicians who are out of touch with mainstream America.)

"I'm on the side of conservatives getting back to core conservative values," said Mr. Vitter, Louisiana Republican and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "There are a lot of us from the South who hold those values, which I think the party is supposed to be about. We strayed from them in the past few years, and that's why we performed so badly in the national elections."

...Mr. Vitter also criticized Mr. Voinovich for voting last week against a failed amendment sponsored by Mr. Vitter and Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican, to expand Americans' ability to carry concealed weapons.

"He's a moderate, really wishy-washy," Mr. Vitter said.

Yesterday Voinovich sided with Democrats on a number of votes that pitted die-hard right-wing obstructionists against a bipartisan majority trying to keep the government functioning in a productive way. For example, he voted against Coburn's gratuitous amendment to cut the funding for the Department of Energy, against Lamar Alexander's amendment to cut off TARP money to auto manufacturers, and against another gratuitous obstructionist amendment from Coburn, this one to harass energy and water development projects. Vitter, of course, voted for all 3 bills because Vitter wants President Obama to fail so badly that he doesn't care if the whole country falls apart. As expected, Vitter also announced, via Twitter, that he will vote against confirming Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

Louisiana has a reputation for tolerating misbehavior. Witness former Gov. Earl Long's cavorting with stripper Blaze Starr in the 1950s, former Gov. Edwin Edwards' frequent one-liners about his reputation as a womanizer and former Congressman William Jefferson's re-election to a ninth term after FBI agents said they found $90,000 in bribes he'd taken stashed in his freezer.

But if polls show the first-term Vitter struggling, Republicans could decide he is too weak to hold the seat, the analysts said. His biggest threat then could come from the right, possibly from Secretary of State Jay Dardenne, who already has statewide name recognition, or even Gov. Bobby Jindal, who so far has denied any interest in the race.

For now, that scenario appears unlikely, and with qualifying for the primaries less than a year away, time is growing short for potential opponents to start raising money for a credible campaign.

"Someone's going to have to announce soon," said Chervenak, who added that Vitter is likely hoping there is not another Republican scandal to remind voters of his own transgressions-- "another Mark Sanford or something like that."

UPDATE: Stormy Being Pressured To Get Out Of The Race Because Of A Domestic Violence Charge

Stormy Daniels-- a far more formidable opponent than conflicted and pathetic Louisiana Blue Dog Charlie Melancon, presumably the loser the Democrats plan to run against Vitter-- was arrested Saturday for punching out her husband. She faces jail. Vitter, who was been hiring prostitutes for his entire career-- and has been exposed and force to admit that he did as much-- has never been charged with a crime, even though hiring a prostitute is a criminal offense in Louisiana. Funny how the law works for lawmakers, huh? The guy admitted it... on TV! The spokesperson for the Louisiana Democratic Party, Kevin Franck remarked appropriately "Last time I checked, you don't find core Southern values in the places David Vitter has been found... If David Vitter can lead his party back to their conservative values, maybe Larry Craig can give them tips on bathroom etiquette and Mark Sanford can recommend a really good restaurant in Buenos Aires."