Lorena Bobbit

In 2000, Vitter was included in a Newhouse News Service story about the strain of congressional careers on families. His wife, Wendy, was asked by the Newhouse reporter: If her husband were as unfaithful as Livingston or former President Bill Clinton, would she be as forgiving as Hillary Rodham Clinton?

“I’m a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary,” Wendy Vitter told Newhouse News. “If he does something like that, I’m walking away with one thing, and it’s not alimony, trust me.”

All from a guy who has spent his political career trying to make an amendment that outlaws gay marriage. Classy and tasty. And even tastier and classier:

“Let’s give Vitter credit for having relations with people who aren’t minors and who are of the more respectable gender for such matters” – Dean Barnett on Hugh Hewitt’s blog