Sen. David Vitter's sins are yesterday's news
by James Gill - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

So far U.S. Sen. David Vitter's re-election campaign goes swimmingly. (T)he Democrats continue to bang on about Vitter's history of whoremongering, which long ago lost all shock value. The attacks are now merely tedious, and the longer Vitter's opponents wait to attack him on his performance in office, the better his chances of survival.

It is almost as though Vitter woke up one day and decided to trick the Democrats into flogging a dead horse. He is not by any means dumb and must have known that, when he up and called for a criminal investigation of ACORN, he was inviting his opponents to dredge up his sexual transgressions once again.

They fell for it so comprehensively that the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has gone after Vitter's Louisiana law license. But it would be a bit thick to discipline him for committing a crime when he has never even been charged with one. The Code of Professional Conduct does not say no sinners allowed.