Weiner committed a virtual indiscretion. Vitter committed a crime (against law and decorum, I mean having multiple hookers dress you in diapers?) Why is Weiner resigning but Vitter is staying in office, especially when Vitter claims to be Mr. Family Values? If Vitter were really for family values he had have called on himself to resign. Of course, Vitter's constituents re-elected him by a wide margin, even after the hooker crime spree. Which just goes to show you the real morals of family values voters (not much). From NOLA:
"There are a lot of people that I think are committing outright hypocrisy and are forced to do so as long as he (Vitter) remains in office," said Joe Glover, the president of the Family Policy Network, based in Forest, Va. "I don't think the senator should put those folks in the untenable position of having to pragmatically defend his presence in the Senate."
Glover noted, for example, that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, had called on Weiner to resign, but had also contributed to Vitter's 2010 re-election campaign.
"I think their credibility is at stake," said Glover. "I know a lot of times in Washington, pragmatism reigns supreme, but there are some things that are more important than politics and integrity is one of those things."
