Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has admitted to a series of affairs and dumped his first wife after she was disfigured in a car accident.
Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-Florida) sent explicit messages soliciting sex from teenaged boys who had formerly served as congressional pages.
Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana), who acknowledged being involved with the so-called D.C. Madam and a hooker in New Orleans:
“Infidelity, divorce, and deadbeat dads contribute to the breakdown of traditional families.”
Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho), who was arrested for soliciting gay sex in an airport bathroom supported the Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, voted against a bill that would have banned job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and voted against expanding the definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich was married three times and left his first wife when she was in the hospital with cancer.
Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada), who admitted to having an affair with the wife of an employee, and a member of the Promise Keepers (“Men of Integrity”):
“Marriage is an extremely important institution in this country and protecting it is, in my mind, worth the extraordinary step of amending our constitution.”
Governor Mark Sanford (R-South Carolina), father of four, who neglected his duties to fly down to Argentina to meet his mistress on Father’s Day weekend and made his staff lie about his whereabouts:
“I think it would be much better for the country and for President Clinton to resign… I come from the business side; If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.”
