Louisiana Republican Senator - Rudy Giuliani’s southern regional chair! - fesses up to “very serious sin” involving D.C. Madam.

Do we even need to mention he was a big defender of the sanctity of marriage? Or does that, at this stage, go without saying?

Update: Glenn Greenwald notes that Vitter was in fact one of the chief sponsors of last year’s “proposed constitutional amendment to ‘protect the sanctity of traditional marriages’ by amending our Constitution to ban same-sex marriages.” And the Religious Freedom Coalition cherished him as a “true social conservative,” and James Dobson lauded him as a Christian conservative.

David Vitter stands aside other Towering Icons of the Great Social Conservative Movement, those moral stalwarts who are defending The Institution of Traditional Marriage in our country — he stands with Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Fred Thompson, and Vitter’s chosen presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, about whom Vitter assured his worried Values Voter constituency: “it’s very clear to me that he’s not running for president to advance any liberal social agenda.” From National Journal’s Hotline: “We asked Vitter what ‘a liberal social agenda’ was, and he said it included ’social issues.’”

Like, you know, hookers?

Update: Uh-oh, Vitter might want to hide the knives…

Asked by an interviewer in 2000 whether she could forgive her husband if she learned he’d had an extramarital affair, as Hillary Clinton and Bob Livingston’s wife had done, Wendy Vitter told the Times-Picayune: “I’m a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he does something like that, I’m walking away with one thing, and it’s not alimony, trust me.”