By The Editor | July 11th, 2007 | 31 comments

Courtesy of Not Very Bright, we found this interesting quote from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in today’s Washington Post regarding Sen. David Vitter’s implication in the DC Madam scandal:

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), approached by a group of reporters outside the lunch, offered an unexpected defense. “All of us have to look at it and say that we could be next,” he said in answer to a Vitter question. “We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening, but the fact is this can be a very lonely and isolating place.”

Yikes. Might other senators be on the Madam’s list? [DANA MILBANK - Washington Post]

Come again?


31 Responses to “Does DeMint have a little secret?”

  1. 1.
    Posted by Gary on 07/11/07 at 2:12 pm

    Per TPM, David Corn has discovered at least one Senate phone number (pre-Vitter days) in the list.

  2. 2.
    Posted by Occulize on 07/11/07 at 2:15 pm

    You’re only vulnerable to something like that if YOU USE PROSTITUTES!!!!!!!! Always remember, the reason that Republicans hate sex so much is that they have to pay for it.

  3. 3.
    Posted by pseudonymous in nc on 07/11/07 at 2:36 pm

    Well, DeMint only became a Senator in 2004, so he’s not behind Corn’s mystery Senate number. He was in the House before that. Not the brightest bulb, that one.

  4. 4.
    Posted by FIC on 07/11/07 at 2:37 pm

    Yikes. Might other senators be on the Madam’s list?

    Well, isn’t that your job to find out, Dana? It would have been in the early seventies
    at the WoPo. Also, we can be sure, in the mid-nineties.

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  6. 6.
    Posted by john dozier on 07/11/07 at 2:52 pm

    I have proof that there are 1000 card carrying madams and pimps in D.C.

  7. 7.
    Posted by Joe Felice on 07/11/07 at 2:55 pm

    Yikes! In fairness I think he chose his words poorly, and probably was referring to using prostitutes itself when he said we’re all vulnerable to something like that. Not referring to the act of being uncovered. Funny though, and promising.

  8. 8.
    Posted by Tom3 on 07/11/07 at 3:01 pm

    There are 1000 card carrying whores in DC. They’re called the Republican party.

  9. 9.
    Posted by serge on 07/11/07 at 3:03 pm

    Well…I won’t comment beyond the assertion that this senator is, as we say in Charleston, “dumb as dogshit.”

  10. 10.
    Posted by anon on 07/11/07 at 3:04 pm

    I think that’s just basic “christian” forgiveness/mercy type talk these southern boys keep in reserve, exclusively for when one of their own “honorable man” club goes down.

  11. 11.

    ahh, the “lonely” defense… well, I’m convinced there’s no hypocrisy here!

  12. 12.
    Posted by fedup on 07/11/07 at 3:17 pm

    Ever heard of self-incrimination? LOL! I guess we know where to look next…

  13. 13.
    Posted by Don on 07/11/07 at 3:21 pm

    I never thought that Clinton’s escapade was anyone’s business but his and his family. I feel the same way about the use of prostitutes, if the law don’t catch you the hell with it. The whole country is coming apart and we are worried or fixated on a few prostitutes and clients. Come on.

  14. 14.
    Posted by Mark on 07/11/07 at 3:22 pm

    I am so pleased to find out that the Senatie includes among its members lunatics from other states, and not just the lunatics from Texas. The same sort of of feeling I get when a toronado victim is being interviewed on television and my prayer that he not be from Texas gets answered in a line akin to, “That damn thang came blowin in soundin xactly like the 11:02 from over to Jonesboro.”

  15. 15.
    Posted by Prodigal Son on 07/11/07 at 3:22 pm

    This is the same idiot who said democrats were to blame for soldiers’ deaths in Iraq a month ago.

    Will the State paper print his boolsheet? Greenville Republican News won’t.

  16. 16.
    Posted by Jeff on 07/11/07 at 3:36 pm

    Please Lord, let it be from Lieberman’s office……

  17. 17.
    Posted by Salmo on 07/11/07 at 4:25 pm

    It’s not the sex, it’s the fact that the prostitutes were paid by a third party – in Viter’s case it seems to have been Abromhof.

  18. 18.
    Posted by steve on 07/11/07 at 4:40 pm

    Sounds like Demint would be a good fit in Rudy’s campaign. If we are so intent on electing the biggest moron we can find to any public office in this state, can’t we at least make them shut up?

  19. 19.

    quote of the day…

    from the comments to Does DeMint have a little secret? » The Palmetto Scoop:
    Always remember, the reason that Republicans hate sex so much is that they have to pay for it.
    ……

  20. 20.
    Posted by Lisa on 07/11/07 at 5:47 pm

    It is not the use of prostitutes…it is the hypocrisy. How dare these holier than thou types dictate how we should live our lives and preach “family values” while they are paying prostitutes for sex. Assholes…

  21. 21.
    Posted by steve davis on 07/11/07 at 6:05 pm

    Nope. We really do have two lunatics in the senate in this state. You think Demint is bad, Lindsey Graham purportedly has a law degree from somewhere and works as a judge for JAG, and yet the man on at least three dozen occasions tried to analogize the enemy combatants at Guantanamo with German prisoners of war during WWII. In Charleston, he may be dumb as dogshit. Upstate, we would just say someone was “dumb as Graham.” More insulting, because once you get Graham on the bottom of your shoe, you might as well just discard the pair. You can’t get him off with peanut butter.

  22. 22.
    Posted by oldgringo on 07/11/07 at 7:45 pm

    Hope and pray S.C. keeps ALL theirdixicrat REPUBLICANS to themselves: Idaho already has more than a full compliment of “dogshit dumb” republicans in office now, so PLEASE DO NOT SEND US ANY MORE!

  23. 23.
    Posted by Chupacabra on 07/12/07 at 7:50 am

    I could care less where some cracker bible-thumper sticks his little wee-wee and whether or not he pays cash to the lucky recipient.

    BUT: when someone makes other peoples’ wee-wees and where they stick them a political issue, then his personal business is fair game.

  24. 24.
    Posted by anonymous on 07/12/07 at 10:13 am

    i know i’m anonymous, but not lately on the public payroll-like mr. vitter. i think he just pulled a heck of a dissapearing act.

  25. 25.
    Posted by NOLAmite on 07/12/07 at 10:45 am

    Don’t forgey that the DC Madam’s lawyer said that Dick Cheneys name was “not, not on the list”

  26. 26.
    Posted by KF on 07/12/07 at 10:46 am

    Someone should revisit the Jeff Ganon spending the night in the White House story.

  27. 27.
    Posted by a sc atheist on 07/12/07 at 11:20 am

    there is a god.

  28. 28.
    Posted by Myrtle on 07/12/07 at 3:07 pm

    #1 Dana Milbank is a tool. #2 The “other” senator phone # is the office of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). #3 Man, o man there are a bunch of tools here, too.

  29. 29.
    Posted by a sc atheist on 07/12/07 at 3:44 pm

    Dana Milbank is a tool, and Myrtle is a beach. ;-)

    Myrtle, darling, the point of this exercise, doh, is to reflect on the hypocrisy of the transgressors.

    The last I recall about the late Moynihan was that he was not crowing about his holier-than-thou family life v. going-to-hell family life of persons he didn’t like, or with whom he had political differences.

    He discoursed with political opponents, unlike the hypocrites who have intercourse with those they condemn in public.

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