Nobody wants to think about some poor hooker in 5 inch heels wiping David Vitter's ass while changing his nappy. It's totally disgusting. David Vitter is hideously unattractive, and has flabby pasty skin would be disgusting any which way but with shit smeared all over it? I'm making myself nauseous and I'm immortal and don't even have a digestive system!
Anyway as it turns out Anthony Weiner is kind of cute and an exhibitionist, and modern and All-American in his interests. He's got the hot long-suffering (pregnant!) wife, he wants to show off his junk in a new-media way, he's got good pecks, he sends his photos to young attractive women. It's juicy, it's American (we invented twitter, amirite) it's right before the 4th of July.
David Vitter, ugh. We and the media couldn't talk about it because we couldn't fathom it. There was no way to parse the scandal! To open it up, examine it, let it reach the light of day because we were very anxious to push it back into the netherworld where we would never have to think about it again.
And that my friends is the difference between who goes down in sex scandals and who doesn't. It's nothing to do with republicans or democrats, its about the attractiveness of the parties involved. There's a total correlation between how turned on we as a public are by the scandal and how much we want to talk about it.
I'm so sorry for making you think about David Vitter at all. His campaign ads never feature pictures of him for this very reason.
I should have just deferred to your better judgment when reading this, because I didn't know what David Vitter looked like, so I looked it up. There went my lunch.
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