GOP Louisiana Senator David Vitter – Put A Fork in Vitter – HE’S DONE; Update: Vitter Denies and Says Incident Overstated
Senator David Vitter has responded:
“After being delayed on the Senate floor ensuring a vote on my anti-pay-raise amendment and in a rush to make my flight home for town hall meetings the next day, I accidentally went through a wrong door at the gate,” Vitter said in a statement. “I did have a conversation with an airline employee, but it was certainly not like this silly gossip column made it out to be.”
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), accompanied by his wife, Wendy Vitter, speaks during a news conference in Metairie, La., after a scandal linking him to a Washington escort service, July 16, 2007.
Among Members of Congress, there’s a long-standing, proud tradition of the Airport Freakout. Add to the list of those who’ve indulged in meltdowns and temper tantrums while traveling one Sen. David Vitter, who on Thursday joined what we’ve dubbed the “Mile-Low Club†by going ballistic on an airline worker after missing a flight from Washington’s Dulles airport to New Orleans.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee should make it immediately clear to Vitter that he is done and recruit a candidate to replace him – before the national GOP loses another seat. God knows the Republican Party has enough vulnerable ones in the coming 2010 election.
Bye Bye
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7 Comments
Sal
We can’t keep throwing our own overboard. He has not done anything illegal, he has done his job, he is not a RINO. We are going to be pushing against Specter now, we cannot afford to lose a seat because of a one-sided drive-by media report that may or may not be true. We have to focus on who the real enemies are: Obama, the Democrats, and the RINOs.
Flap
Sorry but Vitter is a liability.
Time to cut him loose and early.
Sal
Always better to have an incumbent running (unless he is mired in scandal, which Vitter is not, or a RINO) than to have to defend an open seat, especially considering Louisiana’s messed up election system.
Flap
Vitter will lose the seat to to whoever the Democrat is.
Get rid of him.
Sal
Sorry for the over-abundance of comments.
Not necessarily. In Louisiana, there are no primaries. Anyone who wants to can run in the general election. So there could be 5 Democrats and 3 Republicans. If no one gets over 50%, then the top 2 candidates would face a run-off. So assuming Vitter does not step down on his own accord, adding another Republican to the mix increases the chances that two Democrats will end up in the run-off. Better to have a single Republican and hope that multiple Dems end up canceling each other out, which usually happens to challengers in Louisiana. That’s one of the main reasons that the incumbent usually wins, unless they are incompetent and hopelessly corrupt. Throw a challenger in the seat and you are likely handing it to the Democrats.
Flap
With Vitter’s baggage I doubt he would win.
And then there is the greater question: why would the GOP want him back?
Nathan
This guy needs to step down… it’s not a matter of retaining a seat it’s a matter of who do you want representing you. This guy DID break a law (with a hooker) and possibly trying to enter an area of an airport that he wasnt supposed to. This guy is scum and he’s bring down the party (with or without the airport incident)