... questioning Landrieu's association with Bloomberg raises an immediate question for Kennedy: If he's a conservative on social issues, will he accept the public assistance of Republican Senator David Vitter?
Asked if he would campaign with Vitter during a conference call yesterday, Kennedy didn't answer directly. "David hasn't offered, and so far I haven't asked," he said. "I don't have plans right now to campaign with anybody." Still, Kennedy said the junior senator had erred. "Senator Vitter made a very serious mistake, and I think he would be the first person to admit that. And David is still paying the price."
Kennedy saying that Senator Vitter would be "the first person to admit [to his serious mistake]" is pretty funny.
First of all, it's amazing that we have to remind anyone in Louisiana that Vitter "admitted" to his "serious sin" only after it came out that he had called the DC Madam's escort service 5+ times while he was serving in Congress. Secondly, Vitter has never admitted to precisely anything other than a vague "sin" or "mistake". Third, Vitter denied very credible stories about him and former French Quarter prostitute Wendy Cortez at every point until he was caught. He denied them in 2002 to reporter Chris Tidmore (who Vitter later retaliated against). He denied them to the "Flaming Liberal" on a radio show in July 2002, and then did it again on a radio program in March 2004. Later that year, in November 2004, he met with a group of Christian pastors and denied the existence of any skeletons in his closet. Even after he admitted his "serious sin" in 2007, he said that the "New Orleans stories" were untrue. Perhaps one day those will be proven, and Vitter will apologize, and Kennedy can again say that Vitter would be the first to admit his mistake.
And as for Vitter still "paying the price"... well, in point of fact Vitter wants his campaign donors to pay $127,000 towards legal bills he incurred due to his involvement in the DC Madam case.
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Update: Now JNK says he is going to appear with Vitter at a campaign event August 26th.
Labels: Cons, Elections and Campaigns, Flaming Liberal, John N. Kennedy, Landrieu, Tidmore, Vitty-cent, Wendy Cortez
