The Gist

The gift that keeps on giving

The DC madam phone list is not just exposing more "family values" Republican hypocrites; it is now perhaps derailing the presidential campaign of a certain Republican former mayor and gay-loving, abortion-promoting adulterer himself, who needed some of that "family values" juice to rub off on him. The latest among the exposed, Senator Vitter of Louisiana -- who'd previously been a pious beacon protecting the "sanctity" of marriage from the sodomites -- is, it turns out, the Giuliani campaign's moral arbiter and gatekeeper to the bible belt, a man who was charged with selling Rudy to fundie voters. Oops!