Fox News - Rep. Christopher Lee resigned from office Wednesday just hours after a report claimed the married Republican congressman sent a shirtless photo of himself to a woman on Craigslist. "The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately.".."It's unfortunate. He did the right thing," he said. "This is one of the things my wife and I talked about during the campaign. If someone is willing to lead a secret life away from their spouse, how can the general public trust you?"
This is ridiculous. We're getting to the point where we're literally going to run out of qualified people for office if we keep holding them to these ridiculous Puritanical standards. There just aren't that many losers out there these days who don't have some skeleton in their closet or fetish that the Tea Party Unichs won't find morally reprehensible. And with the advent of the internet, even those too shy or mentally fragile to make waves in the real world are letting their inner freak flag fly annonymously (or so they assume) on the internet.
Just think about everyone you knew in high school and then in college for a second. Can you honestly think of one squeaky clean person who could do no wrong at one time or another. And if you can, can you be sure that they weren't going back to their dorm at night trolling sexually deviant message boards or exposing their genetalia via webcam? I can't.
