I do find it a little sad that Mr. Culbertson has to personify this force as an angry dude keeping score up in the sky, meeting out that dreadful 90s word “consequences,” but I suppose we all must operate within our limits.

I don’t think infidelity alone should bar an otherwise qualified and effective person from serving in public office. I do have a problem with someone who flogs that family values horse to get elected or to go after a political opponent when said someone can’t live up to the standards s/he demands of everyone else. I won’t demand Ensign’s resignation*, but it occurs to me that his demonstrated hypocrisy should render him too embarrassed to show his face in the Senate. Sanford, on the other hand, needs to go — and go now. He’s the governor, for God’s sake, but he showed the judgment of an immature teenager when he took off to visit his girlfriend without informing anyone of his whereabouts or temporarily handing over authority to the lieutenant governor.