Wonkette
Gee, usually when married people publicly confess to having a hot dirty sex affair with some person they’re not married to, folks stand up and cheer! But for poor Senator John Ensign, it has only made him less popular. How exactly are he and fellow Republican adulterer Governor Jim Gibbons supposed to defeat the Mormon saint Harry Reid when they can’t get voters to like them?
TO BE FAIR, an unpopular John Ensign is still more popular than Harry Reid, who is as reviled within his home state as he is outside of it. And yet Gibbons is inching dangerously into “slightly less popular than the child predator next door” territory, with only 10 percent of voters approving of him. So what will become of the grand Ensign-Gibbons coalition? Obviously they must seduce Harry Reid’s wife.
SEX SCANDAL: ENSIGN’S APPROVAL RATING DROPS [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
Televangelist hair. And morals, apparently.
What’s not to love? Personally, I love everything about this guy, from the hairline up.
Really Senator — if you’re going to fuck someone, make sure she’s a) single and b) out of state. #Constituentfail.
Harry Reid has a wife? I just can’t picture this at all.
They’re gamblers in Nevada. They like long odds. Makes for exciting politics (and sex).
Personally I think Ensign’s approval ratings are dropping because this affair is boring. Really, he couldn’t find a more exciting extramarital dalliance in Nevada? Way to boost your state’s economy, jackass - no male hookers, no coke and no sleazy hotel rooms means a lot of upset and unemployed people in that state!
There are residents Nevada? I thought “the loneliest highway” meant there was just sagebrush and other folks passin’ through.
Dog Trombone: Not ‘zackly: if he had real televangist morals, Rear-Admiral Ensign would be doing hookers, teh gheyz, and/or kiddies. So this dude’s just a dud on all levels.
The reason they hate him is that he’s too ‘city-fied’. Visit a Carson City or Virginia City casino if you want to see what real Nevadans looks like… that or rent a Ma and Pa Kettle film.
America needs a better Nevada Senator, like Pat Geary. Damn you, Michael Corleone for depriving us of a great American statesman!
Now he’ll have to pay Karl Rove big bucks to paint Harry Reid as an effeminate socialist fancy-pants. Ok, maybe not [i]big[/i] bucks.
I think the Great State of Nevada should choose their public officials in a manner more in accordance with the traditions of the state. Write the name of anybody who wants to be Governor, Senator or whatever on a big wheel, give that sucker a hefty spin, and take whoever wins.
It could not possibly result in a worse bunch.
Ensign’s problems could have easily been solved by Nicky Santoro.
“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin’ night.”
LVJR server seems to be having fidelity problems with the intertubes.
Try:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2009/06/poll_ensign_approval_rating_dr.html
— “62% of voters think Ensign should not resign from the Senate” —
Because Gibbons might nominate himself to take Senator Promise Keeper’s place.
He’d make a good mayor on Reno 911.
octupletsmom: Outside of Las Vegas, no there are basically no residents.
Scarab: Go visit Harry at home. Searchlight. Woo boy that is some metropolis!
Harry needs more corrupt gangsters to try to blow him up again. That would make him more popular.
gurukalehuru: That’s how they got these two. It landed on double zeros.
Say what you like, that is a beautiful head of hair…
His decline in popularity is due to the relative lack of hotness in his chosen bedmate. They’ve lost respect for him. “You’re a senator and that’s the best you could do?” Senators need to be boinking at least Donald Trump-level material, not friendly but frumpy housewives with grown children. Or perhaps the grown children, provided they are female.
I doubt that she deserves to have Ensign anywhere near her even if Harry is such a spineless tool.
Tommmcatt: Your optimism is appreciated. His locks are undeniably thick and juicy.
Scarab: Your post jogged long-forgotten memories of seeing Ma and Pa on the ol’ black and white teevee, which prompted a video search. There’s a bit on how to do math country-style that’s an absolute hoot…scope it out!
The Dems are real noodle heads for picking Sens from purplish/reddish to be their majority leader. I mean no one from Hawaii or Rhode Island is avaliable?
Tommmcatt: And to think how far he’s come since Rocky Horror.
All voters should question a Senator who choses to have an affair with a 45 year old.
zenferret: I haven’t been to Vegas since we visited a great-aunt when I was a child and Vegas was a dusty strip. Said auntie was a Holy Roller. I am confused as to why she migrated from God’s Country (Oklahoma) to Sin City. She migrated back after her husband died, and sent me interminable letters about Jesus when I was in college, though I met her only the one time. I can’t think of Vegas without thinking of Pentecostal Auntie.
shortsshortsshorts: His locks are undeniably thick and juicy.
Due to regular “protein” treatments, no doubt.
“Obviously they must seduce Harry Reid’s wife?” More like; “Obviously they must seduce Harry Reid’s wives.” He is Mormon after all.
Since when did Ensign start selling real estate?
Why won’t Wonkette provide a picture of his “lady friend?”
hobospacejunkie: Eggzackly. I mean if you are going to sink your career by nailing some strange, at least find yourself a hottie!!! That is the most dissapointing thing about this whole ” running the Ensign up the pole” scandal. It’s Vegas, for jeebus’s sake. Some bimbo oh so slightly past her prime hottie could have had her Jessica Hahn/Donna Rice moment. What a selfish bastard this Ensign guy is.
Capitol Hillbilly: The ladyfriend, for being such a prick magnet, is rather plain. She must be a wonderful conversationalist.
I totally agree this thing needs some sizzle. Like Megyn Kelly throwing herself between Ensign and the cuckholded husband’s mother, a withered old crone, who points a crook’d finger at Ensign and screeches, “He made my son wear the horns. Vendetta, bella madonna!”
Note to Republican Caucus:
If your going to tag a little strange you’re better off getting caught humping a nineteen year old political groupie instead of her 45 y/o mom. Meghan McCain comes to mind. Granted, sex with a forty five year rocks since she knows things her little angle hasn’t dreamed of yet but grown women often have lawyers, Republican groupies just have herpes. There are treatments for herpes and one day we may find a cure. Once you get lawyers, on the other hand, you’ll be plagued by them till the day you die.
Remember
Bad Sex + Herpes = Win
But just wait to see how fast his ratings rise when he announces that he will give every voter in Nevada’s teenage son an overpaid internship….
This scandal is so tawdry and boring. It’s Nevada, people. The hottie should be a real hottie and the campaign cash should’ve payed for her new, giant boobs. Plus, her line of credit at one of those sex toy shops they have there. Or so I’m told.
Now there’s the “close friend” talking to the AP about an earlier Ensign affair that ended in 2002.
Hypocrite!
Pictures, also.
Scarab: True. Even Reno is too much “city” for most real Nevadans…
Most residents of Las Vegas and Reno are California transplants.
Obviously the mistake was not leaving it in Vegas. I guess that’s what an “outside the beltway” mentality is; once you whip it out of your beltway, for all of America to see, it is fair game. Unless you are in Vegas.
As far as the “real” Nevada: Battle Mountain, baby, all the way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A31628-2001Nov28
Add his to the list of names of self-fulfilling prophecies. Senator In-Sin.
boatapple: She’s a strapping buck who’s always waiting at home for Harry with a tablespoon of cod liver oil and a thick strap for when he’s naughty.
Say what you will, the man still has great hair.
Blingee time!
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/93543175-John-Ensign