Mr. Home-Wrecker Goes to Washington

Why shouldn't we judge Rudy Giuliani by his disastrous home life?

Last week, the press was inevitably mocked as prudes and puritans as we turned our attention to a nice little Washington sex scandal. But even if the existence of the D.C. Madam should come as no surprise and isn't worth clucking over, that doesn't mean we have to shrug off every moral lapse and breach by politicians. It also doesn't mean, for one, that only Bible-thumpers have the right to be disturbed by the personal misdeeds of Rudy Giuliani or think about their relevance to the sort of president he might be.

Read more at Slate.

Hat tip reader comment at Daily Paul.