Ace GOP strategist, Mark McKinnon-- for both George Bush and John McCain-- thinks Ensign should resign immediately. And he told him so. "I think the silence [from other GOP leaders] is inexcusable. We've got to be able to call out our own bad apples when they turn out to be rotten and this is a rotten apple. We shouldn't have to remind our elected officials-- who should be held to a higher standard-- of their firmly held convictions. This is a guy who campaigned on 'higher standards' and accused others of hypocrisy and now he's guilty of it himself... You can't be the 'party of family values' and not value your family-- which is precisely what is happening with John Ensign."Polls show his popularity rapidly diminishing . And Ensign has changed his story again and now claims that Doug Hampton was trying to extort him "for cash and other financial benefits." Every photographer in DC wants to snap a picture of Ensign and Vitter together. Meanwhile, let's hope videographer Max Blumenthal decides to turn this into a docudrama.

Labels: Ensign, McKinnon, Nevada, Republican hypocrisy