Sanctimonious Santorum Stumps for S&M Jack Ryan

While Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)is very worried about gay marriage making man-on-dog sex permissible, he jumped in this week to stump for Jack Ryan, the man running for senate in Illinois where his ex-wife, actress (not a very good one) Jeri Lynn Ryan, has accused him of trying to force her to perform sex acts in kinky clubs in front of strangers.

Now, what consulting adults do in the privacy of their relationship is entirely up to them. I'm not particularly shocked that there are people who enjoy sex clubs or want to engage in them with their spouses. It's not my business, although again and again, the GOP in particular has drudged up such things to use against anyone who says boo to them.

No, the real issue is the hypocrisy of the GOP (again) which wants to villify everyone else for every indiscretion (no matter how private or personal) but cries foul when it's one of their own. Ryan was paying a man to follow his opponent, Obama, into restrooms and offices trying to get dirt on Obama. Apparently Obama should have followed Mr. Ryan into Suzy's Dungeon of Whips and Chains.

As Oliver Willis wrote today:

The usual suspects are all atwitter that the left would have the gall to say anything about the recent revelations about Jack Ryan. The problem is that the right has practiced this form of sexual McCarthyism for so long, that eventually it would blow back.

Amen, Oliver.