The great, metamorphic trick for public figures ensnared in scandals is somehow to portray themselves as victims of their own transgressions. Senator David Vitter is trying it. He once "failed [his] family", he acknowledges in a new campaign advert, while maintaining that "our falls aren't what define us, but rather how we ...earn redemption". Louisiana was also experiencing hard times, runs the optimistic segue, so he should be its next governor.
展开▼
