If It’s Wednesday, It’s Another Republican Sex Scandal!

(Originally posted at Hypocrisy.com)

This is rich.

A Republican district attorney, who once argued that the government had a compelling interest in preserving the so-called “sanctity of marriage” against “extrasexual-extramarital sexual relations” (particularly, homosexual relations) has been caught with his own petard (but, in a purely heterosexual way, of course).

During an investigation, as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit, prosecutor Chuck Rosenthal was forced to turn over some of the contents of his government email account. What the investigators found was racist jokes and adult video clips, not to mention, love notes and sexy emails from the Houston attorney to his former mistress (whom he was seeing during a previous marriage).

On top of that, he’s been accused of drinking on the job and official misconduct, which forced him to resign from the Houston prosecutors office and give up his re-election bid.

Before handing over the files he was subpoenaed to, he tried to delete most of them, and then later, lied about it. So, now he’s being charged with obstruction of justice and perjury. He tried to impede a federal investigation and now the web he has woven may land him in jail with some of the other criminals he has put away.

Of course, instead of taking it like a man, he’s taking it like Britney Spears, blaming his troubles on prescription drug use, that impaired his judgment.