SharonA,

Condit was having ongoing sexual relations with possibly as many as four other women besides Chandra (assuming of course, that he was still sleeping with his wife), quite a trick for a guy who doesn't even have his own car, so he probably didn't even think about her when she wasn't around. I bet that he thinks about her a lot more now that she is gone--

Jed, you seem like a decent guy, with principles, and a sense of what is right and wrong--that is probably why you are so confused on this issue--

The thing is, this town is full of married elected officials who do the same thing as he does, figuring anything goes between consenting adults--even worse, some are not even picky about either the adult or the consenting part. And most of the ones who don't do it have been drunk for so long that they can't do it anymore--So if he deserves to be sent home, so do all the rest of them--of course, that would create two new problems--Who would run the country? And who would protect the folks back home from all those drunken lechers?

Sorry to be seem so cynical, but I live here and get to see this stuff close-up--to someone who is not part of it, it all looks pretty unsavory--though the town is full of young, eager types, who buy into the whole thing--