First, some background from this story:
BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
HARWOOD: What?
BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.
O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?
BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you. But so, a lot of them spend so much time needing people’s love and yet they are shooting upwards their whole life, they’re not that great in normal human relationships. And so, they’re like freaks, they don’t know how to, they’re lonely. They reach out ...
We all know that politicians in general can be pretty screwed up, but this is bad even by Republican standard. David Vitter in a diaper doesn't come close...at least that was private and consensual.
Now David Brooks doesn't say when this party was, but let's assume it was a recent party to weed out the obvious names such as Larry Craig. Let’s also weed out senators such as John Ensign and David Vitter whose scandals fall on the heterosexual side of the spectrum. That makes it more interesting.
So which of the following Republican senators do you think it was?