Long as Cold-Eye Cotton and Diaper David Vitter hold up the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as Attorney General of the United States (along with Mitch McTurtle, TomTom Tillis, Half-Hatched Hatch, Gone-to-Grass Grassley, Huffy Inhofe, Lunky Lankford, et al), I say we call the buyer in the sex trade transaction (the act of the commodification of women, girls, boys and, sometimes, men in order for the buyers to have sex on their own selfish and often violent terms), I say we call that particular actor in that particular type of transaction "The Vitter", no S at the end, "The Vitter" signifying both the singular and the plural of the term.
Now, "The Vitter" isn't a nice single-syllable, four-letter appellation for the buyer in these sordid transactions (sordification by virtue of the exploitation and the diminution of mostly women and girls under the rules of unregulated Capitalism allowing the means of commerce -- cash, coinage, currency, credit, lines of credit, et al -- to largely accrue to the very few -- mostly white and 99 percent male -- so that they can do anything that they damn well please with the people who don't have the means of commerce -- cash, coinage, currency, credit, lines of credit, et al -- largely nonwhite, female, or nonadult and powerless), but it frees the innocent, innocuous "Johns" from the tainting they suffer from current usage.
Why "The Vitter"? Apply yourself to the below:
Two likely candidates for the honor fell on their "swords" (no double-meaning intended) early on and eliminated themselves from the fray -- but David Vitter, Republican Senator from Louisiana?:
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) resigned from Congress when he was caught in a sexting affair, and then nuked his attempted mayoral comeback campaign by doing the same. Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) resigned and fell short in his own comeback bid because he'd been caught frequenting high-end prostitutes.
Then there's Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R), a self-styled family values conservative who in 2007 admitted to having been a client of the infamous "D.C. Madam," Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Soon after his admission and public apology, Vitter resigned from office and left politics for good.
Ha, just kidding: He hung around Congress and, less than three years later, won a resounding reelection. . .
And his fellow Republican Senators stood solidly -- and applaudingly -- behind him all the way:
Back on Capitol Hill, Vitter kept a low profile as reporters pressed him for details about his connection to the escort service.
.... For much of the day, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a friend and fellow social conservative helped shield Vitter from reporters and photographers - all assigned to capture Vitter's first day back to the Capitol.
.... Vitter made a brief statement to his Republican colleagues at the luncheon, reportedly reiterating the comments he made in Louisiana. Applause could be heard inside the room. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., who like most members wouldn't disclose what Vitter said, reported that his comments went over well.
"People were very supportive," Thune said. "People realize he has worked through this this past week. I think everybody is ready to move forward."
.... Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, exemplified the forgive-and-forget view voiced by Senate Republicans.
So I say "Hoist on their damned family-values petard" and onward with "The Vitter".
Particularly because these damned "family-value" Republicans are using a bill ostensibly created to aid victims of human trafficking to block the confirmation of Loretta Lynch with language in the bill forcing the women or girls who have been crime victims to bear the children of the predators who harmed them.
And we need to start arresting and punishing the real criminals in the sex traded, the buyers who use their easy access to economic, political and social power to exploit those who are held powerless by our capitalistic, patriarchal culture.