On the day that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's extended hike up and down the Appalachia Trail was revealed, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) must have thought that he was the luckiest man alive, knowing that his own affair with a married employee was about to become old news.
But that was before Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign's paramour, decided to go public with more details of the devout and pure family man's affair with his wife.
And this little nugget really jumps out:
Related: Watch the full interview with Doug Hampton at DTKV.
HAMPTON: The truth is, we were going through a really difficult time at the end of December. We had had a robbery at our home. We live not in the same neighborhood as the Ensigns, but in an adjacent neighborhood, relatively close to each other and we had a robbery. And our home was broken into, some doors were knocked down and we were asked to go over and to stay with the Ensigns. We're close. Really close. Close friends. We've been close friends a long time. Very close while we live here in Nevada. While living in the house, Cindy and John got together. John ...
RALSTON: While you moved into their house at - they invited you to their house to stay, when your house has been robbed and they, they, the affair began then?
HAMPTON: Yes.
A seedy motel would have been one thing, but in the same house where the three Ensign and three Hampton children were living? What does the Promise Keeper handbook say about that, Senator Ensign?