Another name Republicans could have mentioned if they’d fought back better would have been Mel Reynolds — the Democratic Congressman who went to jail for, among other things, having sex with a 16 year-old campaign volunteer, soliciting child pornography and various and sundry corruption charges. He was convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. He was subsequently convicted on unrelated bank fraud charges. Bill Clinton commuted Reynolds’ convictions on bank fraud, letting him out of jail early. One does not remember the hothouse of Democratic righteousness about “the children” back then.