Who cares about someone's personal, private sex life? Even if he's married and cheating, it's not a public issue, right?

That's what we heard from the left and defenders of President Clinton during his impeachment trial. But now, going by Markos Moulitsas, that policy would seem to be inoperative:

Jerome and I have just finished interviewing a long-time Texas political writer here in Austin who says that Rove is absolutely having an affair... Rove is married and has a teenaged son. According to this writer, Rove's wife is a hardcore liberal. "I don't know how he and his wife get along," he said.

Well, quite obviously, they do not.

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Putting aside the obligatory references to hypocrisy, what's the obsession with the sex lives of people like Jeff Gannon and Karl Rove? Isn't that more than just a little, well, creepy?