Sen. Bob Torricelli (D) - Implicated in a bribery and campaign finance scandal.
Sen. Joseph Biden (D) - Admitted committing plagiarism during his Senate career.
Sen. Gary Hart (D) - Marital infidelity.
Rep. Dan Crane (R) - Consensual sexual relationship in 1980 with a 17-year-old female congressional page, censured by the House, tearfully apologized, defeated in reelection.
Rep. Barney Frank (D) - A male prostitute living with Frank conducted a prostitution ring from his apartment, Frank was reprimanded for fixing 33 of the pimp's parking tickets.   
Rep. Duke Cunningham (R) - Convicted of tax evasion, conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, and wire fraud, and resigned in shame.
Rep. William Jefferson (D - Under investigation by the FBI for suspected corruption and expects to be indicted.
Rep. Bob Bauman (R) - Solicited sex from a 16-year old male prostitute.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D) - Slugged a Capitol police officer in the chest.
Rep. Gary Condit (R) - Marital infidelity with 2 different women, one of them a Wash. D.C. intern who was found murdered.  Condit was suspected of withholding important information about her disappearance.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D) - Accepted a bribe and was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for corruption and perjury.  Reelected in 1992.  (If the Democrats were to regain control of the House, as of 2006 Hastings would be next in line, due to his seniority, to chair the House Intelligence Committee.)
Mayor Rudi Guliani (R) - Marital infidelity
Rev. Jesse Jackson (D) - Marital infidelity, fathered a child with his mistress.
Roscoe Dixon (D) - Convicted of extortion and payoffs.

Despite the reprehensible behavior of a handful of those in high places over the years, Christians must not get discouraged and opt out of the process.  Sinners sin!  Why should that surprise Christians?  Keep in mind that our religious liberty is at stake!  Christians mustn't become disheartened or apathetic and withdraw from the process.  Like it or not, politics affects every aspect of our lives, and if we expect to continue preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in this country, we must not give in to the Secular Humanists and their anti-God agenda.  If we give up now, the next Speaker of the House, just behind the vice president in the line of succession to the presidency, will be, horror or horrors, shrill partisan Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco liberal!   

Is punishing Republicans worth the cost?

The American Family Association offers the following reasons for people of faith to vote in the November election:

How important are the upcoming elections? Extremely important! Below is a list of what we can expect if the liberals win. These elections are crucial. It is vitally important that you vote. Please vote and encourage others to do the same. As bad as things are, they will be infinitely worse if the liberals win.

The strategy of the liberals is to get Values Voters so disgusted and discouraged that they will not vote. If that happens, the liberals will have achieved their goal and they will be running our country.

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