I'm telling you, I know Bob Ney.

He's a publicity-hungry, think-later-act-now, superficial prettyboy Congressman.

But I repeat myself. He won his toughest race when it became unofficially known that his opponent started spreading "Ney is gay" slurs, barely trying to hide that it was them.

Ney's district (at the time -- he's since been gerrymandered) is very, very conservative, working class Democrat. Once word got out that he was being slandered, sympathy for him pushed him over the top. Oh yeah, he was part of the GOP class of '94, which helped too.