Blunt: Affairs may be a "distraction"

Rep. Roy Blunt spoke with a reporter from The Washington Examiner this afternoon after Gov. Mark Sanford's (R-SC) press conference ended:

Rep. Roy Blunt, the former House Majority Leader who is now a GOP candidate for governor (sic) in Missouri, is no stranger to scandal, having gone through an affair, a public divorce and remarriage under the scrutiny of the press.

"This can be a distraction," Blunt said of the Ensign and Sanford scandals. "But I think the issues are big enough that they will quickly overcome the distraction."

For the same article, Rep. Jo Ann Emerson was asked about who might emerge as a leader for the GOP. "You would think out of the chaos would rise someone, but I don't know who it is going to be," she said.