Now that Ahnuld has won the governor's seat, there isn't really any reason that other sexual creeps can't be elected to office.

Witness former congressman Mel Reynolds of Chicago's South Side who went to jail in 1995 after he was convicted of sexual misconduct, child pornography and obstruction of justice relating to an affair he had with a campaign volunteer who was a minor. Today's Chicago Sun Times notes:

Convicted felons running for alderman in Chicago are nothing new, but political experts can't recall any convicted sex offenders running for Congress.

"Offhand, I don't know of any," said Ian Stirton, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission. "I don't think it would be particularly [something] you would want to emphasize in your campaign literature."

Reynolds served 5 years in prison before being part of that last-minute series of pardons issued by Clinton before he left office (it's useful to remember in this time of W. that Clinton almost never lost his capacity to be a little bit creepy). Although his criminal record has been wiped clean, Reynolds is still listed on city and state websites that warn of sex offenders.

"Well, so what?" Reynolds said. "And what would you like me to do about that? That is a requirement of the law. What is that going to do to me? How does that affect my life?"