Did I hear Reynolds wrong, or did he admit to not actually READING THE EMAILS?

This may may help Reynolds but it throws everyone else under the Bus.

Although they are asking for forgiveness, they don't really apologize.  Is this the new Republican tactic, crying....?

There's a big difference between being truly sorry and putting on an act in the hope that it might get you re-elected; sorry guys but I think it was pretty clear on which side you fall.  

Reynolds says sorry as just about the last word of his advert which is way too late. Given his current standing in the polls I think he had to do a lot more than this. Had this been a news conference it might have come across better.

As for Sherwood that was just terrible. You could see him struggling to read his lines. I don't even know the background to which he was referring and it came across as though he must have done something really bad.

I think the idea is a reasonable one if the polls look horrible for you but the execution has to be so much better than these two managed.

Amazing that, in an effort to save his own skin, he is seeking to pin all the blame on Hastert.

I'm not sure if the ad will be effective, or if it will just seem to voters that he is trying to avoid any responsibility by pointing to others... but the mere fact that he is running such an ad (simultaneously contrite and blaming others) makes it clear that he knows what a hole he has dug himself into and the voters in his district are very unhappy about it.

Will be nice to see Jack Davis beat him Nov 7th

Sherwood has already publically apologized for his behavior to his constituents not long after the affair and assault was revealed and he settled the lawsuit brought by Ms Ore out of court. That didn't help him and I doubt this will either. He's just lost the trust of constituents who thought they knew him as a someone "just like them" but were subsequently disabused of that notion. I just don't think Sherwood is going to win these folks back no matter how often he apologizes.

I love it when criminals break into the passive voice about their crimes, "It's regrettable the entire family was wiped out." Tom Reynolds: "More should have been done." I'll give it to Sherwood, he stood up like a man, but gotta wonder about the message, "I did NOT strangle my mistress and anyway, none of this stopped me from cutting your taxes."

These guys are even more done than the Yankees today.

Don Sherwood's ad is pathetic.

Reynolds says, "I immediately forced Foley to resign" after the overtly criminal IMs came to light.

From everything I've read, Foley resigned almost immediately--like, within the hour--after ABC told his staff they had the sexually explicit IMs. I haven't seen anything to suggest that Reynolds knew anything about Foley's resignation before it was announced.

It's an awfully stupid lie to tell, because it makes his already somewhat mealy-mouthed apology look awfully disingenuous (assuming Reynolds' opponent makes something of it). Anyone know any more about this?

"Vote Republican: We're Really, Really Sorry"

Sherwood apologizes for abuse? What abuse? to pages? Oh - I scroll down and see it was for abusing his wife? This is an ad or what? You can't tell what abuse he's talking bout. Gosh they like to cry when they get caught. No, I thought both ads were ineffective. Both men look like cry babies.

Unbelievable.  Excellent post.

The thing you get from Sherwood is this "Norquist" crazy talk that cutting taxes somehow cancels out personal malfeasance.

Or, to put it another way, that you can mention "cutting taxes" and that obviates the fact that you are on the air paying for an ad to address your personal malfeasance.

That's crazy talk.  What planet is he on?

SUBPOENA FOLEY !!!!

Stop the finger pointing. Go for the kill.