The sex and hush-money scandal that brought down former Nev. Senator John Ensign is spreading across the Republican party like a permanent stain, stripping bare the party’s hypocrisy on family values.

GOP feels that John Ensign should resign before he damages the party's image.

Senator John Ensign has acknowledged his affair with the wife of his Chief of Staff, John Hampton, but Ensign has cast it as a personal transgression, not a professional one. But an examination of his conduct shows that in trying to clean up the mess from the illicit relationship and distance himself from the Hamptons, he entangled political supporters, staff members and Senate colleagues, some of whom say they now feel he betrayed them.

Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family.

The sex scandal engulfing Sen. John Ensign deepened Wednesday after his former mistress' husband made new allegations about the relationship, saying the Nevada Republican paid the woman more than $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for him last year.