You've GOT to be talking about John Jenrette, the good ole boy from ABSCAM.
The day GW Bush lost me was in the aftermath of 9/11. He was on TV making a speech - hell, it may have been the one that night, pardon me, I was in a bit of shock like everyone - and he said something about how we were going to "rid the world of evil."
I'm sitting there listening to this and thinking, "This guy claims to be a Christian and if he is, he KNOWS FULL WELL that he can't do that, that evil isn't going to be removed until the very end of time." I thought that was a little bit too of a Messianic complex for me. And when he began pointing the sword towards Iraq, I suspected I knew what was up.
There's too many of them. I watched Falwell endorse a Klansman in 1980, too, at the same time Reagan was trying both to increase evangelical turnout and distance himself from a local Klan unit that had endorsed him (he threw it back and said "these folks don't understand modern America").