I don’t see why Wiener’s sexcapades are anyone’s business but his own and his wife’s and that of all the women he sexted and sextwittered. I think it goes without saying that if you don’t want to vote for someone who enjoys showing pictures of his genitals, he’s not the man to vote for. But in that case you shouldn’t be voting at all. Vote on policies. Is he the best man for the job? Who cases, he showed his penis.
Was Clinton not a better president than Bush, who was characterised by George Carlin as a “wife-fucker”?
I’m not eligible to vote for him, but based on his record before his last resignation he seems to have a decent political platform. So why’s everyone so down on him?
I think only Dennis Kucinich has a worse record than Weiner for actually being successful in sponsoring legislation, (1 bill vs 0), and that was a feel-good acclamation, not serious legislation.
Why bother ever voting for someone who cannot get even a single bill passed?
I don’t think people are down on him so much for the sexual behavior but for the blatant lying and unreliability. Now politicians in general aren’t known for telling the truth, but few take it to such ridiculous extremes on matters on which they are bound to be caught. Also, the fact that he appears to be unable to keep from doing stuff he knows is bound to get him bad publicity (to say the least) doesn’t say much for his self control.
The guy has behavioral problems that go well beyond his sexual habits.
As you can see upthread, he got caught the first time because he sexted someone who was not a sex partner- just a member of the public. That speaks pretty poorly for him. It’s not that different from flashing somebody. Then he went back to doing this after getting caught and resigning in disgrace, which makes him look like an idiot.
He has no track record at all. He was a do-nothing member of Congress who thought the point of holding office was introducing bills and getting his name in the newspaper. He’s running against three other candidates who’ve held citywide office and can say they’ve accomplished things. The irony of it is that if he hadn’t been caught sexting, you wouldn’t know who he is. It seems like a bunch of people want him to win because they think it would send a message about ignoring the private lives of politicians, but it really wouldn’t.
Because people like talentless fame whores on reality TV, but not as much in politics.
If you knew anything about the current NYC Mayoral field, would you know he’s George fucking Washington in the impulse control and good judgement department by comparison, and his opponents come in three flavors: “ineptly corrupt” “hilariously useless” and “genuinely evil.”
He’s actually the best candidate by a mile.
Spitzer is almost sure to make Comptroller, btw, and he was not only sexually indiscreet, he broke the very laws he was charged with enforcing.
That’s different. I was talking about people who don’t live in the city. And in fact that wasn’t really true anyway- he did manage to get some press occasionally for being a liberal firebrand. But he never did anything except talk (and, it turns out, show people his junk).
You are missing a category, “party hack.” It’s a truly horrible field. I am slightly surprised that Weiner’s popularity has fallen quite as precipitously as it has, but I guess there are a lot of democrats on Staten Island.
BTW, why does NYC elect its mayor in odd-numbered years? That’s unusual. Most jurisdictions time local elections to coincide with Congressional and Presidential and state-legislative and gubernatorial elections, to increase turnout.
It looks to me like it’s just happenstance- in the 19th century the mayor served a one-year term and they changed it to four years for the 1897 election. But of course it could also be because we need to be different.
It looks to me at this point that Quinn will probably get the nomination. What are her chances in the election? Can a married lesbian win this even in NYC?
I was talking about people who don’t live in the city. And in fact that wasn’t really true anyway- he did manage to get some press occasionally for being a liberal firebrand. But he never did anything except talk (and, it turns out, show people his junk).