I think there is little to speak for his behavior. However, sex scandals are only hypocrisy when someone pretending moral superiority is doing them. Otherwise, they’re just moral lapses.
We’re all creeps. Some are just dumb enough to get caught.
Shouldn’t there be a bunch of aggrieved and mournful victims, crying their eyes out?
So now there’s the possibility that porn star Ginger Lee is involved.
On the one hand, this is a point for Anthony Weiner for good taste - Ginger Lee is really hot. But what will this do to HER career? She might have to resign in disgrace from the porn industry!
When are people going to stop being surprised when they find out that politicians cheat on their wives?
There is one victim here, and it’s his wife.
I am continually reminded of how our congress critters lack basic integrity.
A loathsome creature like Weiner really doesn’t understand why anyone would be upset about this.
Perhaps we should be choosing our leaders from a different pool.
If you needed your car worked on or a leak fixed or had a nasty rash that needed looking at would you ask about or greatly care about the marital fidelity of the mechanic, plumber or dermatologist you went to?
Personally I put politicians in the same category. The only thing that pisses me off about Weiner is that he lied (like Edmund Blackadder’s mother said about the sheep). The only exception are sanctimonious/anti-gay/“marriage is sacred and abortion is murder” types who don’t practice what they preach and so far as I know Weiner wasn’t one of these and save perhaps Andrew Breitbart and the woman who sold the picture to ABC News for $15,000 nobody’s life is better off for knowing this about Weiner and nobody’s life was poorer, save perhaps his wife, for not knowing (and I seriously doubt anybody would argue is wife is better off for being made a public laughing stock).
To be fair, going so far up without changing his name (or taking the pussy Boehner “no no it’s pronounced Benner” route) is a testament to how good a politician he must be. I think he can survive this tempest in a teapot. I mean, it’s not like people waited on it to make Weiner dick jokes, is it ?
PS: I gotta say I’m with '**luci **on this on the whole. If the worst dirt you’ve got on a politician is that he sent photos of his dick to flirtatious women over the interwebs, he’s pretty damn clean.
That’s where we disagree. Elected officials hold positions of public trust. That trust is violated where the official admits that he repeatedly lied to the public about his conduct. He brings dishonor not only upon himself but also upon his office. If he isn’t drafting his resignation speech, he oughta be.
If you are a politician and act like a jackass, disgusting or outraging enough people to prevent your fighting effectively for the things you supposedly believe in (including being forced to resign or losing the next election), then your victims include the causes you allegedly support and the constituents you represent.
Worst of all, he put that human pustule, Andrew Breitbarf, in a position to gain cred and cash more checks. Ewwww!
Is it really so antithetical to American culture that maybe we should leave people’s private lives alone?
Their sex lives have nothing to do with the public trust.
A moral lapse would have been calling Brett Favre for advice. A sex scandal is not a sex scandal simply when an immoral person doesn’t claim to be moral? Don’t you think we’ve been enabling politicians long enough with our own partisan hypocrisy?
True, but lying publically does.
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Also true, but it was nobody’s damned business to begin with.
“Everybody lies about sex.” Robert Heinlein’s Lazarus Long
“Who would you rather piss off? A God you can’t see but who’s said to be forgiving or a wife you can see who ain’t?” Chris Rock
I wonder how the Republicans dancing over this get around the fact they supported John McCain, a known adulterer, in 2008 when he ran against a man with no known infidelities.
Weiner was somebody who’s name I knew but probably couldn’t have picked him out of a lineup before this broke. I hope this doesn’t hurt his reelection chances; I don’t applaud infidelity or extramarital sexting but unless you’re running on a campaign of “infidelity is evil” I really couldn’t care much less whether you’re faithful or not; that’s between you and your partner. It never should have been brought up in the first place, though I’m told that with the ensuing media frenzy for the first time in over a year Breitbart’s own penis reached its full 4 inch length without a Justin Bieber song playing in the background.
Or that some support Newt Gingrich, an adulterer who has declared that he was “partially driven” by his passionate love for his country. :rolleyes:
Of course, no liberals/Democrats would dream of using Gingrich’s behavior against him, seeing as his personal life is none of our business and his bullshit has nothing to do with gaining the public trust, just like when others lie it has nothing to do with character and garnering public trust either. :dubious:
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Of course, no liberals/Democrats would dream of using Gingrich’s behavior against him, seeing as his personal life is none of our business and his bullshit has nothing to do with gaining the public trust, just like when others lie it has nothing to do with character and garnering public trust either. :dubious:
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Speaking only for myself, I always use a disclaimer that it’s only my business if they preach against the lifestyles of others. Gingrich did repeatedly: he was a ringleader in the movement to impeach Clinton for lying about an extramarital affair (while he himself was having an extramarital affair), he was a co-sponsor of DOMA while being a habitual adulterer, he railed against single parent homes and families on welfare when he himself had been a deadbeat dad, he still preaches against moral decay and the need for strong family values, etc.. To borrow a line used on damned near every episode of LAW & ORDER, “You opened that door counselor”.
I don’t believe the governments exists for the purpose of, or is even capable of, promoting personal morality. Laws yes, but there’s a big difference in breaking a law and committing what some would call a sin. A pox always on those who promote themselves as something they are not while condemning others for the same sins.
Please note: this is a guy who is:
a) Named Wiener
b) blessed with a big wiener
c) totally ripped
d) in a very liberal area
Dammit, why aren’t more politicians showing off their goods? This could be a very funny publicity grab if it spun the right way. I mean, think of the ads.
“He’s buff. He’s hot. He’s got something… big to offer the senate… Vote Wiener.”