This, from a HuffPo friend says it better than I:
How many of these men confessed their wrongdoing before they were caught, or even admitted their shortcomings immediately when accused (if ever). Senator Weiner seemed very humbled with his apologies to everyone. He didn't just read a prepared statement, but accpeted questions from the press. Most others in this situation, simply read a statement.
that is the only thing that 'sorta' redeemed him....
until the 'dick' photo hits anyway..
The problem I have with this (beside it being one of my favorite pols) is like it's been said, he'll be known as the 'crotch-shot' guy.. How can he go toe-to-toe with Megan Kelly or anyone on Fox again? How can he go off with a children's book on the House floor again?
Can he do those things again or will this forever 'neuter' him?
The worst thing he did was lie all last week the way he did.. and that's the saddest part about all of this because he didn't do anything
that wrong.... So he talked dirty with another consenting adult and they exchanged photos. He didn't fuck her, he didn't solicit her, it was a her and not a him, he's not out preaching abstinence and family values.. and the coup de grace? Most of them happened while he was single!!! He had nothing to lie about, but did because he was UBER-
embarrassed..
if this wasn't such a highly-partsian era.. he could probably get away with it.. but today? when ppl like Breitbart and James O'Keefe lie to get people fired? when Fox news creates controversy to win elections? When liberals are held to a standard above Jesus because if they falter, they are destroyed by the right's smear/lie/seek and destroy team? How can he come back from this?
Man o Man.. I really do hate that this has happened to this guy. .. It's not the same a lying to your wife and constituents about hiking the Appalachian while you're really off with your lover in another country, it's not the same as being the author of many anti-gay policies and getting caught tapping your foot in the men's bathroom for a hook-up, it's not the same as sleeping with your chief of staff's wife and then bribing the both of them to stay quiet about it or facilitating that bribe for your friend... and He didn't leak the name of an undercover CIA op just for partsian payback for an article in the newspaper!
............but since he's a liberal bulldog, he simply can't come back from this..no matter how tame the incidents are..because there is a higher standard for Dems/Libs..
he needs to resign.. lay lo for awhile.. come back like Spitzer with a show on MSNBC and then run for mayor of NYC in a cpl years..
damnitman! I'm gonna miss him..
