Siegel : Don't Resign, Congressman Weiner

interesting post about Weiner by Siegel

Jules Siegel: Don't Resign, Congressman Weiner

By JULES SIEGEL

In case you missed it, a liberal congressman named Anthony Weiner sent a picture of his bulging briefs to a female college student who had invited him to add her to his private Twitter harem. Unfortunately he inserted the wrong code and sent to all his zillion followers, none of whom saw it because he immediately deleted it, except for a rather unsavory guy who was stalking him. Enter right wing fake scandal monger Andrew Breitbart. Congressman Weiner freaks and issues awkwardly false denial. Pictures of other beautiful Weiner Twitter harem girls then appear. One of them proudly confesses to consensual virtual sex with him and publishes the transcript.

Abashed congressman withdraws denial and tearfully cops to being a stupid putz. The next thing you know, Sarah Palin's totally unpolitical Paul Revere vacation tour (in a bus plastered with ads for her PAC) to warn the British that we aren't giving up our guns is off the front pages and Weiner's weiner is getting Nancy Pelosi all hot and bothered, even though the offending picture is not exactly Marky Mark.

Now, as weiner jokes tsunami the Internet, Weiner is in the bunker making apologetic phone calls to Democratic bigshots. Meanwhile, his wife is off being Hillary Clinton's chief of staff while three months pregnant, arousing teabagger speculation that Hillary is really the baby's father and that's why Weiner was resorting to fooling around online instead of saving his precious sperm for post-morning sickness sex. He performed his duty, right? What more do people expect of him? He's just Hillary's beard, they chortle.

I think Anthony Weiner and his wife should go on the View and play this out in public like adult human beings. It will be better than Nixon's Checkers speech. This totally lame scandal is about on the level of getting caught jerking off while looking in the mirror. Like who cares? No body fluids were exchanged. It's thought crime. I'm sure his wife was annoyed, but she's his wife. You can be sure she gets annoyed a lot. Don't they all? I don't see how voters were involved in this.

The GOP doesn't see it that way, of course (except for Boehner, who has not ventured an opinion, possibly because the Enquirer is reporting that he's boning a blonde lady to whom he is definitely not married, as it would be bigamy). Once again, however, Democratic girly men (and women) are showing their utter lack of backbone, just as they stampeded to betray Bill Clinton. This could revive Joe Lieberman's career as a Quisling sell-out. As usual they let the GOP set the rules and the agenda. This is why we lost the House in 2010. The youth vote does not consider sexting a moral flaw, you know.