…of Weinergate. I’m going with Occam’s Razor, myself. Particularly considering what a weaselly vaginal rinse the guy is.
Andrew Klavan says that the Weiners of the world are womens’ fault.
[Update]
Weiner comes clean. But he says he won’t pull out. Or…errrrr…something.
Well, why should he? Ted Kennedy killed a young woman, and served for decades more. All you have to do is be a Democrat.
[Update a while later]
So why isn’t the media hounding Huma for a comment? You know they would if he were a Republican.
But….but….we all know when the sexual behaviour of men is boorish or immature its the fault of the patriarchy for tolerating it, whereas when the sexual behaviour of women is boorish or immature it’s the fault of the patriarchy for rewarding it.
I don’t get it. Is this fellow Klavan suggesting that women bear some responsibility for the sexual politics of the world?
Or David Vitter (Republican, paid hookers to change his diapers). Or Larry Ensign, paid off his mistress and finally quit hours before the Senate Ethics Committee called him to testify. Or Larry “Wide Stance” Craig, who finally decided that he just couldn’t win an election.
Zipper problems are an equal-opportunity issue.
That’d be John Ensign (D-NV). Most of the major 2008 GOP Presidential candidates (McCain, Giuliani, Thompson) were admitted adulterers, and the press didn’t make it an issue. Press reaction varies a lot case-by-case, and not on strictly partisan lines.
Ensign is a Republican.
“vaginal rinse ” I must keep this in my commenting vocabulary – thanks!
And re. the whole Weinerfest – I hope his humiliation continues for a looong time.
Um, Jim, Chris, John Ensign is a Republican. Larry Ensign is the one who was a Democrat and paid off his mistress without garnering press scrutiny 🙂
With respect to McCain, Giuliani, and Thompson, to quote the astute social commentator Whoppi Goldberg, the question is if was “adultery adultery” or just simple “adultery.”
Seriously now, I think there are some major differences among the cases mentioned. John Ensign’s behavior is morally odious, not just because he cheated on his wife but that he acted as a home-wrecker to another man’s family too and that he lied, covered up, and misappropriated money in the process.
Larry Craig, on the other hand, got a lot more press attention, and in his case, it seems he is a gay man who was in a marriage of convenience with a woman and who liked trolling public restrooms for dates. I mean he was a closeted gay person, and there are those gay activists who take offense that a gay person would choose to represent the views of constituents who oppose the gay political agenda and would prefer to keep his being gay a private matter. And there was no harm done to anyone apart from the odd male airline traveller who wanted the privacy to occupy a stall in the MSP men’s room to drop a load without some goof in the next stall poking his foot across the partition and making weird hand signals.
For all of the talk about Larry Craig being a hypocrite, maybe Mr. Craig was perfectly comfortable with who he is and perfectly comfortable with the idea that what he is being a personal matter and not otherwise afforded any special accomodation by the state. OK, he lied about it — the wide stance bit — but that was to wiggle out of the police citation and I suppose there are some people around here who never, ever, tried to wiggle out of a traffic ticket.
Mr. Weiner needed to come up with a better excuse than the “I was hacked” because that led to the follow-up question of “Why not call the Capitol Police or the FBI?” And when he was called-out on his story, he went into his Defender of the Left Wing mode where a news producer was called a “jackass” and the reporters weren’t allowing him to get a word in edgewise about the need to vote on a clean Debt Ceiling increase.
The harm Mr. Weiner has done in that going into Defender of the Left Wing Mode when caught in a transparent lie, he weakened the credibility of Defenders of the Left Wing everywhere. That is why Ms. Pelosi wants his scalp.
Rep. Weiner is a megalomaniac.
Senator Craig’s tawdry indiscretion and subsequent departure was a source of deep sorrow to his constituency. He was an eloquent and unrelenting advocate of free markets and individual liberty, and he worked tirelessly to represent the interests of Idahoans. His faithfulness in providing prompt, thoughtful responses to their questions and concerns was without peer, and I will always remember with gratitude how doggedly he fought to have certain troubling portions of the Patriot Act rescinded.
Regarding Weiner as a person, I think he was (is) stupid, jerkish and an idiot.
My point remains the same – politicians (and people in general) of all political stripes get caught with their pants down. No political party has a monopoly on morality or a particularly good record on policing themselves.
My point remains the same – politicians (and people in general) of all political stripes get caught with their pants down.
If liberal democrats are more likely than conservative republicans to have “their pants down”, they’d be more likely to get “caught”, all things being equal. But they aren’t equal. The media puts more effort into discovering the latter, and covering up the former. So your “point” doesn’t have much weight.
And in the end, not all the trolling in the world could change the facts…