Comments on: The Weiner saga

By: Gringo

Gringo — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:37:16 +0000

Interesting that the Pubs are supposed to have a “War on Women,” yet the Demos have the likes of Spitzer and Weiner running for office.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 07:04:46 +0000

“Weiner’s holding firm”

You might want to rephrase that, ba-DUMP. Or maybe you did …

By: Huatou

Huatou — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:56:30 +0000

Back in the day… Profumo spent his remaining life after scandal working in a homeless shelter and learning humility. Now, it appears, a major scandal is a mere blip on one’s CV.

By: southpaw

southpaw — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:32:32 +0000

Well Weiner’s holding firm and refusing to back out, so the voters will have to prove they aren’t as dumb as everyone thinks they are.
Besides it being reckless and dumb behavior for a man seeking a high profile political office, it strikes me as being adolescent at best and aberrant at worst. It’s one thing to share a sexual message with your wife or girlfriend, at least the text portions – quite another to be trolling the Internet for strangers and assuming phones names like Carlos Danger, and sending pictures of your crotch around. The fact that New Yorkers can no longer define what a is normal human behavior between adults and whats aberrant is interesting to watch.
I wonder if the next candidate will be a proud serial peeping Tom, or maybe a flasher – running around upper Manhattan or Times Square in a trench coat?
I feel sorry for his wife and I don’t. Nobody deserves that kind of humiliation unless they put up with it
Election night will be interesting – if he wins, will send out a tweet with a picture of his package that says ” I beat the odds!” ?

By: Jim Nicholas

Jim Nicholas — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:22:47 +0000

“The Weiner saga is not just about sex, or sexting, or sexual infidelity of the mental sort. It’s about the almost breathtaking capacity of some people to think they can get away with behavior that’s already been uncovered, and that they’ve already sworn to stop.”

What is breathtaking for me is the number of persons who will still vote for him, that he may get away with it.

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:41:37 +0000

I have some sympathy for Gary Hart. IIRC, he claimed it was the best sex he ever had. That’s worth a certain amount of sacrifice 😉

Of course, he was also a self centered blame shifter, but that is rather common in politicians and ubiquitous among ambitious Democrats.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:25:05 +0000

I don’t want to know anything more about this. Really. Make it stop.

Would any fortune 100 company hire him as its CEO after this 2nd scandal? No. So why on earth should he be running one of America’s largest cities?

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:29:30 +0000

While it may be a good thing to keep an open mind, one must take care that it’s not so open that one’s brain falls out. New York’s brain has fallen out.

Mr. Weiner could not get elected to dog catcher in fly over country.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:26:51 +0000

And he is one of the front runners in the political race!

That says more about the voters than it does about him.

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:16:34 +0000

You know I think the Democrats are starting to not be “cool” anymore to that constituency that cared about that sort of thing.