This Time Weiner is Bad

You've heard the stories and if you've watched Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Falon, Letterman, and the gang, then you've also heard the jokes.

For those of you who are following the Conference of Mayors in Baltimore or are glued to the television getting the latest gossip about Jersey Shore cast member Snooki instead, let me bring you up to date. New York Congressman Anthony Weiner was caught "sexting" with women who were not his wife. He even sent some scandalous pictures of himself without a shirt on wearing only a towel, a picture taken at the Congressional gym. And he sent sexually-themed messages to other consenting adult women. This is a guy who was considered a front-runner to succeed Michael Bloomberg as Mayor of New York City. And as we all know, Mayors of New York City must be free of skeletons in their closet, except for the other previous Mayors of New York City who had skeletons in their closets.

I know what you're thinking. Politicians have been in trouble and gotten away with far worse sexual escapades than this. There was Gary Hart, the Democratic candidate for President in the 1980's whose affair with University of South Carolina graduate Donna Rice. That caused him to drop out of the Presidential race that left liberals left with Walter Mondale as their candidate.

You'll also recall about 10 years ago a President played peek-a-boo with a cigar in an intern's vagina (Monika Lewinsky) while he was on a conference call with members of Congress and in another episode left his semen on her dress. This is in addition to the numerous other women who admitted they had sexual affairs with this President (Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Salley Perdue, Dolly Kyle Browning, and rumors of affairs with Gina Gershon, Sharon Stone, and Belinda Stronach).

So do you find a bit inconsistent and hypocritical that Weiner is forced to resign for sending topless photos of himself, and messing around with some women, while our former President could do what he wanted and we were told to mind our own business?

However, we were told that the President's sexual infidelity was none of our business. Furthermore, we were later told that the appointed independent council, Kenneth Starr, who was initially hired to investigate the suspicious suicide of Deputy White House Council Vince Foster, was labeled as sordid sexual predator for digging up such details about the President's sexual affairs.

What puzzles me is that both adulterers are Democrats, so it's not like one party is demonizing the other. The Democrats in Congress were the ones demanding this Democrat's resignation. And the liberal media seemed to be in total support of this demand.

So am I crazy? Well, this is coming from someone who thinks peanut butter and banana sandwiches taste better after running 4 miles while rocking to Van Halen, a character flaw that causes many people to dismiss most of what I think without regard.

Kudos to the New York Post to their Weiner Pulls Out headline. It's right up their with the Elliot Spitzer Swallows puns.

Do you think Weiner should have pulled out?