Who do you think was the last politician to actually get away with something like this? Kennedy? Serious question... :shrug:
I just wonder what makes them think they can get away with it. It's not like they can say "Well, look at everyone else who gets away with it" :hmm:
OK. That is your opinion, you are entitled to it.I hold all morally bankrupt individuals with equal contempt, whether in their work or personal life, it doesn't matter.
And moral absolutist GOP voters elect politicians as pure as the driven snow. People are flawed, get over it. I elect politicians to govern not preach morals to me.And thanks to the relativist thinking of people like you, a good majority of the people we've elected to office across the country are highly flawed individuals many of us would soon replace if we had the chance.
Slippery slope argument? Check.As Matt observed above, anyone who would betray their family would also likely sell out their constituents or their country. It's really not hard to understand, unless you are a relativist liberal.
Shit can him.
Whether you believe what he did was *wrong* or not is not even the issue. The opposing party will use it as a distraction, and probably effectively so.
We don't need distractions...least of all now.
Who do you think was the last politician to actually get away with something like this? Kennedy? Serious question... :shrug:
I just wonder what makes them think they can get away with it. It's not like they can say "Well, look at everyone else who gets away with it" :hmm:
Fucking morons.
One more harm from his bad behavior is to give Breitbart a legitimate win, which will give him a larger platform and more credibility for his next slander.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Take a hint about integrity Weiner and what it means to hold office, scumbag.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021003020.html
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I will not defend Weiner for his sexual gaff, but Spidey's posted cartoon is truly sick and distorted.
We should hold all politicians to the same high bar, but when Vitters still in office and the GOP did not kick out Larry Craig, and Ensign only resigned after a criminal type ethics report came out, it hard for Spidey07 to argue that the Dems and the GOP are not held to the same bar by the voting public.
As for me, I am more interested in the quality of a politicians public service, but still why should we the voters not demand both public and private moral behavior from our politicians?
Why should we demand private moral behavior form our politicians?
thankfully we have captain morality here..i'm sure you've never done anything wrong in your life..he sent pictures..OMFG ...who cares..
Bald faced lied to the press, The People and his constituents. That's the big deal.
All this could have been avoided had he simply said "yeah, I sent it, wasn't supposed to be public, but I goofed (giving more proof that he meant to IM or PM but twittered instead." I don't have much of a problem with sending the pics, no matter how intimate. BALD FACE LIE - I did not send that picture, must have been hacked.
What I have a problem with is the constant lieing.
Why should we demand private moral behavior form our politicians?
That's what Harvey has been saying/proving for years. Yet you don't care.
Moral and ethical behavior in my business and my home are one and the same. AGAIN! It's not the moral behavior of the whole thing (I frankly don't care), it's the fucking bald faced lies when anybody especially when anybody with a lick of common sense knew it was a lie.
One more harm from his bad behavior is to give Breitbart a legitimate win, which will give him a larger platform and more credibility for his next slander.
So, Clinton bald-face lied about Lewinsky, but was a damn good president. The people who impeached him ran the country into the ground when they got the reigns of power. Sounds like being foolish in personal life and lying about it does not preclude one from doing a great job for the country as a political leader.
Rep. Weiner said he was deeply ashamed and repeated 21 times that he accepted responsibility for his actions.
But he also denied he used government resources during his online sexcapades.
Not so, according to Weiss.
Speaking exclusively to RadarOnline.com, Weiss said she shared 220 messages with Rep. Weiner beginning on August 13, last year and they were often exchanged during work hours.
In an explicit exchange on March 3 -- the same day he voted on a health care bill in the U.S. House of Representatives -- Weiner bemoaned that he had to end their conversation because he was off to class.
The casino worker, who said she once worked as a Democratic campaign worker, also claimed she had steamy phone sex with Rep. Weiner -- using a Government telephone.
Said Weiss: "After a while I said to Anthony, 'Why are writing these messages when we can just speak?'
"I gave him my number and he called me from his office and we proceeded to talk dirty for at least 30 minutes.
"A few days later, I tried to call him back on that number.
"But the number wouldn't connect to his office; instead there was a recorded message that it was an outgoing U.S. Congress line only."
So, Clinton bald-face lied about Lewinsky, but was a damn good president. The people who impeached him ran the country into the ground when they got the reigns of power. Sounds like being foolish in personal life and lying about it does not preclude one from doing a great job for the country as a political leader.
Why should we demand private moral behavior from our politicians?
Why should we demand private moral behavior from our politicians?