Congressman WeenerTweeter is a despicable scumbag. Not for his sexual deviancy, but for the betrayal of his wife's trust, and for using his fame to get his rocks off.
Also of note, the fall of this liberal loudmouth shows that if you scratch the surface of a bully and push him to the wall, there is a simpering coward underneath.
I heard someone observe that this is the first politician who got in trouble for having a love affair with himself spill out into the open, which is true. If you're having sex with a computer, you're infatuated with yourself. Everyone else is just a prop or an audience.
I am not writing this to pile on or celebrate the astonishingly rapid descent of yet another overinflated DC ego.
I am pushing back against the notion that sexting is not cheating. It is. It is a breach of trust. When you take those vows, you swear to forsake all others and put your spouse first in your life, ahead of even the flesh and blood that spawned and raised you. Sharing intimacies with others is a fundamental violation of those vows.
Weiner blew it, and he did it publicly, striking another blow against traditional morality. He's a disgusting pig and he needs to get off the public stage and move on to a cable TV show like Client #9 and other unrepentant moral reprobates.
I heard someone on the radio chalk this up to fame, easy access, high testosterone, and the overabundance of hubris that almost always accompanies a national politician. I get it, but we're not animals who's reactions are determined by instinct. Between stimulus and response is a thinking, reasoning brain. People who brazenly act like instinct-drive baboons do not belong in pubic office.
Anthony Weiner has polluted the public square, and his refusal to retreat from it just reinforces how shameless and arrogant he really is. When news of a certain person comes on the radio or TV and you have to change the station to protect the innocence of your children, that's a sure sign that said person no longer belongs in our government.
