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Part of me thinks they were hoping to find something that would take the focus off Anthony Weiner<\/a>.\u00a0 A year or so ago, he was a rising super star in the Democratic Left.\u00a0 Willing to say up yours, shut up, you hate the sick, and just about anything else to the Republicans, even while standing next to them in an interview, he was the darling of Left wing media, blogs, and politicians.\u00a0 So it had to come as quite a blow to find out that he has been doing some of the dirty thing when it comes to keeping his pants zipped.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

At first, he denied it, and the press dutifully followed his lead, either focusing on hacking, or emphasizing the myriad other sex scandals in history.\u00a0 Since he admitted he has been doing the naughty thing with women he doesn\u2019t happen to be married to, at least electronically, the MSM has rushed out to spin it again, wondering if such things should really force a man to resign.\u00a0 After all, during the Clinton sex\/perjury scandal, we were told that such things as sex, sexual misconduct (can there be any such thing in our modern culture?), lying, character, truth, values, morals, no longer mattered.\u00a0 Certainly that should still apply.<\/p>\n

According to at least one poll of his constituents, most don\u2019t care either.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019ve reached a time where such things really don\u2019t matter.\u00a0 We truly have bought into the notion that what a person is individually has no bearing on what they are publicly or corporately.\u00a0\u00a0We reject the notion that if a man treats his own family this way, he might treat others (like us voters) the same way.\u00a0 Or we just imagine that all have sinned, there is none who\u00a0are righteous, no not one\u2026so who cares?\u00a0 Apparently some, as a growing list of Democrats are begging for him to leave, though that could be less because of some lofty moral standard and more because he is taking away the steam they were building by convincing Americans that the GOP wants to end Medicare and kill senior citizens.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I dunno.\u00a0 I\u2019m only spending about three ounces of care when it comes to this story, as he never impressed me anyway.\u00a0 He came off as boorish and rude, and his denials, lies, victimization, and whining\u00a0have done nothing to change my opinion.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"