Posted on 06/07/2013 4:06:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner's best efforts at political rehabilitation, there's just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with underage girls.
Chris Owens, the Dems' state committee member in northwest Brooklyn, called out the skeezy ex-congressman at a mayoral candidate forum. "I am outraged and disgusted by you," Owens told Weiner. "Both by what you did and by the fact that you have the arrogance to run for mayor. I want to understand how you explain to us how you used a public facility to tweet offensive material to ... minors you did not know, you then lied about it ... and now you come back."
The hubristic horn-dog bared his teeth, got "snippy" and responded by snarling defensively that he's "going to win this election and I'm going to govern this city really well."
Don't get ahead of yourself there, Tweety Boy. If more rank-and-file Democrats join Owens in focusing like a laser on Weiner's underage-girl problem instead of soft-pedaling his "past issues" as "consensual" "online dalliances," Icky-rus will fall again.
Weiner's puff-piece enablers at The New York Times have done their best to downplay the scandal's sordid pedo angle. He's just a luvin' hubby and conscientious dad who came clean about a momentary lapse in social media judgment. And he accepts responsibility, dontcha know? No crime, no foul, right?
Not quite. All the celebutante fashion photo shoots with wife Huma Abedin can't insulate Weiner from the truly trashy truth. Remember: Democratic women on Capitol Hill stood by Weiner and his Twitter tawdriness until a critical moment almost exactly two years ago this week: It was the moment news broke that among the bevy of online groupies he hit on, Weiner had communicated with at least one teenage high school student in Delaware.
Weiner had flirted with the underage girl through Twitter direct messages using a macho line about donning "cape and tights" -- a quip he had also used with an adult woman with whom he had exchanged raunchier sexually explicit messages. Conservative blogger Patrick Frey (patterico.com) first uncovered the evidence. Fox News then broke the news in the mainstream press that Delaware police had visited the girl's home and questioned her about her online communications with Weiner. The 17-year-old said she had met Weiner on a school trip to Washington.
At his watershed press conference circus on June 6, 2011, Weiner claimed he "never had an intention of having a relationship with underage women" and blustered that the girls he communicated with "weren't young, per se." Per se? Just a few days later, Weiner was forced to admit that he had exchanged "at least five private messages on Twitter" with the Delaware girl, not two messages as initially reported. He also denied that any messages to the teen were "explicit" or "indecent."
But can the serial liar be believed? Over the past several weeks as he has attempted to "move past" the past, Weiner has admitted that more creepoid photos or messages may surface. He told WNYC: "People may decide they want to come forward and say, here's another email that I got or another photo. I'm certainly not going to do that. So people may hear things that are true, they may hear things that are not true, but I'm going to try to keep being focused on issues that are important to New York City."
Silly me, but perhaps the predatory perv behavior of one of the Big Apple's leading mayoral candidates should be an issue of concern. As I pointed out when the late, great Andrew Breitbart broke Weinergate wide open two years ago, stories about Weiner's hot pursuits of young Capitol Hill interns date back to 2001. At least one young woman told liberal Vanity Fair magazine that Weiner hunted down her email address, bragged about riding on Air Force One and extended an invitation to visit his office in person.
Trolling habits die hard. And all the sex therapy in the world can't cure pathological skeeviness. The man who wants to be New York's mayor was willing to blame truth-seeker Breitbart for "hacking" into his rancid social media accounts. He was willing to mislead his lifelong Democratic pals and enlist them in his phony smear conspiracy to cover his lurid macking tracks.
This is not merely a "private matter." It's about public fitness for office. Anthony Weiner thinks he should be put back in political power because he effectively champions "middle-class" values. Middle-class New Yorkers who value decency, honesty and safe work and online environments for your young daughters, speak now or forever hold your peace.
What’s the difference between Weiner and Clinton? Seems to me their both the same. American people had a Prez that was doing things in the Oval Office that was just as bad as Weiner doing things in his home....so why _itch about one and not the other!!!!
The Sextexting is the sideshow. Real Issue:
What does he have to say about the Muslim Brotherhood?
Specifically, how will he make New York City better?
Will he stand up to the unions?
Does he support the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk and the anti-terror unit’s watching Muslim organizations?
The question on everyone’s mind about Weiner’s political comeback: can he really pull it off?
Rather Humma is nagging him. Run or go crazy.
I hear that a politician never wants to be caught with a dead girl or a live boy. So far, he’s safe...
“I’m allowed four wives under Islam. And thousands of child mistresses under DNC rules.”
ROTFLMAO
Never underestimate the stupidity of the liberal voter. These guys remind me of the martians in “Mars Attacks” that are killing everyone while running around with a translator machine saying, “We come in peace. Come out. We will not harm you.”
Democratic politicians (and the GOP establishment) have an equal contempt for the intelligence of their constituency. And to be fair, their constituency earned it.
This self-admitted brilliant, intellectual, elite genius is without sin, perfect, god-like, and worthy of the worship of all New York voters.
/s/
IMHO
Democrats don’t care about morals so weiner has nothing to worry about. I will be stunned if he doesn’t win because he’s a true democrat and the majority of dems will overlook anything and everything to get their guy elected.
The Democrat ethic is simply this: if you advocate taking money from the rich and giving it to Democrats, and if you support abortion, you have no personal rules about sex. That’s the basic transaction at the heart of the liberal universe, and the simple demand of the liberal voter: “give me money, and you can do whatever you want.”
Weiner will win. New York City does not care if he chases underage girls.
unfit for orifices, too.
I wouldn’t bet against him...not in New York
It is this simple. He has $4 million in campaign funds. Has to run to use them (and appropriate some for himself), or give them to other candidates. (His ego won’t allow the latter; not that anyone would take them.)
Only way he can get the money is to run. Once he as secreted enough away, he’ll drop out.
I hope he sticks it out and wins.
Having him as one of the major players in the Democrat party is a boon to us. He’ll never live down his past and will be the butt of continual jokes.
Besides, he’s a smarmy punk. That might play well in NYC, but it doesn’t hold up well elsewhere.
If he wins, he’ll continue to entertain delusions of his own grandeur and look to higher office - governor, president. He may be around for a long time to kick around.
Why are you surprised, look who his wife worked for. These people are psychopaths. No conscience.
That’s ok, Hillary, um, Huma, um, uh, the voters will decide who wins the office.
Our dogs, Bart P. Wiener and Oscar M. Wiener (no relation). Neither has ever used Facebook or Twitter, preferring the more traditional WeeMail.
They are adorable
Thanks. They have a great dislike for Anthony Weiner. He gives all wieners a bad name...
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