Stick a fork in Anthony Weiner - he's a waste of space

[malaise]

with serious issues.
Take your weiner and fuck off Anthony

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I'm inclined to agree, but perhaps you should elaborate. You know, close the deal. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

2. And who couldn't have predicted this when he announced he was getting back in to politics?

Is anyone surprised? At all?

[RainDog]

3. I haven't said anything about him

after he declared his new candidacy, etc.

but my honest thought was... yuck.

he may be good on policy, but he sucks as a representative of the Democratic Party. He's like a walking sleazy ego.

anyone who CHOOSES to run for political office as a representative for a particular party also needs to choose to not embarrass that same party by acting like a needy, hormonal middle schooler.

if a guy can't do that - then he should choose other work. simple as that.

he makes my skin crawl.

[southernyankeebelle]

4. We is quit from congress he said there were more txts out there. I think he should

stay in the race. His opponents new there were txts out there. You don't think that has anything to do with it? I do.

[RainDog]

5. I don't think he should've run at all

who needs his drama?

[southernyankeebelle]

8. Your entitled to your opinion and I respect that.

[geek tragedy]

6. He did this AFTER resigning from Congress.

In other words, AFTER he humiliated his wife in public with that kind of betrayal, and AFTER he was forced to resign from Congress in disgrace, he STILL trolled the Internet looking for young women to stroke his ego via sexually explicit chats.


He's FITH.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Why is it everyone wants to hold Weiner who didn't have sex with these women to the

fire yet all these other who have had sex with women and are staying or running for office. I think this is a personal issue between him and his wife and not ours. If you are going to hold him to what he did then everyoneelse should be held to the same standard. Thats all am saying. I have a feeling this was to get him out of the race. Who benefits this information getting out. Quinn does. Just makes me wonder what the real motives are.

[geek tragedy]

11. It's not about the sex, it's the fact that he can't govern his own behavior.

it's one thing for a horny pol to get caught cheating. Weiner is so reckless he's practically begging to get caught.

Moreover, Weiner's lust for ego stroking appears to be what motivates him to run for office. So, no, I will not provide that to him.

[southernyankeebelle]

23. Lets hold every cheater to the same thing.

[geek tragedy]

26. Sure. If a cheater has been forced out of Congress, and still cheats, his

issues go very deep.

[VanillaRhapsody]

29. What do you think we are Republicans?

We are not the "family values" party.....your private life is your own as far as we are concerned remember? What you do behind closed doors on your own time is not our problem unless you are a law breaker...
and unless we make sexting a crime.....I don't care what he did...

[geek tragedy]

34. This says it for me:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023323206

[southernyankeebelle]

32. your right. now let the voters decide.

[geek tragedy]

36. I am a voter in NYC nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

38. let he who is without sin cast the first stone!

[geek tragedy]

39. I'm not running for office, but I am free to take his reckless, narcissistic,

self-destructive compulsive idiocy into account when choosing who I want as my mayor.

[VanillaRhapsody]

41. well if you expect innocence in politicians...

and you are soooo innocent....if you are better....than you owe it to all of us to run in his stead!

[geek tragedy]

42. Oh please, judgment and temperament are legitimate concerns

for elective office.

Weiner has been a shallow, showboating, race-baiting backbencher for his entire career, and is motivated primarily by getting his own ego stroked moreso than any policy ideals, so why the fuck should I want him as my mayor again?

There are better options in the Democratic primary.

[VanillaRhapsody]

43. I find all politicians to have LARGE egos....holy cow...what do you think drives them?

better options for Mayor of New York?

How bout YOU geek....you seem to be above reproach. Me....I don't expect politicians to be "holier-than-me"!

[geek tragedy]

44. "Nobody's perfect" is not a reason to vote for him. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

45. its not a reason not to either....

[geek tragedy]

46. That's the beauty of democracy, every voter gets to decide

which imperfections mean a lot and which don't mean anything at all.

[VanillaRhapsody]

49. So how do you expect to find the best candidates if you dismiss them for having done

a little sexting ever in their lives? Come on....no one decent will run if every little peccadillo or innappropriate text gets them tarred and feathered.

Good F'ing grief!

[geek tragedy]

52. (A) Weiner was never amongst the best in my book and (B)

what he did was more than a little sexting, it was pathological and compulsive.

What he did was like leaving bankruptcy court and taking his next paycheck to the casino.

[Seeking Serenity]

47. I expect my elected representatives

to have at least as good judgment and impulse control as I do, if not BETTER.

If they don't, then X!

[VanillaRhapsody]

50. Then YOU should run.....you OWE it to us!

cuz YOU are such a better candidate of course!

[RainDog]

53. so his race-baiting tactics are no big deal to you?

He's more than one kind of sleazy.

[ladjf]

54. To me , it's a matter of bad judgment. Who in their right mind would continue his type of

juvenile behavior, knowing the consequences of discovery?

[VanillaRhapsody]

93. Who keeps smoking when they know it is bad for them....

its bad judgement.....should we vote for them?

[dkf]

60. What you going to do about Spitzer?

[geek tragedy]

61. Vote for his primary opponent. Spitzer's a tougher call, because

while what he did is objectively worse than what Weiner did (illegal, sex trafficking etc) at the same time he has policy gravitas that Weiner has never had and will never have. Also, he didn't get busted again after his public humiliation. So, as far as we know, he was able to regulate his behavior after losing everything he had ever wanted because of it.

[southernyankeebelle]

57. good. vote for who you want to vote for.

[geek tragedy]

58. During the primary, I'll vote for whom I want to.

In the general, I'll vote for whom I need to.

[southernyankeebelle]

68. yes,I think that is what I was trying to say. Vote for who you want. Good Luck with it.

Hope your candidate wins. I don't live in NYC. Been there and love it but I don't live there.

[geek tragedy]

72. None of them are 'my candidate'

Some are better than others.

So it goes for most elections.

[southernyankeebelle]

91. well your choice is your choice.

[southernyankeebelle]

100. It is between him and his wife. His wife is an adult well aware what he did and she stood besides

him. Again I'd vote for him.

[karynnj]

98. AND even at that point, he was still creating new ones!

If these "new" txts were BEFORE he resigned, there would be no real news. This shows that even after earlier txts led to him having to resign and humiliation, he still felt the need to do this. Do you trust he will never do it again - or is there a risk of greater embarrassment if he corresponds with someone underage or Republican.

[southernyankeebelle]

99. He is a good politician and I would vote for him. I'm hiring him to do a job that he is

well qualified for. What he does in his private life is between him and his wife. If people like Vitters who went to bed with known hookers and he still in office and can't see why we are holding Weiner to a different standard.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Can't control himself

Adrenaline/dopamine junkie. He has my sympathies, but he does need to take that long walk through the desert.

[MoonRiver]

9. Truly. This is a tweet too far.

[malaise]

14. He's on MSNBC right now

says they are texts from he said would come out.

[Segami]

20. Someone pleeeeease, pass her a fork!

[malaise]

22. +1,000

Not sure which I want to go away faster Weiner or the damned baby coverage.
Tweety is pissed...he dragged her out for this - indecency is not the right word for this.

[MoonRiver]

27. I just saw that pathetic excuse for a husband. Don't understand why she stands beside him

but that's just me.

[VanillaRhapsody]

30. Hillary did....got a problem with that?

[geek tragedy]

59. Weiner couldn't carry Bill Clinton's jock strap in terms of policy

achievements and understanding. He's more like a John Edwards.

[VanillaRhapsody]

63. avoiding the question geek?

[MoonRiver]

62. Well, I love Hillary but I probably wouldn't have stayed.

I have nothing against Huma. She seems like a beautiful and brilliant woman. I just don't get how she could share a bed and life with that pervert.

[VanillaRhapsody]

64. Do you realize HOW many women are sharing beds with much much similar "perverts" as you called it?

this is NOT at all unusual these days...you must be sheltered not to know that.

[MoonRiver]

90. Does that make it ok?

[VanillaRhapsody]

92. Should they all suffer consequences in public or by their spouses?

it is none of our business....

Remember we don't condemn you for having consensual sex with other consenting adults....that's those "other guys" that like to peek into bedrooms and physicians offices!

[MoonRiver]

95. I'm not condemning Weiner. I just wouldn't stay married to him,

or vote for him in the primary.

[VanillaRhapsody]

97. Well I need much more to disqualify him in my book than nekkid pictures...

that's his wife's business not mine. If she is okay with the situation....I will defer to her on the matter.

[MoonRiver]

96. Frankly, I did not understand it.

[malaise]

80. Maybe she wants tobe Mrs Mayor

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

12. I do like the guy, but he's a liability. nt

[flamingdem]

13. Sad to give the 5th rec

for this wreck of a guy

[Segami]

15. Big liability and pass the fork!. Should he be elected mayor..

and another sex-chat scandal breaks out while in office, those who cut him slack and supported him, must bare the responsibility.

[malaise]

17. And here's Huma supporting him at the press conference

Oh this is disgusting

[Raine]

89. I agree, sickening to these women defending and supporting men that humiliate

and publically degrade them that way.

[LittleBlue]

16. Why people keep pushing him, I'll never know

He's a bomb waiting to go off.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. He's been a scumbag since day one of his career

ran for office race-bating his opponents.

He never really was all that progressive, but being the narcissist that he was, he realized he could get on MSNBC by giving fiesty left-seeming speeches. But, like Michele Bachmann on the right, he didn't have a single legislative accomplishment to back up his big mouth.

You could see the real Weiner in the rightwing things he did, like the nasty piling on of Helen Thomas.

He's a sociopath, an egotist and was never on our side.

I take great pleasure at his second implosion.

[malaise]

19. Well the comedy guys will have a feast tonight

and for the rest of the week. Goodbye HRH Oneie!! You've just been knocked off the headlines

[RainDog]

48. Weiner won his first election by trashing African-Americans

He sent out anonymous mailers tying the other two Democrats in the primary race to Jesse Jackson and David Dinkins in an attempt to play on fears of white New Yorkers after the Crown Heights Riot.

What a great guy.

http://www.salon.com/2011/06/07/anthony_weiner_1991/

[Whisp]

21. hip hip hooray. I agree.

the pathetic fool should go crawl under a rock instead of spotlighting.

what.an.idiot.

and his wife... well maybe she does really love him or soemthing. but why did she have to do the republican supportive wife thing and humiliate herself in public beside that dong?

getting some very strange vibes from those two.

wish they would just fuck off and go away, they are stealing England's baby jesus thunder.

[malaise]

24. There is no man on this planet who could make me defend him

publicly like this. Effin' crap - what a narcissistic prick.

[Mz Pip]

69. I completely agree

If this really was no big deal like some of his defenders seem to imply then he should have been able to stop. FFS, the optics alone on this are appalling and anyone with an ounce of common sense should know there is no such thing as privacy when you're texting your junk.

This is not something that is just between him and his wife. There is the 22 year old he sent this to, as well. She may have been naive and stupid to think there was something real going on but he seemed to do his best to keep it going.

As far as the "He who is without sin..." rationalization, I seriously doubt most people with high profile ambitions engage in such stupidity. This is pretty out of the ordinary.

[Little Star]

76. Hear, hear!

[Triana]

25. This guys has issues. He's a liability. Dems don't need him.

Weiner needs to take his Weiner and get lost.

[madaboutharry]

28. That is how the democrats in congress felt about him.

When this all broke out the first time, no one defended him. His fellow democrats in congress wanted him gone. He had no friends.

[Spazito]

31. A complete disaster of a press conference....

The man is completely tone deaf in so many ways. Oversized ego and outrageous narcissism on full display by Weiner yet again.

[malaise]

71. The night time comedians are going to have a feast

and I do not have a shred of sympathy.
I hate it that ReTHUGs get away with all kind of sexual scandals but Weiner has a problem - which sane man texts his parts to strangers?

[Spazito]

73. Oh yes, he bizarrely cannot see how he continues to make himself a laughingstock...

by his own behavior. The comedians have fodder for some time to come seeing as he is going to continue his quest to be Mayor of New York.

He humiliates himself, his family and any supporters he still has, imo.

[malaise]

75. Maybe I'm just old but I don't see how sending naked pictures of oneself

isn't a sign of a problem.

[Spazito]

84. Well, in Weiner's case, it certainly is a problem...

a definite lack of control issue, at the very least. As to sending naked pictures of oneself to complete strangers, someone you 'know' only through texting, well, it is risky behavior, especially for someone who aspires to be elected to positions like Mayor, Congressman, etc.

Sexting is apparently the 'new' thing for more than a few. Not my thing that's for sure.

[Cha]

33. I haven't been keeping up with Anthony Weiner..

the last I knew.. I thought he had regretted his actions and was on a new path.

Apparently not.

Never mind.. I just read what he did for 6 months after he left Congress.

[Nye Bevan]

35. Don't be so "hard on" him (nt)

[TheKentuckian]

37. Since I can't vote for him, I better send money.

I don't give even the hardest and most tiny little pebble of a shit about any of this moral majority nonsense.

I'm not his god and I'm not his wife so if you want me to care, it had better be about bad policy.

[VanillaRhapsody]

40. agreed.....

why do we want to crawl into bed with the Wieners? This is their business....do people actually think most politicians are saints and never do sexual things like the rest of us? If all you who are dismissing Wiener for this trangression....and YOU are so innocent...why don't you run for office?

[cali]

82. the guy has less impulse control and judgment than my dog

beyond that, he's a race baiting, Palestinian hating guy.

[TheKentuckian]

102. The judgment of the political class is far more compromised than this nonsense

Just on what is allowed to happen to the water supply alone eclipses this by so many orders of magnitude that it would take a super computer to figure out the math.

I'll have to see what you're concerned about on the Palestinian issue since I've never heard anything particularly beyond the pale on Jewish politician scale but I am open to being enlightened.

[corkhead]

51. Maybe if the repubicons held their own this high standard, I would agree.

I think an imperfect Dem is still better than anything the right has to offer.

[ecstatic]

55. I feel so sorry for his wife

It's not the sexting that I'm judging, it's his stunning lack of self control that I'm disgusted by.

[VanillaRhapsody]

65. so any guy who actually DOES commit adultery by this standard should what be arrested?

your bar for what is disgusting is pretty low...

[Mz Pip]

70. Who said anything about being arrested? n/t

[VanillaRhapsody]

74. so you want saints for politicians...no sinners allowed?

[Mz Pip]

81. You sure like to throw strawmen around n/t

[ecstatic]

85. Lying to a spouse is disgusting

But that's just my opinion. At no point did I mention arrests, etc.

[anneboleyn]

79. She looked so very humiliated. It was depressing.

And he clearly has some very serious issues as far as impulsive behavior is concerned (since all of this happened after his resignation from congress and his first "confession&quot . I think the apparently total lack of impulse control is the worrying issue. I don't care about the "moral" issue (although I do feel bad for his wife who from all accounts is a lovely woman) but his impulsivity and recklessly compulsive behavior seems to be a problem since a politician is in the spotlight. Seriously, sending nude selffies to strangers via Facebook and Twitter and so on is just a bad idea.

[ecstatic]

86. exactly! nt

[KG]

56. this is a guy that obviously just doesn't get it.

[VanillaRhapsody]

66. why do we care what he does with nekkid pictures?

I mean come on...what is DU full of prudes now?

[cali]

83. no it's not. are really so blind that you don't get the

issues here?

Never mind, that was rhetorical.

[VanillaRhapsody]

67. people act like he is some kind of pedophile....sheesh.

[forestpath]

77. I agree - he's disgusting.

[babylonsister]

78. Agree. His lying 'with a straight face' is what gets me, or what I

perceive as his lying. For me, once burned, twice shy, to coin a phrase.

[madokie]

87. I have to agree with you

pretty sleazy jackass if you ask me.
If he was single that would be one thing but he isn't

[LittleBlue]

88. Does this guy have lewd photos of DLC leadership?

I can't for the life of me figure out how he limps on, anyone else would be political toast by now.

He's a pervert who cannot control himself.

[Cleita]

94. Yep, and if I were Huma I think I'd cut my losses

and pack his bags after making a hotel reservation for him.

[Aerows]

101. If I was in NYC

I wouldn't vote for him, because he's continued to do this despite the consequences before. I'd be wary about what would happen once he was in office, and would assume that the behavior would continue and he'd be forced to resign as Mayor.

The man has some issues, and they make him unsuitable to hold public office until he addresses them and stops doing things that leave him wide open to political attack.