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Sunday, June 19. 2011
The End of Weiner and Other News
All of that drama at the Playboy Mansion was overshadowed by a bigger news story. Bigger even than the Republican debate and the subsequent fall out.This is interesting. Apparently I wasn’t the only person who thought Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann won that debate. Nearly every commentator on TV thought so as well. In fact, Chris Matthews thinks she has a very good chance of winning the nomination. Mit Romney, whom everyone agrees is about the only candidate who can beat President Obama in a general election, has one big, glaring problem: he’s a phony. Everyone sees it, everyone knows it, including Republican primary voters.
Bachmann, on the other hand, has the gift shared by paranoid schizophrenics and delusional zealots alike: she truly believes what she says. Not only that, since first making a fool of herself on national TV, she — unlike Sarah Palin — has done her homework. Michele Bachmann is a genuine Teabagger and she’s not afraid to say what she means into a microphone.
Unlike Tim Pawlenty, who couldn’t look Romney in the eye and criticize him for the Massachusetts health care plan, “Obamneycare.” Besides exposing himself as a phony, Pawlenty showed his true nature: he’s a pussy. He should get out of the race now and save he and his few followers the time and what little money they have left.
This is what really sold Bachmann to the Republican primary voters: when she said she has like a gazillion foster children, plus five of her own, people just loved her obvious and genuine compassion for the less fortunate. Add that to all her extreme views on the usual conservative wedge issues, god, guns, gays — and abortion — not to mention her extreme views on everything else, and Michele Bachmann emerges as the Republican front runner.That debate in New Hampshire will not only win her the Iowa Caucuses, but I’ll bet she wins the New Hampshire primary as well, Mit Romney’s backyard.
The only bump in that road would be the emergence of another kook, someone like that fat boy from New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie, or that cowboy savant from Texas, Governor Rick Perry. Seriously, how does one vote for a guy to be president who once suggested his state secede from the Union?
If either of those two Republican governors gets in the race Bachmann will have a serious challenge. Barring that — or a serious faux pas or scandal — it’s hard to see any of the other seven candidates winning the nomination.
For the longest time people referred to Bachmann as “Palin-lite.” Well, people will have to start referring to Palin and “Bachmann-lite.”
The half term governor won’t be giving up her multi-million dollar lifestyle any time soon. She has a sweet deal. Just found this out not too long ago: she has her SarahPac, which collects millions of dollars from the wealthy elite who support the Republican Party. She doles out a bit of it now and then to political candidates around the country, but, she can keep the rest of it for herself and use it as she pleases. Like to buy a home in Arizona! As long as she doesn’t declare herself a political candidate for anything, that money is hers! How effin’ cool is that!
So, if she were to get into the presidential race now, she would lose access to all that money, except for political purposes. And the laws are fairly specific about what qualifies as political activity. Her bus trip in May might have qualified; she kept dogging Romney, upstaging him at every opportunity, especially on the day he officially announced his candidacy.
None of that was the BIG news last week. No!
Oh of course we’re talking Weiner. New York Congressman — oops, now former New York Congressman — Anthony Weiner. He resigned Thursday, giving in to the full court press from the members of his own party.
That is why the Democratic Party will never be the force it was for so many decades: they eat their own. You don’t see the hypocritical Republicans calling for the resignations of their members when they get caught in sex scandals. Hell no! Not even if the person is arrested, as Senator Larry Craig was after soliciting sex from an undercover sheriff’s deputy in a Twin Cities Airport men’s room. The Idaho Republican served out his term.Governor Mark Sanford served out his term as governor of South Carolina after it was revealed he was flying off to Argentina to be with his girlfriend — despite having a wife and kids. Gave new meaning to hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Then there’s Nevada’s Republican Senator John Ensign. Never heard any Republicans demanding he resign after he admitted to having an affair with a staffer who was also married — to another of Ensign’s staffers. This all first came to light in 2007.
He did resign though, in April of this year, when an investigation revealed he broke various campaign laws trying to cover up the whole sordid affair in order to prevent the Senate ethics committee from making details of his affair public. It all might become public anyway because the F.B.I. is investigating to see what, if any, laws were broken.
Now we come to David Vitter, the Louisiana Senator who admitted to breaking local laws when he hired prostitutes from the “DC Madame.” That was just about four years ago, July of 2007. People made a big deal about how his wife stood next to him, sharing the humiliation as he explained and apologized for his actions with prostitutes. But no one in the Republican Party publicly called for his resignation and Vitter still serves in the U.S. Senate.
The point is, there are a lot of Republicans and conservatives dancing on Anthony Wiener’s political grave, making all the salacious jokes one can make with Wiener’s name and none of them will denounce their Republican colleagues who have been involved in sexual scandals. And none have demanded David Vitter resign. Not one.Anthony Weiner shouldn’t have resigned. he didn’t break any laws, didn’t even get his dick wet in some other woman! He just “sexted” and tweeted naughty talk and pictures of his dick to women he had never met. He cheated on his wife to be sure, but not like the afore-mentioned Republicans. Even Republican commentator Pat Buchanan was sticking up for Weiner, but the guy has few friends in the Democratic Caucus. Still, his party, the Democrats, screwed him. They should have stood behind him. Chastise him royally in private, take away some prized committee assignments maybe, but not force him out of Congress. This is why they may never gain control of the House of Representatives any time soon. They have no backbone or discipline when it comes to partisan politics.
If you’re a conservative having fun at the expense of Anthony Weiner and were demanding he resign, then you are a hypocrite. Weiner should have pushed back against his party leadership and told his Republican critics to go fuck themselves.
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