So let's assume that men cheating on their wives is normal, for all that is frowned upon. FDR apparently had a mistress, JFK had several, as did Clinton. The thing was, up until Clinton, the press corps was on the President's side and they hushed up his indiscretions. But ever since Clinton, politicians must know that that is no longer the case. Whether it's the National Enquirer or some other rag of that ilk, or an actual "mainstream media" paper, politicians are being scrutinized like never before, and if they do something either illegal or indiscreet, someone is going to see and either blackmail them or spread the news over the front pages.
So why do they risk their careers by indulging in this kind of behavior?
According to Politico columnists Roger Simon and Mark Halperin, it's not that they're just dumb, it's that their smart.
ROSE: I've asked Eliot Spitzer and he said there's something about sort of the ego of being in politics, et cetera, et cetera.
SIMON: It's the very intelligence of these men like Spitzer, like Weiner -- how bright they are, how quick they are, uh, how successful they are -- that gives them a sense of invulnerability, that nothing bad could really happen to them because nothing bad ever has.
HALPERIN: You won't meet any smarter people in politics than those two guys. Just won't.
RUSH: Spitzer and Weiner, Mark Halperin: "You won't meet any smarter people in politics than those two guys." I told my wife, I told her yesterday: "You wait and see how this is spun. Before it's all said and done we're gonna get stories about this is so typical of type A guys, powerful men who do great things. One woman's not enough! They have to spread their seed all over the place, make sure that there are countless others that are born in their image. We're gonna get stories about how this is an attribute, a personality attribute, a great characteristic. Just like in the mid-nineties how telling lies was actually helpful 'cause it spared people hurt feelings and all this."
These people make me right so many times a week that I lose count. They're so smart! They're smarter than the rest of us. They are allowed to do this because they are so smart. They are a cut above -- and here's Mark Halperin saying you won't find a couple of smarter guys than Spitzer and Weiner. Why...? Why in the world go talk to Spitzer about this in the first place? What's Spitzer doing commenting on it? Yeah, in fact, folks, let's putt this way: This is what they want us to believe. "Weiner? Spitzer? Epitome of brilliance, intelligence that is a cut above!" So if some blithering idiot had done the same thing, I guess we would have to believe that it was a flash of brilliance to send a picture of yourself in your underwear via Twitter to some babe would have been a flash of brilliance -- 'cause these are the smartest guys in politics you'll ever find.
You'd think if they were so smart, they'd get vasectomies or wear condoms to insure they didn't impregnate any of their girlfriends(something Schwarzenegger should have considered), would not Twitter at all, and would certainly not have more than one girlfriend at a time (okay, that's mostly Tiger Woods, but I expect there are a few politicians juggling several women right this second!
As I posted yesterday, should a politician have to resign because he indulged in sex games with another consenting adult? No. It's the fact that they lie about it, and keep on lying, that shows that they lack moral fiber. It's because Wiener lied that he should either resign or be fired.
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