Lee resigned to avoid the hell that Weiner is going through now

[K8-EEE]

He was not FORCED to resign by anybody. I just wanted to make that clarification.

I'm really disappointed that Weiner was this stupid in his personal life, knowing he has people out to get him. But he should have shut up from the get go or admitted it from the getgo.

[Poll_Blind]

1. IMO, Lee resigned to prevent the rest of the iceburg from coming out of the water.

PB

[Imajika]

5. Exactly right...

Still, if Weiner were a Republican, all of DU would be howling that he should resign for lying to...well...pretty much everyone.

I personally think these stories are stupid, but the hypocrisy on both sides when these things happen is simply astounding.

[Poll_Blind]

6. He didn't even meet these people in real life. Never met 'em, much less had any sexual contact.

I perfectly understand where your viewpoint comes from and I can't say I really disagree all that much or strongly with what you said.

PB

[KittyWampus]

9. Well, the fact is Weiner is a Democrat fighting for our benefit. He's not a hypocritical holier than

thou Republican.

And I know quite well you, among too many other DU'ers, preferred to take Breitbart's word from the very beginning. The fact is, for all YOU knew it could have been a hack. And yet you preferred to take a fucking scumbug's word for it.

Says a lot about you.
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[Imajika]

12. Huh?

"And I know quite well you, among too many other DU'ers, preferred to take Breitbart's word from the very beginning. The fact is, for all YOU knew it could have been a hack. And yet you preferred to take a fucking scumbug's word for it."

What are you talking about? I think I maybe commented a couple of times total on this stupid story, and only to say it was obvious Weiner was lying in his round robin press conferences last week - and I was completely correct. He was obviously evasive and hiding something. From the beginning he couldn't deny the picture was him, did not refer the supposed "hack" to the authorities, and basically didn't act like a guy who had really been "pranked".

"Says a lot about you."

Let me get this straight. In your world, the people who believed Weiner was lying from the beginning because of the way he handled the situation (NOT because of anything Breitbart had to say) are somehow in the wrong? Are you effing kidding? It was so obvious Weiner was lying it had become a national media joke. I'm sorry you are so gullible that you fell for it, but that isn't my fault. Maybe you should just stop being so naive.

I don't give a crap if Weiner sent a photo to some consenting adult or not, that is between he and his family. Unfortunately, much of the public and the media DO care about this stuff. If Weiner had just said "you got me, I did send the photo, I shouldn't have, my wife is pissed, I don't have much more to say", I'd have been more than fine with that. The problem is he went around OBVIOUSLY lying. The fact that he has a (D) by his name hurts us. The fact that his scandal is eating up the oxygen we wanted to use to point out Republicans are trying to kill Medicare hurts us. For the moment, Weiner has become a liability and it did not have to be this way if he had just been honest from the beginning.

[emilyg]

2. He's responsible for the hell.

[Renew Deal]

3. Lee was also actively looking for dates.

Apparently Wiener wasn't.

[devilgrrl]

4. Hell like soliciting a transvestite prostitute?

eom

[damntexdem]

7. Ultimately, it may be more of a heck that Weiner goes through.

But, as always, it's the unsuccessful coverup that really causes the trouble.

[Horse with no Name]

8. NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT to ask someone about their personal sex life

NOBODY. That is NOT okay. That is the ONLY "wrongdoing" here.

[Cleita]

10. Hmm, my tin foil hat tells me he resigned because

he has a lot more to hide that could have come out in public if he hadn't resigned. I think with Weiner, this is the extent of the scandal so it's pretty much over.

[bullwinkle428]

11. Lee had additional contacts with others that happened to fall

into the "T" category of GLBT, and his wealthy father forced him to resign before all of that blew up big-time in the beltway media. My mom lives in that district, and found out lots of dirt through the local media...