The Weiner Confessions: it Continued After Resignation: Huma Forgives Him

     If his wife 'loves him and forgives him'why can't we at least forget this and vote for him? I continue to see this candidacy as almost made for Hollywood-to elect this guy as Mayor of New York after all this-I say you have to do it New York. Like Sinatra said, it's up to you. I had no sooner finished my last post on Weiner-he really just has the worst name for this-when it emerged that, yes he did continue to 'sin' after resigning from Congress-'sin' being sending pictures over Twitter. 

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/07/anthony-weiner-and-kenneth-cuccienlli.html

     I know these revelations will be used to say that his candidacy should be ruled out on its face now, but c'mon America. We-and Hillary Clinton-forgave Bill; and he at least had real sex. To be sure, this gets confusing as he had insisted that 'oral sex isn't sex' which seems strange; now we have Virginia Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Cuccinelli recently wanting to make oral sex illegal again. 

     "New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner on Tuesday apologized for new allegations of sexually explicit chats between him and a 22-year-old woman, acknowledging that some of the exchanges, published by the gossip site TheDirty.com, occurred after his resignation from Congress."

    "Some of these things happened before my resignation, some of them happened after, but the fact is that that was also the time that my wife and I were working through some things in our marriage," Weiner said at a press conference in New York. "I'm glad these things are behind us. I know that this was a very public thing that we had happen to us. But by no means does it change the fundamentals of my feelings here, and that is that I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. I hope they're willing to still continue to give me a second chance."

"This is entirely behind me," he added.

     http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/anthony-weiner-apologizes-this-is-entirely-behind-me?ref=fpa

     Can we believe this? I don't really care. Whether it's true or not, this is just a really compelling candidacy. We always say that America loves redemption, it loves comeback stories. I'll tell you what: if only I lived in NYC-rather than here on Long Island-I know who'd get my vote. 

     If nothing else, do it for the movie. Can't you see it now? At this press conference his wife stands behind him and says she forgives him and loves him. We get to vote for Mayor every few years but this affords us something else: a chance to vote for Anthony Weiner. How can you turn this down?

     "Anthony has made some horrible mistakes, both before he resigned from Congress and after," Abedin said after her husband spoke at a press conference. "But I do strongly believe that that is between us and our marriage. We discussed all of this before Anthony decided to run for mayor."

"I love him, I have forgiven in him, I believe in him and, as we have said since the beginning, we are moving forward," she added.

     Again, think of it this way: who's creepier-Weiner or Cuccinelli? 

     C'mon, NYC: let's put some mud in their eye and tell them you're still going to vote for this guy-just like the more the GOP went after Clinton over Monica Lewinsky, the more popular he got. Show them that it's not just the President, we too have evolved.