Reply #9: New Rules... [View All]

[TrollBuster9090]

We need to stop making sex "scandals" the achilles heel of some of our best politicians.

1. If you're a family values hypocrite whose election hinged on your claiming to be more moral than your opponent, you do have to resign over a sex scandal.
2. If you didn't claim your sexual morals were superior to those of your political opponents, you don't.
3. Morality extends to more than just sexual behavior. So, if you're a progressive who claims (rightly) that it's immoral to exploit or take advantage of people, economically or otherwise, and it comes to light that you own shares in a sweatshop textile company that has ten year old kids making basketball shoes in Bangladesh for a dime a day, yes you have to resign.

Bottom line for me personally: if you stop feeding the pigeons they'll go away. If you stop feeding the tabloid media machine it will go away. If you stop demanding that politicians, who never made a fuss about having superior sexual morals to their opponents resign over sex scandals we'll probably end up getting better government leaders and better policies. So, while I agree with Papantonio that Weiner is not indispensable, and could easily be replaced by somebody who's even better, I've decided to make a stand on this for the sake of getting better government in the long run.