Man-Rule: Don't be Anthony Weiner

Here at the Man Rules, we honestly try our best not to go after the low-hanging fruit. When stupid people do stupid things that are easily mocked, we try not to dwell on that, because everybody else is usually doing the same thing, and we pride ourselves on being a little different. Not BETTER - Lord no. Just different.

But I just can't sit back and let this Anthony Weiner thing pass me by.

Anthony Weiner, as you may remember, was a U.S. Congressman from New York who resigned in 2011 because of a "sexting" scandal. Sexting, in case you don't know, is when you talk dirty to other people via text, and sometimes send naughty photos of yourself.

Yeah. I don't get it either.

Anyway, everybody and their uncle had a field day with the story at the time. The fact that the man's name is Weiner didn't go unnoticed. A lot of the texts and naked photos of himself he'd sent to other women were made public, and he took a beating in the polls. (Sorry. These things just write themselves sometimes.) He dropped out of public view, with both he and his wife (who was six month pregnant at the time) pledging to work on their marriage and restore their family.

A couple of months ago, Weiner tore himself away from his computer to emerge into the light of day once again, this time as a candidate for mayor of New York City.

Now, you may not be aware of this, but New York City is pretty big, and being the mayor there is an important job. It's not like my hometown of Childersburg, Alabama, where until recently the mayor also had a side job that actually paid the bills for his family. If memory serves, one of our mayors when I was growing up also ran a funeral home.

Anyway, Weiner was running for mayor, and many folks thought he had a good chance to win. And just this week, a story broke that he'd been sexting somebody all over again in 2012. And - this may be the best part - he used the name "Carlos Danger" as his online pseudonym. I am not making this up.

This raises several questions:

• Seriously?

Okay, pretty much that one question covers everything. Naturally, the pundits are once again enjoying themselves waaaay too much with this. To wit:

• "Nice to see a politician stand tall and proud."
• "Figures he'd hold his press conference on July 25 - National Hot Dog Day."
• "If he wins, will he be the Oscar Mayor Weiner?"

So now Anthony Weiner (whose name can be rearranged to spell "Win A Horny Teen") is facing the same problems all over again. And he's not the only ex-politician with a sex-scandal-marred past running for office in New York City - Eliot Spitzer, who used to be the governor of New York until he lost his job for canoodling with a prostitute, is running for comptroller. Apparently if you have a sex scandal in your past, it's part of your rehabilitation to become a public servant in New York.

I say these two guys should leave the poor citizens of New York alone, and go someplace else if they want to be politicians. Maybe Germany. They could team up and run on the Weiner-Spitzer ticket there.

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