“UNHAND ME, YOU FIEND!”

6/9/11

In a further expansion of the tight spot Representative Anthony Weiner put himself, or would like to put himself, in (See my 6/7/11 post, “….’CUZ IF I WERE (A CONGRESSMAN NAMED) WEINER, EVERYONE (MUST) BE IN LOVE WITH ME!”), one of his spokeswomen (Emphasis mine) delivered a statement that included the following: (Wall Street Journal, 6/9/11, page A4)

“To reiterate, (Congressman Weiner) has never met any of these women or had physical contact with them.”

So this is the married Congressman Weiner’s defense, to wit, he has never met any of the women with whom he fantasized about engaging in perhaps the most intimate of human experiences. Yes, he, er, entertains himself by discussing in great detail with women other than his wife the things he would like to do to them (or, in at least one instance, what he would like her to do to him), but it’s not so bad because, after all, these women are strangers and he is a do-it-yourself kind of guy.

This is America and Congressman Weiner and other consenting adults (Whether some of his handy helpmates were indeed consenting has now become an issue, but let’s leave that one alone for now.) have, or ought to have, the right to do most whatever they please as long as they don’t do damage to others. But, as voters, we also have the right to consider Congressman Weiner’s idea of relatively harmless fun sufficiently strange that we don’t want someone with such a perverted set of values representing us.