TheWeiner Bows Out, With A Campaign Speech, Naturally/Larry Flint Offers The Weiner His Next Job

OldSouth should know better than to be surprised by people like TheWeiner, really. But, upon viewing his resignation statement, he was taken aback at LittleAnthony's continuing hubris.


(Clink on the link to hear the entire address--CNN posted it all. ABC edited out the campaign speech bits. They're protecting their boy to the bitter end. Shame on them.)

This ole' boy made a speech that sounded like he's running for the next office! Damn, ya'll! That requires real stones!

Or perhaps it requires such a complete state of blindness and deafness that it simply doesn't occur to him that this just might not be the tone to take...

So, off he goes to treatment (or so he announced earlier) his conscience still unpricked by the damage done (sorry...), his wife not at his side for TheBigAnnounce (Her lawyers are going over the family books now. She may not divorce him outright, but within a week or two, she'll own everything except the clothes on his back...including his camera-phone.) If he goes away, his world will be different when he returns, in any event.

But, then again, things are looking up, as he has a bright and rising future ahead of him, working for Larry Flynt.

OS has no proof, no way of knowing whether his suspicions are true or no, he just has his experience of life and a bit of a cynical edge. He suspects that Weiner may have done a Spiro Agnew on Nancy Pelosi and Obama, i.e., 'Here's the number you need to meet, in dollars, to make me go away and not publish what I know about you. Here's the number you need to meet to make sure all those notes from the caucuses, meetings, deal-making dinners, all those slimy stories and supporting docs, don't end up in the hands of Fox News, the RNC, John Boehner's office, or on WikiLeaks. Or all of the above, in a slow death-drip sort of release.'

With the funds safely tucked away in the Caymans, safe from the gaze of the media or his wife's lawyers and accountants, TheWeiner was (with a few Xanax to keep the voice steady) able to stand tall and make his final campaign speech.

For now.

In six months or less, expect TheRehabilitationOfLittleAnthony to begin. Just in time for 2012.

Pastor Peters Supplies The Closing Soliloquy For Weinergate: 'The first casualty of our vanity is usually our conscience.'

His entire thoughts are here, and well worth the time spent to read and consider.

Amongst the best moments of the essay is this one, a form of elegaic postlude to the disaster that Anthony Weiner made of his life.

You're so vain... she sang. I am so vain... The world is so vain... Our vanity is not a simple affront to God but our ultimate undoing. Only rightly ordered relationships can begin to hold this vanity in check... parent and child, husband and wife, citizen and neighbor. . . creature to Creator. Christ did not come to do away with these relationships or to set us from from their limitations but to restore to us the right relationship which sin had stolen from us. For it is only in light of these relationships that we know who we are. Sin steals away this identity. Rep. Weiner, Gov. Terminator, Sen./former Presidental Candidate Edwards.... not only forgot who they were but lost their identity in a sea of mirrors which inflated their egos and deflated their wisdom. In the end, we found out that they were not exceptional, like they wanted us to believe, but so full of themselves they thought they were above the Law (God's). The first casualty of our vanity is usually our conscience. The only treatment for this is Law and Gospel. The only medicine is grace. The only therapy is death and resurrection through the waters of baptism (and its daily dying and rising).

OS hopes his readers take time to read, and share with their friends and loved ones.

Rep. Anthony Weiner Weeps In Public For Being Exposed As Perv And Serial Liar

This is the contrite Anthony Weiner, weeping for the cameras because he got caught being a creep, and lying repeatedly about it.

He's sooooooo sorry about it all, but of course, there's no thought of resignation. That's what Republicans do when they get caught doing creepy behavior. The rules are different for the Left; for the Barney Franks, Bill Clintons, John Edwards(what if he had been elected President or Vice-President? Does anyone ever ponder that quandry? At least, Spiro Agnew resigned over his previous sins.)

Then there's AlGore... And let us not forget Teddy Kennedy, or John Kennedy, for that matter. The rules are different for the Left.

So, out of curiosity, OS decided to stroll down memory lane, to view TheWeiner in action, TheWeiner unplugged. TheRealWeiner, with his Weinerness on display for all to enjoy. Lil' Anthony, treating us to The Full Weiner.

Here's TheWeiner going postal in frustration because the GOP controls the House, and won't let themselves be rolled on a spending bill:



Ahh, the joys of adult conversation on the floor of the House!

And another, in which TheWeiner burns up two minutes of floor time to ridicule the majority for having the obvious wisdom of attemtping to put National Palestinian Radio out of our misery.



Ever wonder how much money we burn per minute when the House is in session?
What a guy!

And here's the best bit of all: Anthony Weiner, Champion Of Women's Interests. Stay with this one through about 1:25 if you can, where he asserts that 'Some rape is more desirable in the eyes of the sponsor than others'...It gets, well, randier and more insulting after that.



WeinerGate should really come as no surprise--the posting of a picture of his Weinerness in a state of arousal to a woman with whom he is flirting is really par for the course for any person with this level of arrogance and total absence of basic judgement. The common thread isn't the perv sex, or even the Leftist politics (Republicans get randy, too...Terry Sanford playing hooky in Argentina with his mistress does come to mind.)

It's the sheer arrogance, the utter lack of judicious consideration of possible consequences of behaviour, the folly, the stupidity. It's what one would expect of Billy-Bob living in his trailor in the back parts of Bedford County, cooking meth and impregnating his second cousins. Billy-Bob creates a lot of chaos, but it's usually localized. These people pass laws, impose taxes, start wars, put the country into impossible levels of debt, and eviscerate anyone who dare raise a hand in objection.

TheWeiner won't resign. Weiners like him never do. MizNancy had her legal eagles write out his faux-apology, and ordered him to make the contrition look convincing. He certainly did not step to that podium willingly. He had to do it now, lest the question continue to arise in 2012, stiffening the resolve of his opposition, arousing curiosity, emboldening the press to repeatedly raise probing questions. Sorry, just couldn't resist....

He should resign, though. Were he a Mensch, and not TheWeiner, he would resign, and stand for election for his seat again, either in the by-election, or in the 2012 general election. (Who knows, he might find himself contesting for the seat with a woman in opposition. Now, wouldn't that be interesting! He doesn't care to find out.)

But, he won't. He'll get away with it, in the end, because he can.

Because the rules are different for the Left. And Weiners.