WEINER & SPITZER - NOW MORE THAN EVER!

People unfamiliar with New York City politics may not realize that it is theoretically possible (and was, prior to last week, quite likely) that Beavis and Butthead Weiner and Spitzer would be part of the same Democrat ticket.  I've borrowed the headline from a recent Pat Buchanan column because it's hilarious.  His point is that far from being some sort of weird outliers, Carlos Danger and Client No. 9 Weiner and Spitzer are actually part of the liberal mainstream.

But the front-runner in the New York mayor's race today quit Congress as a serial texter of lewd photos to anonymous women. The front-runner in the city comptroller's race was "Client No. 9" in the prostitution ring of the convicted madam who is running against him.

Weiner's strongest challenger for mayor is a lesbian about to marry another lesbian. The sitting mayor and governor are divorced and living with women not their wives. The former mayor's second wife had to go to court to stop his girlfriend from showing up at Gracie Mansion.

Weiner looks like a mainstream liberal.

On cable channels we hear cries that Weiner is "mentally sick." Ex-colleague Rep. Jerrold Nadler says Weiner needs "psychiatric help."

Whoa, Jerry. Up to 1973, the American Psychiatric Association said homosexuality was a mental disorder. The APA now regrets that. And why is Weiner's private sexting a sign of mental illness, when kids all over America are engaged in the same thing every day?

Are we, possibly, a mentally and morally sick society?

"There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."

Pot, meet kettle: Spitzer says Weiner should not be mayor after latest sex scandal http://t.co/lKHqfnrUBJ pic.twitter.com/KIYzYyJz95
— New York Post (@nypost) July 30, 2013