Spitzer: Weiner shouldn’t be mayor

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Washington Post

After previously declining to cast judgment on Anthony Weiner’s foibles, Eliot Spitzer said Monday that Weiner should not be mayor of New York City.

During an interview with MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” Spitzer declined to say who he was going to vote for in the mayor’s race, which is up the ballot from his comptroller’s contest.

Eventually, Matthews asked him if he thought Weiner should not be mayor.

“That is correct,” Spitzer relented.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/29/spitzer-weiner-shouldnt-be-mayor/

[dkf]

1. Oh boy...tossed under the bus by the guy who was hiring prostitutes.

That's sad.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. By the PROSECUTOR who was hiring prostitutes...

[AAO]

13. Yes, BUT, he never took pictures!

[AtheistCrusader]

3. You know what, fuck this.

I don't care what his proclivities are. Has he ever used his position to gain favors or do anything unethical, yes or no?

If no, fuck it, I don't care who he wants to text or pic or even sleep with. I don't give a shit. That's between him and his wife, and no one else. Do not care.

Spitzer, on the other hand, his fucking JOB was to prosecute people breaking the law, while he himself was breaking the law. He should have the sense to keep his fucking mouth shut at least.

[alp227]

5. Weiner has failed to correct his behavior.

He's approaching psychopath territory what he's done after resigning Congress. He oughta be persona non grata in politics.

[nytemare]

12. It saddens me so, but yes.

The guy has so much potential, so much passion. To just keep doing this stupid crap, and just not really care about it, knowing what's at risk just floors me.

[Renew Deal]

9. He used campaign cash to find the hacker even though he knew there was no hacker

That's pretty unethical. That's aside from sending crotch shots to college girls while his pregnant wife sat at home.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

16. He promised a job and house to his phone sex partner

Not exactly what I'd call a model for how cities should hire.

[ancianita]

17. THANK YOU! FUCK THESE PEOPLE! WEINER HAS BEEN A GREAT REP IN CONGRESS.

[Major Hogwash]

22. If it weren't for Weiner, the firefighters in New York would not have gotten health benefits!!

It's surprising how quickly everyone here conveniently forgets his righteous rant on the floor of the House against the Republicans in the House of Representatives who weren't going to pass the bill paying for health benefits for those firefighters who suffered from working in New York City in the weeks after the attacks in September 2001!!!

[truebluegreen]

6. Let the voters decide how much they care.

Everybody else--puritans, hypocrites, whoever--needs to STFU.

[christx30]

31. Unless Weinwr drops out

the voters will decide, one way or another. But everyone has the right to express an opinion on the subject. If person x doesn't like the idea of any politician being elected, he has the right to say that. Everyone will have their say.

[truebluegreen]

32. I'm actually aware of the concept of free speech.

I just live in the hope that someday Americans will get over their unhealthy obsession with sex, especially other peoples.

[christx30]

33. I don't really care about Weiner's

stupid stuff either, except irt as a pattern if behavior, and an unwillingness or inability to learn from past mistakes.
And anyone that sends unsolicited dick pics to someone they aren't sleeping with is kind of creepy. He's a flasher in a park without the trenchcoat.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. LOL

Wiener's an idiot and Spitzer is a hypocrite. They make quite a pair.

[Elmergantry]

8. Weiner-Spitzer 2016! NT

[customerserviceguy]

14. As Letterman said the other night

The Tour de Pants!

[JI7]

10. Spitzer actually has a good record and interest in issues and going after corporations

my worry about this was that it might drag spitzer down. hopefully it doesn't.

[customerserviceguy]

15. He should have refused to comment

Tweedie got the pot to call the kettle black. It's 'gotcha journalism' of the finest kind.

[flamingdem]

11. from twitter -

Dan rather, on Piers Morgan, just declared Wiener "too creepy even for New York."

[ancianita]

18. Why don't you all quit FOLDING to pop media protestant porn.

Fight for Weiner's and Spitzer's past achievements and for their stands on progressive issues. This will go away if Democrats UNITE around good progressive candidates instead of running like a bunch of pansies over what is clearly media drama.

Suddenly you all give a shit about the cheap manipulations of Chris Matthews? PUH-LEASE.

[Nye Bevan]

19. Oh that Spitzer. What a prude. So prim and proper. Why is he so against fun? (nt)

[wordpix]

20. nothing like jumping to conclusions, DU - Spitz did not say WHY he thinks

Weiner shouldn't be mayor.

Maybe he has reasons other than hypocritical ones to not back Weiner. Maybe Spitzer has reasons totally unrelated to Weiner's sexual sophomoric behavior.

[geek tragedy]

26. Besides the fact that Weiner has a psychological disorder? nt

[wordpix]

29. it does appear so but I'm not his doctor

[davidpdx]

21. Neither one are better than the other

Spitzer slept with a prostitute and Wiener can't keeps his wiener in his pants.

[ancianita]

24. But each is better than any pack of Republican jackals! Stand up for their records!

[Sunlei]

23. if 'cons set the sex bar 'pic & text' low for politics. Then the Gov of Texas who invested in porn,

should be impeached asap? hey republican media arm? how about old Newt witnessed getting BJ in car ? why does he still have a career with the republican party?

let's drag out the old aol chat rooms off server storage, link the isp to todays politicans and see what they chatted and the pics they linked.

should 'cons ask every politican to list every porn video they ever watched? wait until they say "none" then catch them in a lie with some college roommate statement?

This is one of the paths republicans have and will take, to continue to hold America hostage forever.

[ancianita]

25. Thank you! DU must stop being suckers for media porn! Grownups can separate governing performance

from private foibles, or we never would have had John Fucking Kennedy.

So fucking grow up, DU! UNITE behind your progressives!

[Nay]

27. He's one to talk. nt

[Myrina]

28. Wow, he actually had the stones to comment on Weiner's weiner?

I love ya' Eliot but damn, son, SHUT UP about personal issues. You are not one to talk!!!

[nsd]

30. And Spitzer shouldn't be in politics, period.

The hypocrisy of this guy!

He was a prosecutor. He aggressively prosecuted people for the very crime he committed! Arghhhh!

I actually agree that Weiner shouldn't be mayor, but the idea that Spitzer dares to stand in judgment is so infuriating. Maybe Weiner is a jackass, but Spitzer is worse.

[jessie04]

35. Thats the part the pisses me off the most.

nt

[Arkana]

34. Hey Eliot--glass houses and all that.