Dear Weiner,
It has come to my attention over the last couple of weeks that you apparently enjoyed sending pictures of yourself in various stages of dress or perhaps more appropriately undress to women. Now I've heard it said that what you did was legal, and that the women consented to have the pictures sent to them.
Frankly I don't care.
I've also heard that you've done a lot of really wonderful things for the people who elected you. That you were one of the few politicians out there that seemed to be making even a half assed attempt to do right by the people rather than the corporations.
Personally I could give two shits.
What has the full focus of my attention is the fact that today, you proved what kind of a person you are.
Namely a quitter, and a fucking coward.
There are people in both parties who have done far far worse things than you and stayed in office. Hell look at Teddy Kennedy. Now if you had of say banged a seventeen year old, or beaten someone up, or something truly clearly wrong and horrid, then yeah I could see where quitting could be the honorable thing to do.
But you didn't do anything like that. At most you played fast and loose with your marriage vows. Is this a good thing? Nope. Not going to pretend that it is. Clearly you and your wife have a lot of talking to do, to decide where things go next for you. I wish the both of you luck with that by the way.
Now I know that planting your feet and standing your ground would not have been easy. You'd have been subjected to even more ridicule. You might have suffered censure. Hell you might have even ended up not getting re-elected. To be certain the people would have had the right to make that choice. Shucks I'll go one step further, you would have had the right to decide not to run for re-election.
But instead you quit.
Which makes you a pathetic fucking gutless cowardly piece of shit.
It also proves that no matter how wonderful and progressive and humane and beneficial whatever you did in the past might have been, you, just like practically every other upper middle to lower upper class Liberal politician out there just DO NOT Fucking get it.
You see Weiner, there are people in this country who are tired. They are working themselves literally to death trying to provide a life for them and their family. Once upon a time the working classes at least had the hope of Social Security. Able to look forward to a time when they could lay down their burden and enjoy the latter portion of their life. They don't have that secure hope any more. Because of the people that you were meant to be fighting. But you quit. Well guess what Weiner, these people don't have that luxury.
Meanwhile there are people trying to find a job, hoping against hope that they can keep a roof over their head for one more day, and that maybe tomorrow, maybe McDonald's will call back so they can go to work for seven twenty five an hour. They don't get to quit either. Because if they quit then they get to be homeless pretty fucking quickly.
But I guess you don't really give a shit about any of that. Because if you did you wouldn't have given up, and run away like a little child. You'd have stood your ground. You'd have stuck in there and kept doing the job you were elected to do. You would have realized that there are things in this world bigger and more important than you and your poor choice of recreational activities. You would have stood with the people and kept fighting for them.
But hey it's okay. The important thing is that you have time to heal. I hope that is great comfort to the people you were meant to speak for when the Republicans craft legislation that turns them into life long serfs for the Corporatocracy.
Keep The Faith My Brothers And Sisters!