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#Weinergate: Ace on Patterico’s Part III

Read it, then go to Patterico:

And so here's a 17 year old. Likes to talk about sex publicly on Twitter. Pretty cute. Kind of girl you'd like if you were yourself 17 years old, and not a particularly handsome sort of 17 year old, but an awkward, skinny funny-looking kind of guy. Girl that that awkward, skinny, funny-looking 17 year old never could have gotten.

But now she says she "loves" him. And he does enjoy the validation of infatuated women.

Who doesn't?

But she's not a woman. She's a 17 year old girl. She is, for legal purposes, a child.

In the Manslaughter theory, he never says anything legally actionable in his private communications with her -- and yes, he seems to have had them. Rather, he just enjoys the crush-vibes he gets from her, flattered that a pretty young thing could be in "love" with a still-not-confident-and-mature boy-man like him.

Sure, he deflects away her serious protestations of love, but he doesn't say anything legally actionable. He just... enjoys the flattery of a pretty 17 year old who's in love with him.

Perfectly innocent.

Except it's not innocent. It's not innocent.

Because there is no one reading this right now who, if I were to suggest a similar scenario with an adult just seeking out their daughter's private attention, doing nothing actually illegal but just enjoying the fact the girl had a major league crush on him... well, there would be problems. Real problems.

A couple of other excellent posts at Pat's: Lee Stranahan's about the Breitbart laptop lie and how the left spread it, and Aaron Worthing on hypocrisy.

If hypocrisy is your thing, though, here you go:

Rep. Anthony Weiner overconfidently sent emails -- to his porn star pal Ginger Lee, no less -- mocking former Senator Larry Craig's bathroom sex scandal ... just 2 weeks before Weinergate exploded.

He goes on to insinuate that his Twitter troll was gay.

And that leads us to this Washington Times headline: Weiner reiterates his stance: He will not resign

A swelling gaggle of Democrats and Republicans this week has called for Mr. Weiner to resign, including Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz of Pennsylvania, a top official with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and U.S. Senate candidate and former Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine.

But Melanie Sloan, executive director of the D.C.-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said it’s unfair to lump Mr. Weiner together with other politicians tainted by sex scandal.

“I think people are incredibly hypocritical and just use this for political purposes,” she said. “Vitter committed a crime, and John Ensign’s conduct was reprehensible, and both of those people were actually having sex. And I don’t understand why this case was worse than those cases.”

A new poll suggests the lawmaker’s constituents may be willing to overlook his problems. Fifty-six percent of registered voters in Mr. Weiner’s New York’s 9th Congressional District don’t think he should resign from the House, while 33 percent say he should, according to results of a Wednesday poll conducted jointly by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion and NY1, a New York City cable news channel.

I guess they believe A. Weiner represents them well.

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