Dirty Dems

Wiener, Spitzer, Filner. It's not the Dirty Dozen yet but they are working on it. The first two are running respectively for the mayor and comptroller of New York City. Today even the New York Times bailed on Wiener, who hinted that even more X-rated peccadilloes of his are on the way. Great. 

Then there's Spitzer. Eliot "No Shame" Spitzer. I remember when the story first broke about his midnight romps with prostitutes and he shamelessly mounted the podium with his wife as a stage prop. She looked so very sad. 

Finally, Filthy Filner, the Mayor of San Diego. At last report he was urging select females in his office to report for work without panties. Unbelievable. What ever happened to embarrassment?  Shame has been extinct for a while.

More importantly, what has happened to the voters? We get the statesman or bums that we deserve because we can vote for or against them. San Diego in particular used to be a relatively conservative city but Filner has always had a rep as very liberal and a horn dog. In much of the country, it appears that the cultural climate and the political climate mirror each other. Excuse me, I need to go take a shower.