Its depth, its breadth, its height. It’s … I simply can’t imagine it.
Dude, what were you thinking?
Seriously, try to picture this with me. Here’s a guy who’s a member of the house of representatives in an ultimately safe district. His predecessor went to the senate, and there’s no reason not to believe he can too in the fullness of time. His future is assured, if only the stars remain in the heavens. Fedguv politicians die rich, if not precisely beloved, even if they never achieve any national prominence. And he loses it all doing something so compulsively, so tragically idiotic it would ruin Travis Bickle’s life.
Okay, shit happens. So you take your pension, your graft proceeds, and what tchotchkes you’ve amassed in your brief moment in the sun, and you quietly descend to whatever level makes you comfortable. Right? I mean, sure, you’ve already proven you’re unwise. But you’re not crazy, right? Just go away.
But no. That’s not enough for this guy. He’s entitled, by god. He’s meant to rule, and rule he shall. So he gathers up what political capital he has left – and shockingly, he has some – and goes for another brass ring. He bears the inevitable jokes, poses with hot dogs, smiles through the pain, and runs for frickin’ mayor of frickin’ NYC. Wow. This, I thought to myself at the time, is almost admirable. Never if I live to be a thousand could I imagine myself having the balls to do such a thing. You should excuse the expression.
Surely – I thought to myself at the time – he has taken the simple precaution of making sure the scandal is well and truly behind him. Surely he wouldn’t be such a lunatic as to still be…
Wow.
Carlos Danger!
easy to explain ….. psychopath
Hillery’s girlfriend’s husband, and a Jew/Arab marriage at that.
Beyond amazement. I’m with you Joel on this one.
And what’s with that creepy political wife? Young, beautiful, accomplished, politically connected –and there she is standin’ by her man like Tammy Wynette circa 1960. Twice now he’s humiliated her in public over the same avoidable I’m-too-hot-for-my-wife-and-too-grand-to-get-caught offense.
Either she’s the world’s most lovestruck loon (which I doubt) or she’s made a political calculation based on … what? … that this guy has a future of “greatness” in which she’ll be the power behind the throne? Or eventually on the throne?
What do you want to bet, though, that if he bails out of the mayor’s race or loses ignominiously she drops him like a hot … er, wiener.
His wife must figure he has a lock on mayor of NY and she could then use that as leverage for her own political career
I’m trying to figure out why this SERIOUSLY ugly dude thinks he has anything anybody wants to see… including himself fully clothed. He needs to get a life, but I don’t think anyone is going to pay him to see pictures of his willy…. which seems to be his only talent.
I think he is eminently qualified to be mayor of NYC. Just look at the current one…