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Anthony Weiner was, still is as of this moment, a Congressman. If the “is” does become a “was” anytime soon, it shouldn’t be because he texted with women on official time. It shouldn’t be because he texted with women he wasn’t married to. The texts with women he wasn’t married to, while he himself was married, that is a different matter. In 2011 it is a different matter. In 2011 secrets are tougher to hide than ever before, and we seem more focused on the personal lives of politicians than ever before. Some of our greatest politicians were philanderers … it didn’t stop them from being good representatives of their constituents. Personally, I don’t care if my elected representative is a good husband. I’m not planning to marry him. I do care if he doesn’t have enough sense, judgment, self control, or humility to avoid putting himself in this position. This isn’t 1940. It’s a little harder now to get away with affairs … just ask Bill Clinton or Eliot Spitzer or …. Anyone who would send a picture of his own less than fully dressed lower torso to another person, might just lack the judgment necessary to be a congressman. Anyone who would lie about it when it would have been clear to any non-delusional and reasonably intelligent person that it was only a matter of time before the lie would be shown to be a lie does lack the judgment necessary to make the difficult decisions they occasionally make in Congress. This episode shouldn't be determinative, but it should be a factor. There are reasons that ”is” should become ”was.”