Okay. I give up. Weiner. Weiner! Weiner!! There I said it.

Goldberg is on fire with Weinergate.  I particularly like the following:

If it's a Republican sex scandal, the Republican almost always resigns almost immediately. Often that's because Republicans have higher moral standards for this kind of thing. But it also has to do with the fact the media has exactly zero tolerance for Republican sexual "hypocrisy."
 
Meanwhile, if you're a Democrat and, say, your boyfriend runs a gay prostitution ring out of your apartment, well, that's complicated. Of course, it's not just the Franks and Weiners. Remember the "waitress sandwich"? That involves putting some poor woman between two slices of Irish stout named Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd. That was complicated, too. I really wanted to keep going with the food-themed sex scandals but I petered out there. Regardless, the point is well-established: The Right, for good reasons and cynical ones, gets held to a higher standard.
 
(The same holds true in international politics, apparently. When Paul Wolfowitz ran the World Bank, he maintained a mature, fully disclosed relationship with a colleague. IMF president Dominique Strauss-Kahn borrowed his management style from the nobility in Braveheart, believing that he had the right of Prima Nocta -- and secondae nocta, tertia nocta, etc. -- with anything in skirt. Guess which guy was railroaded out of a job beforehe tried to rape a hotel maid?)

It's also worth noting how outrageously cynical liberals and Democrats are about all of this. I have no problem with Republicans being forced from public office when they reveal unambiguous moral skeeviness. Indeed, that's usually my preference. But the only time you can count on liberals to be sanctimonious about sexual morality is when they are using conservative standards as a cudgel for political gain. It's not that they actually condemn most of the behavior, they simply condemn Republicans for not living up to standards Democrats don't even hold.
 
(Recall that Nancy Pelosi held onto the Mark Foley story for six months before using it against the GOP. Barack Obama helped force open Jack Ryan's -- his opponent in the Illinois Senate race -- divorce records.)
 
No, but what really gets my goat -- and, note it is Goat Trauma Awareness Month -- is that when conservatives put our moral values at the forefront, we're Comstocks, prudes, or "Christianists." But when we have a more relaxed, secular, East Coast sense of humor about these things (Weiner!), we're suddenly immature or crude or boorish.
 
Well, which is it? Am I Cotton Mather or am I Carrot Top?
 
Oh, and keep in mind that Congressman Anthony Weiner -- the man alleged to have tweeted his man-business to a college girl -- has made a slew of jokes about his own bait-and-tackle (well, not so much the tackle). Surely if he can be defended for making Weiner jokes, it's open season for us all.