William McGurn writes The Biggest Weiner of  All in The New York Post.

Excerpt:

Everyone deserves a second chance, but not a third chance. In Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, we learned about Gennifer Flowers. Later, we were treated to a parade of wronged women: Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick. If Anthony Weiner doesn’t deserve a “third” chance, what about the 8th and 9th chances given Bill Clinton?

That’s the Clinton standard. Dee Dee Myers herself noted this during a long interview on the Clinton presidency for a PBS documentary. “How many second chances does any one person deserve?” she asked. “And Clinton’s view is, as many second chances as a person is willing to try to take.”

It’s not the sex, it’s the lying. Please. Clinton was the man who parsed the meaning of the word “is.” The man who claimed to a grand jury, as president, that he hadn’t had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky on the grounds that while receiving oral sex constitutes sexual relations, giving oral sex is not.

It’s true that when the first Weiner sexts emerged, instead of owning up to his behavior, he (like Clinton) lashed out at his accusers. This time around, when the Sydney Leathers sexts emerged, he was better prepared.

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