What Anthony Weiner Could Have Said to Stay in Office Two Years Ago

The American poet John Greenleaf Whitter had some wise words that apply to everyone who tweets first and thinks afterwards: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen,/The saddest are these: "It might have been!"



Imagine how different his career had been if Anthony Weiner had fessed up when the Twitter scandal originally and used some of that caustic New York wit he was famous for. He could have said something like this:



"Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I'm here today as a man who has suffered a...