If Mark Sanford, who snuck off to his Argentinian lover, can win the GOP nomination for his old House seat in South Carolina and if Bill Clinton can be a revered elder statesman, is Weiner beyond redemption?

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We also love redemption to see that as bad as we are, we could someday get another chance to be special beyond what anyone or even ourselves imagined.

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