Craiglist Chris Lee vs. Twitter Anthony Weiner: Double Standard?

Married NY Republican Congressman sends one shirtless photo of himself to one woman and immediately resigns in shame. Married NY Democratic Congressman sends multiple photos of his crotch, chest, and others too lewd for release, to multiple women, lies through his teeth to the press for over a week, finally comes clean only when no longer possible to lie, but still refuses to resign. Double standard, anyone?

It appears there is no rhyme or reason in how this occurs. It's not always a partisan outcome as well, but comparing these two incidents immediately comes to mind because the Congressmen were both from New York and both had very similar scandals relatively close in time, distinguished mainly by their different responses and outcomes, and of course political parties, that I find curious.

And watching some in the media buying Weiner's BS stories when most rational people thought it was far more likely he was lying, giving him quite the benefit of the doubt that would not have disappeared had Breitbart not forced Weiner's hand, and then on MSNBC I even saw them there praising him for his press conference immediately afterward today. There is sometimes evidently partisan crap in these sex scandal reporting that is so transparent it's bizarre and nauseating at the same time.

I would like it if there was some uniform standard in terms of repercussions and how the media covers these sorts of scandals.

Here is a recap just looking at resignations though:

RECENT SEX-RELATED SCANDALS WITH RESIGNATION:
Elliot Spitzer (D)
Jim McGreevey (D)
John Ensign (R)
Mark Sanford (R)
Mark Foley (R)
Chris Lee (R)

RECENT SEX-RELATED SCANDALS WITHOUT RESIGNATION:
Bill Clinton (D)
Anthony Weiner (D)
David Vitter (R), ran for reelection and won
Larry Craig (R), did not immediately resign, but did not run for reelection

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