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After viewing BigGovernment.com this afternoon, Ed Cox, the chairman of the New York GOP, told National Review Online that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) should “do the honorable thing.”
Mike Long, the chairman of the Conservative Party of New York, was even more blunt. Long tells NRO that Weiner should “resign, effective immediately.”
“It would be the best thing for his wife and his supporters,” Long says. “He should think about his district and all of his supporters. Resignation, at this point, is the right thing to do.”
Meanwhile, Queens businessman Bob Turner, who challenged Weiner in 2010, tells us that he will likely run for Congress next year.
“I think that could happen,” he says. For now, “I am getting a good seat, getting some pop corn, and watching the show.” He’ll leave the resignation question “up to Mr. Weiner.”
Did he have to have the last name Cox?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNYT page 1 headline, "COX WANT WEINER TO RESIGN"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseUnfortunately "the honorable thing" for democrats is not to resign. To them it is a resume enhancement.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRE: “do the honorable thing.”
Given the laws of inertia, um, don't count on it. Weiner's on a heck of a streak.
He will resign. It won't be honorable. That ship sailed many days...many pictures ago.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWait a minute, a politician is calling on another politician to do the "honorable" thing? Memo to Mr. Cox: in the last 20 yrs or so, honor and politicians in the US have completely and utterly divorced from each other. No such thing today: a US politician and honorable action!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI guess Congressman Weiner should fall on his "sword" so to speak.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI never understood how resignation was necessarily the "honorable thing" in the face of a public scandal.
Perhaps it's honorable to literally fall on one's sword in the face of shame, but in the figurative sense I don't see how resigning is necessary. What about serving some sort of personal penance instead? Seems it's always either a lame apology on the one hand or resignation on the other. Methinks our society lacks imagination.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn my book, the "honorable thing" involves something a little more final than mere resignation.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSomewhere, there's a politician condemning Weiner in between indulging in his own (yet to be uncovered) indiscretions....
What counts as "honorable" among that lot anymore?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSince when do Democrats resign because of inappropriate personal conduct? Democrats don't run on family values, therefore, are not required to live in accordance with that standard. If the President of the United States can do the deed with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office and end up a popular and much-admired elder statesman, why should Anthony Weiner resign because of a few inappropriate tweets?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm sorry, but I'm finding NRO's fascination with Weinergate quite dissapointing. I expect this sort of hounding any time a Republican is caught in an indiscretion, but I was content to think that we conservatives were above such things.
Unless, that is, someone wants to contend that this is news, because anyone thought Mr. Weiner to have been above such behavior. Anyone? ... Anyone?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI can't see a single thing wrong with holding public officials to reasonable standards of behavior.
This guy is a genuine creep. He deserves to be run out of congress in shame.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYeah, I'll contend that it's news when a sitting congressman, regardless of party affiliation, sends a lewd photograph of himself to a young college babe he's befriended on his congressional Twitter account and then tries to cover up the whole sordid mess by obfuscation and insults to the public's intelligence. Yeah, sounds like news to me.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn his district anyone elected will be a democrat. If he resigns the entertainment value of the story is going to die down. He should stay, it is much lighter to discuss twiters than massacres in Syria, double digit unemployment, double dip recession ...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFor quite a while now, the "honorable thing" for Democratic politicians (and Hollywood types) has been to hold a tearful press conference, go on Oprah, and do a short stint in rehab. Now that Oprah's off the air this whole shtick is gone.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNRO is correct in treating Weingergate as a legitimate news story. Absent any denial from the married Weiner, we are entitled to presume that he sent an inappropriate (is in-priapic a word?) photo to a 21-year-old girl he didn't know. This reflects upon his morals, his judgment, and therefore his fitness for public office. It's like Bill Clinton without the perjury and obstruction of justice - in fact, it's probably his unwillingness to follow Bubba's felonious path that has kept Weiner from lying outright and claiming the chicken-leg in the picture isn't him.
Any satisfaction we conservatives get from watching Weiner, one of the most insufferably smug, self-satisfied leftists in the Democratic party (and it's a crowded field) slowly self-destruct is purely incidental. Sometimes when I'm lying awake at night worrying about how much longer I'll still have a roof over my head and wondering when I'll ever be able to find work again, I think about what Mrs. Weiner must be saying Mr. Weiner behind closed doors, and I fall into a peaceful sleep just like a child.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRep. Anthony Weiner, my fellow Dem. from N.Y. should risign and think about his famiy first and foremost. This is not a moment for partisan politics.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseResignation would take him out of the news loop for the summer and the concomitant exposé of a liberal; stay and be defeated in the next election, Mr. Weiner.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDear Rep Weiner, Please do not resign. Please stay in office and give us an easy example we can point to and show undecideds what Liberals are really like. (That's why I was so disappointed when Oberman left MSNBC)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe will resign only if Schumer order him to do so. Otherwise, he will have a very crowded Democratic primary. I was actually surprised that Spitzer resigned and believe he did so only because he took a fast poll that showed tremendous disgust with his actions.
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