No one should resign based on their sexual indiscretions.

[Cant trust em]

Unless something illegal has happened, we should all just mind our own business.

I haven't thought this through completely, but it strikes me as absurd that we care so much about what these people do during their spare time.

[JackintheGreen]

1. Couldn't agree more, in theory

but our worthless media need these peccadilloes as bread and butter to feed the hypocritical masses who will use this to isolate and marginalize those guilty of such indiscretions.

[slackmaster]

2. I agree, but people who lie about their indiscretions should resign for dishonesty.

HTH

[flamingdem]

7. No they shouldn't especially if they're not married and all about moral bla bla

Of course he had to take his time with this, I don't like what he did but it's lame to expect him to resign for something so minor

[kelly1mm]

14. Rep Weiner is married. nt

[flamingdem]

3. I agree, let's move on from this now, yuk nt

[LLStarks]

4. Agree. As long as it doesn't interfere with your job or the law, I don't care. nt

[justiceischeap]

5. I think resignations are in order if you run on a Family Values platform

If a politician bases his campaign on "family values" and judges others because they are not under the "family values" umbrella, then they DO need to step down.

But yeah, most folks don't lose their jobs when they're caught with their Weiner on Twitter.

[Cant trust em]

9. Note to self, if I ever run, make sure to do it on a cocaine and strippers platform.

I'll just set the bar really low.

[originalpckelly]

6. This guy did:

We seemed to have no problem with that, and there wasn't even a dick pic involved.

[Cant trust em]

8. He shouldn't have resigned either.

You won't find any posts that I've ever written about Chris Lee because to me its a non-story.

[exboyfil]

10. I think the toe tapping

Larry Craig agrees. What Craig did should not have been a crime.

The folks of his Congressional district need to decide Rep. Weiner's fate at the next election. It is not like a Republican will ever elected from that district.

[alc]

11. if they did something they don't want the public to know about

How far will they go to keep it secret? Not sponsoring a bill? Adding an exemption? Voting against it? If Breitbart could get this, why not someone with motives other than self-publicity?

I don't care about sexual indiscretions, but when you're careless enough that Breitbart can discover them you don't deserve to hold office.

[Riftaxe]

12. In the case of weiner probably not nt

[cbdo2007]

13. Their sexual indiscretions aren't the problem....it is the lying.

Who knows what else they're lying about or what else they're sneaking around about.

It isn't just lying to us....he lied to the person who is supposed to trust him the most in the whole world, so you think he'll think twice ever about lying to you too?

[Citizen Worker]

15. I am in basic agreement, including the lying unless it occurs under oath. The law rests on

truthfulness. That's where I parted with Clinton, when he lied under oath in the Jones deposition. Clinton should have simply refused to answer the question stating that his private life is private and did not affect his job performance. In the Lewinski affair Clinton took advantage of his position of power over her, a common occurrence in sexual harassment, and he should have been censured.
Larry Craig's toe tapping incident, while not a felony, rightfully led to his choosing not to run for re-election because of his steadfast support of so called family values, a position embraced by most of those who voted for him.

[Philippine expat]

16. I agree

but any politician that gets caught, lies to the public and tries to cover it up should resign