Eric Cantor today, the Republican Majority Leader, big mistake politically in stepping up in that quote we just showed and calling on Weiner to resign.
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Well, everything is about politics with people on Capitol Hill, so yes, of course.
Big mistake politically in stepping up in that quote we just showed and calling on Weiner to resign.
If he's now going to be opining on each unfaithful or cyber-unfaithful husband, he ought to have to take a position now on whether David Vitter, the senator from Louisiana, who ran on family values and then got caught on the D.C. madam's…
I do think, actually, public figures have a right to a private life. They don't have a right to lie to the public, to Wolf Blitzer, to their staff, to their constituents. And that's what Congressman Weiner did.
I think it's very selfish for him to put his party through this, let alone Huma, who's a remarkable human being.
I will criticize David Vitter. He ran as a family values conservative. He was on the list of the D.C. madam.
If he gets through all of that, then he still in 17 months has to face his constituents.
He may have -- there's -- I think it's rule one, that a member must do nothing to bring the House into disrepute.
It's just bizarre, tawdry, disgusting. What it really is, though, is, also, it's dishonest.
If I was the chairman of the DNC, or however your party works, Paul, I would say, hit the high road, baby.





