This is not moralizing. It's a matter of your judgment, your self-control, trust, and the decorum that we expect of our public officials. New York voters should ask themselves: Do we want to look at our mayor next year and see pictures of "Carlos Danger" and his crotch photos?
You and your wife have claimed that this is private and should stay within your family. I agree. But it didn't, and you have to take responsibility for that. As a public figure -- with ambitions to be mayor of New York City, even after having to resign in disgrace from Congress -- you should have known that nothing online is private.
What you did online wasn't so bad, if it had stayed private; but, if you really can't control your urges -- even when it means your career -- that is bad.
As Gail Collins wrote in the New York Times today: The mayoral race ought to be about the problems of New York. Instead is about your drama. And, while we're at that, it's beginning to look more and more that, rather than bravely facing the shame, you are reveling in the attention of all this media hoopla. And dragging your loyal wife into the tawdry spectacle along with you.
Do everyone a favor and stop fanning the flames. If you really want this to be a private matter with your wife, then stop going on TV, stop giving interviews, and stop running for mayor.
The New York Times lead editorial a few days ago said it best:
". . . a familiar but repellent pattern of misleading and evasion. . . . he has already disqualified himself. . .Ralph
"[For] those who know his arrogance and have grown tired of the tawdry saga he has dragged the city into, this is not surprising."
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