Were Eliot Spitz King David would he be asked to resign?

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer got caught in a government sting operation. He got caught as client #9 with his pants down frequently an upmarket call girl in Washington. Spitzer apologised to his wife and family and to New Yorkers for his indiscretion. You would think the social shame was enough and everyone would leave him alone. Wrong! His adultery was too good for the gutter and the smart and the very high fulutin' press. Rivers of ink flowed, editorials waxed indignant that Spitzer had strayed from the righteous path as an elected official, and some have called for his resignation. He shouldn't give into the crocodile tears and mock turtle morality of a hypocritical strain of America's puritain legacy. Did he do wrong in his the carrying out of his duties. He didn't. He did what most men do or dream of doing...he had an affair with another woman for money. So 18Brumaire asks the question would these keepers of morality and probity demanded that King David put off his crown and let a son of his succeed him because he coveted Bethsheva and sent her husband to his death? Which amounts to murder to bed a wench, doesn't it? The pious would say David was anointed so he could do no wrong in the eyes of his god who forgave him. We say Spitzer should be pitied more than put on the public pillory. And above all, don't pressure the man to resign. As governor he is doing things which that joke of a president Herr Bush should be doing for the US and isn't. If anyone should be forced out of office it is Herr Bush not Eliot Spitzer. Governor Spitzer is a chastened man, and so leave his shame to him and cut a wide circle around his wife to deal with a family crisis.