Anthony Weiner, stop acting like your name. And we don’t mean “Carlos Danger,” the nom de ‘net that apparently attracts starry-eyed romantics online. That, and genital snapshots.

Eliot Spitzer — forget it. You had to quit as governor because of hiring prostitutes, which is, besides being icky, illegal. Why should New York City pick you as comptroller?

And 70-year-old San Diego Mayor Bob Filner? Whoa, didn’t see that coming.

Until Filner joined this summer’s parade of sleazeball politicians admitting to serial degrading of women, we hoped this latest outbreak was an East Coast thing. But no, Filner apparently has cornered, groped and otherwise demeaned a variety of women, nine of whom have come forward so far.

Filner recently said he was checking into a clinic for treatment. He should resign. How can he work with women after this? And Weiner and Spitzer should quit their candidacies with a polite: “Oops! Never mind.”

Weiner has enriched the New York City mayor’s race with an infinite supply of off-color tabloid headlines and the interesting political strategy of not bothering to stop lewd behavior after it’s disclosed.

Weiner says his personal conduct is irrelevant. Wrong. Public officials need good judgment — and respect for the opposite sex. Weiner and Filner are zeroes on those counts. As to Spitzer, we don’t know what he’s been up to lately. And we don’t want to know. Enough!

 

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