Eliot Spitzer needs to put a black sock in it.
The former governor-turned-hooker-booker, who is audaciously running for comptroller, had the gall yesterday to say serial sexter Anthony Weiner is unfit to serve as mayor.
“You’re not going to vote for Anthony Weiner — can you just say that now? You don’t think he should be mayor of New York,” host Chris Matthews asked on his MSNBC show, “Hardball.”
Spitzer responded, “Fair point. That is correct.”
Matthews repeated, “He should not be mayor of New York?”
“That is correct,” repeated Spitzer.
The disgraced Love Gov — who has been trying to deflect comparisons between his comptroller campaign and Weiner’s bid for mayor — even said he would fire a municipal worker who used office computers to engage in the same perverted behavior as Weiner, who resigned his congressional seat in 2011 after getting caught exchanging lewd messages with women online.
Spitzer refused to elaborate on his comments during a drop-in at a gospel concert at Wingate HS in Brooklyn last night.
“I’ve said everything I’m going to say about the mayor’s race,” he told a Post reporter.
The campaign of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Spitzer’s rival for comptroller, called his comments hypocritical.
“It’s clear that Eliot Spitzer thinks there are two standards: one for him, and one for everybody else,” said a Stringer spokesman.
Like Weiner, Spitzer was forced to resign from public office in a sex-related scandal.
Unlike Weiner, Spitzer said his dalliances with high-priced hookers — who told of his fondness for wearing black socks to bed with them — ended when he resigned as governor in 2008.
Weiner saw his Twitter scandal respark national media coverage last week after it was revealed that he had continued exchanging raunchy texts with women.
The negative attention has spurred top Democratic forces close to Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama to launch efforts to persuade Weiner to end his mayoral bid.
“The only people with any leverage are Huma and the Clintons,” said one Democratic source.
But for now, sources say Weiner’s glamorous wife, Huma Abedin, is still on board.
“She’s as delusional as he is,” said the Democratic source.
Another party source told The Post Weiner won’t drag down congressional Democrats — but will keep causing headaches for the Democrats’ front-runner in the next presidential campaign.
“That’s not a DC problem — that’s a presidential 2016 problem. The only person who has a worry or concern about that is Hillary,” said the source.
That leaves Bill Clinton, who officiated at the Weiner-Abedin wedding, as the best messenger to try to get Weiner to quit.
Weiner deflected questions last night about the Clintons’ lack of support for him
“I’m interested in what pundits say, I’m interested in what politicians say but not that much,” Weiner said sarcastically.
Before rushing away without answering a question about Spitzer’s comments, Weiner said yesterday’s poll showing him in fourth place doesn’t “change my life one bit.”
An adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign said Weiner will eventually drop out, because “it’s embarrassing.”
It would have been one thing if he had been “a significant leader in the Congress or somebody who had done something in the Congress,” Steve Elmendorf said. “But he was a putz.”