Democrats don’t embarrass easily. But unless Gov. Cuomo exercises some adult control, the current Democratic candidates may well have the party trading in the traditional donkey for a new image: Client 9 on his hotel bed with his socks on.
A new statewide poll from Siena Research Institute finds 68 percent of all voters — 62 percent in the city — say the national attention drawn by the sexploits of Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner is “embarrassing.” It only adds to the embarrassment that neither man has the decency to drop out of his respective race.
Enter Cuomo. To his credit, early on the governor said “shame on us” if Weiner is elected mayor. Since then, more Weiner sext-mates have emerged, and that plus his dissembling has seen him tank in the polls.
Now The Post’s Fredric U. Dicker reports that Cuomo might come out publicly against Spitzer, too. There are good reasons he should: First, unlike Weiner, Spitzer leads in the polls. Second, unlike Weiner — who was not accused of anything criminal — Spitzer quit as governor one step ahead of state and federal prosecutors. And with Scott Stringer as the alternative, the seat would still likely go to a liberal Democrat.
As attorney general, Cuomo rightly took on Spitzer’s abuse of state troopers. As governor, he would do both his party and New York City a great favor by coming out clearly against the other great Democratic embarrassment in this election year.