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(7,499 posts)HE needs to do what is best for the country as any good Democrat should do and HE needs to put his personal ambitions in the right place and step aside until it plays out in court.
It's not a legal requirement since there isn't an indictment or any presentation of evidence before a judge but if he refuses to step aside and Collins wine because of the backlash, it's minor that he lost but not minor that the country did. This election will not determine the future on its own no matter what some people on DU think, but we need every win because we have seen what the repugs have done with the slimmest of majorities.
It's one thing to lose because some cheated, lied, or took advantage of the situation as the repugs did to Clinton but they weren't the cause of his problems. He was.
What he does now tells us whether he is just another self-centered politician or someone who puts his country first. Resignation is not an admission of guilt. He won't be out on the street starving. Nobody will tear off his bars, cut off his buttons and paint a yellow stripe down his back. When you run for office, your past is an open book. He just has too many questions to answer that honest people will ask. Unlike the repug rabble who close their eyes to the worst of crimes, we Democrats still have the decency to say our Constitution, our Democracy, our sense of honesty, ethics, fairness and caring about everyone is more important than one man's ambitions. He needs to show he is one of us. We don't need to bend to him.