Bobby Etheridge fell for much less "cause." Moran has a history of extremist rhetoric and, shall we say, "personal" anger management problems.
This is, in every way, equal to being caught "in bed, with a live boy or a dead girl."
And yet, in Etheridge's case, back home the congressional district he had repeatedly been re-elected to represent in Congress had changed demographically, the national backlash to Obama driving the 2010 election results favored Republicans, and his competition was managed to strike a responsive chord and to obtain equal name recognition.
This is despite a monolithic press mouthpiece favoring the self-referential Democrat socialist elites.
Moran has gone over the line, and if American civilization were healthy and its people mostly self-confident, he would already have been shamed into resignation. But our civilization is eroded, particularly among the frightened government employed or dependent mob in and around the district he represents.
My response is not to change minds in his district but to look to minds and conditions in the district where I live, hoping (and working to see) no one as unbalanced as he ever even gets elected in the first place.
As it is, if his supporters are so weak and fearful that they can't confidently replace him with a more friendly face, let this creep be the face they choose to represent them.
“’personal’ anger management problems”
Apparently problems in managing adult beverages as well.