So Does Tom Carper Have to Resign?

Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, has admitted that he slapped his first wife years ago hard enough that her face was swollen and she got a black eye.  When he ran for Congress at that time, the event was mentioned by his opponent and Carper both denied he had slapped his wife and centered his entire campaign around the "scurrilous" and "untrue" charges being leveled by his opponent.  Carper won that election.  For years after that, Carper denied that he had ever slapped his wife.  Now, the news is out that he, in fact, did just that.  Carper says that he would never do it again.

In today's climate, doesn't this admission by Carper require that he resign from the Senate?  This is worse, in my view, that Al Franken groping some women.  Franken's victims were not injured physically.  Carper's wife was physically assaulted.  She may not have chosen to press charges, but based upon Carper's description of the what happened, he would have been convicted of criminal assault had she done that.  Shouldn't Carper know better than to physically attack is wife?

I'm waiting to hear Chuck Schumer call for the departure of Carper from the Senate.  If Chuck won't do that, then at least all those women who wanted Franken tossed out should make a similar call against Carper.  Franken may be a creep, but Carper is an admitted wife-beater.