Comments on: LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION

By: HoundOfDoom

HoundOfDoom — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:06:14 +0000

This is reminiscent of a French scandal where a politician in the Chirac administration got caught in some dalliance.

While the French are typically more relaxed about this sort of thing, when asked if Chirac sacked the hapless pol because of his actions the reply was “No, I fired him because he got caught.”

If Spitzer can’t handle an affair (even with a call girl) without getting nailed, he has no business handling the affairs of State.

What an idiot.

By: Bill Arnold

Bill Arnold — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:40:52 +0000

As a Democrat from NY, my immediate reaction was “he was behaving like a Republican hypocrite, he should resign”. OK, it’s a little partisan, but the gross-hypocrisy-in-politics stories have been dominated by Republicans the last several years.

But in NY - which is effectively a one party (D) state
No, it’s not. We had Al D’Amato (”Senator Pothole”) for close to 2 decades prior to Schumer. The State Senate has been Republican for a very long time. We had a Republican governor prior to Spitzer. In my county, for local elections the Republican primary is the election. New York City is mostly solidly Democratic, though it neighborhoods vary and it did spawn Giuliani. (I count Bloomberg as to the left of Rockefeller Republicans.)

I do hope he’s not prosecuted under the 1910 Mann Act

By: Thomas Crowley

Thomas Crowley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:39:08 +0000

Does anyone remember “The Mann Act”?

By: tHePeOPle

tHePeOPle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:09:28 +0000

Par for the course? Awww come on… I was so full of hope 8 years ago. You might say that I was bursting at the seams with it. I guess I might lean left more than I did in the past, but it’s only because of the massive sense of betrayal and failure I feel about a party that I once identified with.

It’s a personality flaw, I know, but I just take perverse pleasure at watching hypocrites destroy themselves on either side of the isle. It just seems to have been more on the right the past few years. It’ll swing back the other way, it always does.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:30:51 +0000

I believe that Spitzer’s mistake should be treated with every ounce of mercy that Martha Stewart’s mistake was treated by him.

By: lawhawk

lawhawk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:27:08 +0000

Yesterday, I dug up one of the old stories about former Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who was found to have misappropriated state funds into his own pockets.

At the time Spitzer had just been elected governor; Hevesi just reelected. Spitzer said that Hevesi was unfit for office and should resign.

Spitzer should hold to his own standards - and resign.

By: tHePeOPle

tHePeOPle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:02:03 +0000

The only time I care about a politicians sexual exploits is when they publicly preach some contrived brand of morality in order to pander to voters, then get caught doing the exact opposite.

This is why it’s often more hilarious when republicans go down in flames in sex scandals. For some reason they like to come across as having a monopoly on morality.

Otherwise I couldn’t possibly care less who they’re banging. In fact, it’s high time some of these guys started having more sex.

Um…the fact that Spitzer ran his campaign as someone ethically superior to all other candidates and featured his family throughout the race doesn’t appear to disturb your “hypocrisy nerve” at all.

Curious - but par for the course.

Ed.

By: zenpundit

zenpundit — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:30:08 +0000

“What a tool.”

Pretty much. I concluded that Greenwald had no higher aspirations that creating a revenue stream for himself by being a partisan shill back when he first started writing about the issue of illegal combatants on his pre-Salon blog.

By: Brooklyn Dave

Brooklyn Dave — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:26:59 +0000

Not that I have followed the career of Spitzer all that carefully, but especially since this guy won the governorship his phenomenal arrogance has been noticed even by the likes of me. When he was the AG, you kind of expected him to have somewhat of a Terminator attitude, but as governor he just continued in steamroller fashion which hasn’t endeared him to many–even Democrats. Not too sorry to see Eliot Spitzer cross over to the “Other Side”—-of political has beens!

By: Sirius Familiaris

Sirius Familiaris — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:18:38 +0000

Rick,

Your readers need to bear in mind this is only Spitzer’s most recent transgression. He also advocated issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and used the NY State Troopers NKVD style to spy on political opponents.

Anywhere else in the country, this man would have been tarred and feathered by now. But in NY - which is effectively a one party (D) state - there’s no political sin that both the public and the media won’t forgive. If Spitzer doesn’t resign, he’ll run for reelection in ‘10 and, in all liklihood, will be serve another term.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to live among such magnanimous folks.