It's the type of high-profile crime Eliot Spitzer would have had a field day prosecuting. Still, I can't rejoice in any karmic justice Spitzer's legal troubles may or may not present. Wouldn't it have been better to have defeated the New York governor's noxious ideas at the ballot box than to see him go down through a personal scandal involving an overpriced call girl? Live by litigiousness, die by litigiousness, I guess. But the problem with politics by other means, the politics of personal destruction, or whatever you want to call it is that it doesn't get you anywhere. Destroying this politician or that politician doesn't win anyone over to your ideas or rebut the opposition's ideas. It's also a zero-sum game. For every Eliot Spitzer, there's a David Vitter; for every Barney Frank, a Mark Foley; for every Bill Clinton, a Bob Livingston. This is not to excuse their misdeeds, just to point out that no party has the market cornered on scandal. There's certainly something seedy and troublesome about a trusted government offical paying thousands of dollars for sex. But more troublesome and seedy is a society that gets pleasure in the demise of famous people. Political talk shows now resemble the literature in the supermarket checkout line. Spitzer's transgressions reflect poorly on him. America's obsessions with such transgressions reflect poorly on us. Lust is a sin. Gossip is too.
Typical liberal media reporting.....they hide is Democratic affiliation at the bottom and end of the story. How much would they have splashed 'Republican' or 'GOP' or 'Conservative' label to this guy if he were a Republican. What shameful 'reporting' (tattletelling you guys have).
Eliot Spitzer needs to be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law. As he, himself is a "law and order" public servant, he must not only fully admit any criminal activity, he must request also that he serve the appropriate amount of jail time relative to the crime. His public "apology" to his family and others does not cut it. As a former prosecutor, I'm sure he would not allow his defendants to get off with an apology. His ass needs to go to jail now!
yea this scumbag needs some jail time. maybe he can make some license plates for the illegals he wants to give drivers licenses to. lol
This guy is a despicable, elitist, sanctimonious leftist a-hole and not enough bad things can happen to him. I think the fact that people are entertained by the plight of this hypocrite is justified.
He isn’t just some benign misguided politician and it’s good that there is some payback for jerks like this. Although, in the wonderful world of the Democrats where the bar is set so low, normal rules of wrongdoing and the outrage that supposed to accompany them do not apply.
Do "johns" normally serve prison time for involvement with prostitutes? I realize Spitzer is the type of guy who would ruthlessly go after political opponents if they were found in his predicament, but his standard is not the legal standard. I realize its tempting to treat Eliot Spitzer as he treats others, but that only makes you Eliot Spitzer.
If “not enough bad things can happen to him” means a trial and prison time, then so be it. And I hope it does. But if it doesn’t, at least there is some joy in seeing this $ucker squirm a bit. Either way, it’s likely he’ll be prosecuted for his illegal activities and will resign or suffer the embarrassment of impeachment.
