Sleep with Whores, Wake Up Not Governor
Eliot Spitzer has spent over $80 grand on this Washington prostitution ring. Given, as governor, and before that, as New York attorney general, he didn’t have call to be in DC all that often, even at $3500 a night (and we’ll leave aside what one might want at that price), that means that at least in recent years he saw a prostitute most of the time he was in DC. Some people love visiting our nation’s capital: There’s the National Gallery, the Smithsonian, the Lincoln Monument; for Eliot Spitzer, there was Kandi, and the rest of the gals.
Spitzer was a prosecutor, and by most accounts, a pretty good one. Prosecutors don’t tend to have a lot of tolerance for the frailties of others, and by all accounts, he had less tolerance than most. However, he appears to be exceedingly tolerant of his own human frailties. There’s no reason anyone else should be. He should go. Yes, Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was caught up in a similar scandal. Yes, Senator Vitter is human garbage, and he should be made to resign. But he comes from Louisiana; they have a long history of tolerance for hypocrisy and moral turpitude among their leaders. And they don’t have the New York Post and the New York Daily News. If they had papers like that, trust me: Vitter would be gone. And Spitzer should go.
UPDATE: Sure enough, Spitzer did resign, and wrote a graceful conclusion to a long, largely successful, but graceless political career.
Spitzer was a prosecutor, and by most accounts, a pretty good one. Prosecutors don’t tend to have a lot of tolerance for the frailties of others, and by all accounts, he had less tolerance than most. However, he appears to be exceedingly tolerant of his own human frailties. There’s no reason anyone else should be. He should go. Yes, Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was caught up in a similar scandal. Yes, Senator Vitter is human garbage, and he should be made to resign. But he comes from Louisiana; they have a long history of tolerance for hypocrisy and moral turpitude among their leaders. And they don’t have the New York Post and the New York Daily News. If they had papers like that, trust me: Vitter would be gone. And Spitzer should go.
UPDATE: Sure enough, Spitzer did resign, and wrote a graceful conclusion to a long, largely successful, but graceless political career.
