Spitzer is a hypocrite plain and simple.  When he was attorney general of New York he went after the bad guys and made his bones as a bull dog. Now the dog is biting him over his behavior and deservedly so.

I don't care that he is a Clinton supporter.  I don't care that he had a relationship with a high $$ prostitute or agency of prostitutes.  I care that he was funneling money around through improper channels (which is how he got caught) and was guilty as sin of not living up to the public trust.

He should be burned in the same ways that the CEOs and corporate big wigs that he helped take down were, and his career should wind up in the same place theirs did.  What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and he deserves to reap what he sowed.

Good? Hmmm...Spying on Joe Bruno - That is good? (That one took down a president in a different year)

Good? Hmmmm...Drivers licences to Illegals? That is good?

Good? Hmmmm...Right wing lynch mob? Then how was it HE broke the story of his involvement in the Prostitution ring?

You have a funny way of describing good.

I guess you have to be named Clinton to get away with prosecuting people for sexual activities while taking part in them youself.

Any governor that would set himself up for something like this shows his own stupidity.  Maybe he thought that, since few Democrats ever lose their jobs over scandals, he would be protected?

You make it seem as if we somehow believe we are immune to this kind of stuff. We may think the US is a great place but none the less it is still full of people who by nature make mistakes or do stupid things.



People lose their privacy when they commit crimes and are hypocritical about that which they claim to believe in. In this case, a guy who put a lot of people behind bars for doing the same thing he is being accused of.



You got this all wrong, we know politicians are mortals, we simply expect more from them just like we expect parents to be better role models for their children. When you are in a position that affects a lot of peoples lives, you are expected to act in a manner in which your actions do not affect those who's lives are affected by these same actions and trust in your judgment. While this kind of situation will be used politically, this is not about him, this is about the American people. When you are a leader and you fail, everyone fails.

If you think this is about sex, you miss the point entirely. It's about trust, and nothing undermines it like hypocrisy.

Nobody gives a rip if Larry Flynt gets blown by a hooker, that's just what he does, and he pretends to nothing. Spitzer engaging in interstate transportation of a woman for prostitution (he prosecuted prostitution rings when he was AG), after setting himself up as the moral arbiter for the state of New York - that's what people are pissed about. Kind of like Carrie Nation getting caught drunk in a speakeasy.

It's such a pathetic repeating scenario: "I somehow lost my moral compass. It used to be here somewhere, thought I carried in my back pocket. God Bless You, catching me with my head and a dildo up my ass has helped focus my search and lo & behold, it's just where it was all along, in the hands of my dear spouse, standing right back there. I can't thank you enough. Now, if you'll just excuse us, my family and I are going to spend some time together working on getting a refund for the dildo."

 

The law that is being slectiveluy used against him is a statute on structuring of money that exissts on the law books in order to track serious mail order frauds and money laundering.  It cannot and ought not to be used against political opponents. If this is the issue then Bill Clinton did far far worse and did not pay for it.

I agree that Spitzer was stupid but that does not ,ake hiom criminally l;iable for what is at best a private disdemenour.

 

Like he did?



Like he did?

As Daiwa and InquiringMind said, it is not about sex. The reaction would be the same if he was caught taking bribes after procesuting his opponents for doing the same. It is about hypocrisy, and how he seems to think that the laws are for others, not him.

If public trust is the issue as many including Daiwa and others argue, then how is it that an affair with a hooker can lead to such torrents of moral outrage. All politicians are hycorites to a lesser or greater degree. We must jude political figure by their public actions not their bedroom antics.

Ask the people Spitzer prosecuted for the same offense, if it is just a "private misdemeaner".

Noone gives a rip what Kama Sutra position he prefers, for cripes sake. Get real, Bahu.

I personally prefer the MLK approach - we should judge people by the content of their character. On that score, Spitz fails.

The Federal wire tap whose legality itself is open to question, and the authorisation for which is to protect USA from foreign terrorists using the USA to transmit messages, is to say the least questionable. If prying on a Governor by the Federal agencies is not opposed then civil libertarians will have a hard time.

I am not defending Spitzer, I am just saying that wire taps on Spitzer was illegal and politcally motivated.

I agree with this, but we are talking about a politician who is caught in a probably illegal wire tap.

I'm afraid you are wrong, there, Bahu. This was a court-authorized tap, based on evidence obtained from banking sources required to report suspicious activity, apparently triggered by Spitzer himself when he attempted to get his name removed from a series of transactions. It had nothing to do with FISA or terrorism monitoring. It was a local banking fraud investigation which had no idea what the money was going for until they determined that the account to which Spitzer's transfers were going was the account of a prostitution ring. While Spitzer had plenty of enemies, the laws under which his activities were discovered are the same laws he used to prosecute others.

Do you not for a moment think that the Federal agencies were trackinmg his movements knowing that if caught he will have a huge political impact.

I admit I'm a cynic, but apparently not as big a cynic as you.
No, I don't think that. Based on what's been disclosed so far, he might never have been caught had he not tried to cover his tracks & tickled the bank fraud detector's radar in the process. I, for the moment, assume that the actual facts & justifications surrounding the process leading to the wiretaps will at some point be disclosed in open court at which time the cynics among us can choose whether to believe or not.