Sex, lies and Spitzer

[Neshanic]

How do you connect Spitzer spending gobs of his own cash on hookers and his work as a prosecutor and governor? If he was a republican, the easy connection could be his vaunted family values and constant screeching about sex, and who should get it and when.

But Spitzer being a Democrat expertly set up in a sting by the very mechanisms that watch over us all, can't be taken to the morality woodshed like republicans when they are found with hookers, wide stances, underage pages, and small furry animals. So what to do..what to do...

Well the MSM , especially CNBC had a chorus of poor little Spitzer victims from his days going after them on Wall street. They said he was INTIMIDATING! Imagine that. That's all they had; he was an ass to them and threatened them. So the stretch, and by stretch we mean by spider webs across Manhattan, the call is to link Spitzer with how he wanted the moral high ground in enforcing the law against Wall Street waifs.

This is the only way that they can make any case against him, as he is a liberal Democrat that did not preach the ways of family values and morality. He was all buisness. Now of course he got laid. ALOT. I don't care if my elected official gets laid by his wife, or some chick named Babycakes, as long as that elected official is a Democrat and has a live and let live attitude, and stays out of people's bedrooms. This the republicans cannot do, and are perplexed over the results.

Spitzer should not resign, and if he does that would be really sad. He hired hookers. So fucking what.

[xchrom]

1. that pretty much mirrors my thoughts -- we loved him

for his forays into corporate crime but ''hate'' him because he busted other prostitution rings.

but as you say this was not a 'family values' freak -- not any where near it. hookers not withstanding.

he did a good thing for all of us.

oh well this will turn into a mindless flame fest.

[Muttocracy]

2. But people are calling him a hypocrite because he made a big deal of fighting prostitution

He didn't share your "none of mine or the state's business" attitude. Or regardless of what he thought personally, he did think it was his job to prosecute patrons and signed laws increasing penalties against them?

[WillowTree]

3. He knows the law better than most and he broke it.

Several, apparently.

As a prosecutor, he went after law breakers ruthlessly, as he should have. That was his job. Now I'm supposed to shed a tear because he's put himself on the other side of things? Well boo-effing-hoo. Not one scintilla of sympathy here.

[mondo joe]

4. I feel the same way. But in the end, as a practical matter, if you're governor and you're

caught in illegal activity you gotta' pay. Usually with your job.

[JackRiddler]

5. The Bushies didn't bring down Spitzer - a "large New York bank" did.

Please read this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2995172

[Neshanic]

6. Not buying that yet.

[JackRiddler]

7. Well, read it at least! nt

[Neshanic]

8. I did.

[aquart]

9. Because banks had no reason to target Spitzer and were purely impartial?

I'm sure you'll connect the dots and tell me how money going out of wealthy Spitzer's accounts were targeted as suspicious? Why do we care what the millionaire did with $40,000 or $80,000? DO WE WATCH THE SPENDING OF EVERY MILLIONAIRE? Or only rich Democrats (like Martha Stewart, for instance)?

Are we saying that the government is entitled to know every fucking thing we do?

[JackRiddler]

11. Not banks. A bank.

Of course it wasn't impartial!

His bank decided to snitch on him to the feds. They didn't do this not knowing it was him, or what the feds would do. So what was the bank thinking?

I don't get the impression you read my thread, or you might agree. It's fully compatible with the idea of DOJ corruption by the Bush regime.

[Johonny]

10. He as two big negatives

The tanking economy tends to sink all boats.

A) Spitzer hasn't been all that popular since taking over as governor. Particularly in upstate New York.

B) He paid $ 4300 for his hooker in a horrible economy. Let's face it if he had gotten a 15 $ hand job it would a scandal but not nearly as interesting. I think the over extravagance of the amount money puts people off.

So far I haven't heard a lot of support from my friends and family in New York. If he no longer has the support of the people or the party, then he should probably go.