Am I the only one who wanted Spitzer to put up a fight?

[mdmc]

I recently read Spitzer's book, Spoiling for a fight.
It seemed he was so tough when he was NYS AG, and that he couldn't do anything right as Governor.

I would have liked to see him come out and support legalizing prostitution, marijuana, gay marriage. I would like him to call the leak political assassination, the investigation politically motivated.

Go down with a fight Governor.

Was I the only one that wanted to see Spitz throw some punches?

[Stephanie]

1. It was impossible.

He's caught, there's no way around it. What motivated the investigation is another question, but he had to go.

[LakeSamish706]

3. I agree entirely with you, and the fact that he was prosecuting and sending...

people to jail for the very things he is being accused of seals his coffin.

[mdmc]

9. Why not fight it out?

What did he have to lose?

In NYS, we elected Alan Hevesi - he had to resign a couple days later. NY'ers are pretty jaded and might have supported Spitz if he had a case to make.

[Stephanie]

24. Hevesi had to resign for having his driver take his very ill wife around

People were able to empathize with him but he was forced to resign anyway because of the impropriety.

If Spitzer fought this it would just be one sordid detail after another. He has teenage daughters. He was caught red-handed. There is no career left to save.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. No. I'm glad he's going out with a degree of dignity.

Not like Vitter and Larry Craig and all those other Repukes.

[feedingfrenzy]

10. He did too much good to just be tossed out

If anyone deserved another chance, it was Spitzer.

[mdmc]

11. Welcome to DU

Spitzer was too much of a DLC'er for my taste, but I would have liked him to stand up and fight.

[feedingfrenzy]

16. Thank you. I am glad to see something in his favor

If every horny old coot in the country were fired, we would lose 80% of our best.

[bryant69]

4. Yes - you and you alone wanted him to put up a fight

Congratulations.

I have mixed feelings; but only on the grounds that he should have questioned the events that lead to him being found out.

Bryant
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[feedingfrenzy]

12. He should not have had to fight

He did too much good work.
Did the NYT have something against him?
They say that they were investigating Spitzer.

[EFerrari]

5. I wanted that, too.

But, this course is probably safer for him personally.

[onenote]

6. I'm sure there were others -- but they'd be just as wrong as you would

This isn't a fight Spitzer could win. And he wouldn't land any of his punches. He screwed up. Big time. My guess is that his number one interest is having this be over as quickly as possible and, he almost certainly hopes, without the full detail of his behavior brought out in public, causing additional pain for his wife and children.

[CTyankee]

7. Oh gawd, that's the LAST thing the Dem party needs right now!

Be gone and quickly is the best thing for him to do right now. Install the new guy who appears to be a real asset to the party and to New York. All we need is to have this thing drag out for months while McCain goes merrily about his business, whatever that is.

Also, seeing that our eventual candidate is from Spitzer's state, is doubly complicating. Add that in with the train wreck of the MI/FL delegate count and we've got real trouble.

No, thanks. There is no way the guy could have survived, given the circumstances. The pubs would beat us with that stick every day from here to November...fughettaboutit!

[feedingfrenzy]

14. Clinton survived

and Spitzer should have been allowed to finishe his term.

[CTyankee]

19. No, the cost is too dear, IMO. What if more came out than just the prostitute?

Just sayin'.

[GodlessBiker]

8. The investigation may have been politically motivated, but was the schtupping for cash?

[VP505]

13. For him to have put up a fight

would have just made him look worse and those who would have supported his effort would have also been caught up in that smear. However I would like to see someone address how his indiscretions came to light, i.e, the politics behind it, like who outed him and why. His downfall will help destroy any chance for the Dem's in his state to accomplish some of the good things Spitzer wanted to accomplish.

[Nite Owl]

15. The investigation was in all

probablity politically motivated but he was no naive sort of person, he must have known that many people were just waiting to get him on something somehow. It was incredibly dumb and arrogant for him to do this. He was caught how could he defend that? I can't. If he gave some reason that all this might not be true I could be with him but he didn't.

[mdmc]

18. He could stand up and support legalizing prostitution

He could stand up and rally the wacky left - in NYS, he might have been able to stick it out.

[slackmaster]

17. It certainly would have provided some entertainment

But it would have been hard on his family, I think.

[aquart]

20. No. You're not the only one.

But once criminal charges (no matter how completely and utterly bogus and political) were involved, he was trapped with no out.

Disgusting how many people here played into that crap.

(And yet, I'm willing to bet if they found out Obama was Client #7, they would find a way to excuse it.)

[nancyr]

21. What for?

So he can drag his wife and family through even more mud? It's lame for a hypocrite to throw punches at anyone. Sure hope the sex was worth all the pain he's inflicted on his family.

[ieoeja]

22. What you said! n/t

[Joanne98]

23. I wanted him to put up a fight. I wonder why he didn't.