Once again, we see that a vehemently authoritarian moralizer is secretly a libertarian, at least in regards to his own rights.
It’s always other people’s freedom that needs to be curtailed.
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Maybe he is only considering eight year attorneys general.
Wow.
I’ve never seen anything close to libertarian with this guy.
He’s the ultimate authoritarian.
Gee, maybe he’s just a hypocrite.
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An authoritarian. An elitist. A thug. Just the kind of guy Rudy Rummel has warned us about.
Sex is just a distraction from the bigger criminal picture. What’s up with the international racketeering, human trafficking and money laundering behind “The Emperor’s Club” and the elite who conspire to live among us above the law?
Who is #8, or #7? Rupert? Pinch? Murtha? Reid? Clinton? Olbermann? Who are the others? The public paid to produce this information. The FBI has it. The names and the gender of the providers. Let’s get ALL the names of all Johns and Jills — all the names of those who make rules for us which are not to apply to them.
It’s not about sex. It’s about lies, illegal money and psychopaths in powerful places enabled and emboldened by the vestiges of power that surround them. Power that we entrusted to them.
It has more to do with Tony Rezko than Heidi Fleiss. The international money is the real game here; that and the shameless inner circle, cryptic elite network and corrupting penetration of high governmental office.
We forget that even a murderer can hide behind a liar. Psychopaths in public office are the worst. We should hunt them like a rat loosed in a child’s nursery. They are vermin of the lowest order; dangerous in every way. Our nation’s founders understood this implicitly.
Remember what Rummel’s data teach.
Oh, you’re just jealous that you can’t afford $5000 an hour escorts.
I mean David Vitter resigned his Senate seat after he was caught visiting hookers, right? And Larry Craig resigned his Senate seat after he was caught for solicitation of gay sex in a bathroom, right? So Spitzer has to go, right?
So Spitzer has to go, right?
why, yes, yes he does.
everyone’s writing his epitaph, in their own way.
Lifestyle doesn’t determine whether one is libertarian or not.
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new yorkers are in a hanging mood
So Spitzer has to go, right?
Oh, please please please let him stay. The thought of just how ticked off HRC must be that she can’t criticize Spitzer without looking like an epic hypocrite just has me absolutely giddy–as does the thought of her continuing to twitch in silent rage while Spitzer stalls. If he hasn’t resigned by two days from now, a lot of New York state legislators are going to be getting a quiet message: get rid of Spitzer now or go to the top of Lady MacBubba’s enemies list. The end for Spitzer will come quickly after that.
Libertarian? How about libertine
And MikeCA, the problem with the others is that they didn’t prosecute call-girl rings. Larry Craig was(is?) a closet case, William Jefferson Clinton – well the longer he stays in office the better it is for us on the Republican side.
Spitzer is worse than a hypocrite, and I hope that he doesn’t resign (although as I write FoxNews is reporting that his resignation is “imminent”. ) Democrats are showing themselves to be just as corrupt as they’ve always been, making the task of those with “R”s behind their names just a wee bit easier this election.
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Oops! Freudian slip there. I was referring to the guy who keeps his cash on ice – William Jefferson – not the guy who can’t keep his pants up.
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M. Scott,
why can’t HRC criticize Spitzer?
I actually give credit to Spitzer for resigning promptly, and not trying to brazen the thing out — ahem, like some other folks have done in the past. That leads to a lotta collateral damage.
The man is only 48. He did a stupid thing (or lead a stupid lifestyle), but it is not irrevocable. I do hope he heals his family wounds, and spends a few years squaring himself away.
I think the American people do forgive, if you fess up squarely, and let time work its magic.
Who knows? Maybe, we’ll hear from him again in 5-10 years.
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HankB
I think Spitzer showed a lot of class by resigning quickly. Several other high profile politicians, such as David Vitter and Larry Craig, have not.
quick turnaround, mikeca. what changed your mind?
I too think Spitzer showed a lot of class by resigning quickly. Several other high profile politicians, such as Bill Clinton and William Jefferson, have not.
I think that prostitution laws are silly. They are unenforceable. It is a waste of law enforcement resources to try to enforce them.
Who a politician’s sex partners are should be a private matter between the politician and those partners (assuming they are all consenting adults). If money changes hands voluntarily, that should be a private matter also.
In the US though, some people seem to think that a politician’s sex life should be the public business. Politicians are expected to live up to certain moral standards, which are largely unrealistic. Spitzer, when he was caught red handed, decided to resign rather than face the public ridicule. Bill Clinton choose not to resign and his opponents completely overplayed their hand by trying to impeach him for it.
William Jefferson is a whole different story, which has nothing to do with sex, and I really don’t understand why he is not in jail.
but this case wasn’t exactly about sex. if it were, i might be persuaded to agree.
this time around its prostitution, not sex. at the rates he paid these were not crack hoes but, very possibly, sex workers for organised crime. and now they’ve got his credit card #s and evidence that can ruin him.
you don’t think thats the kind of leverage that gets results?
lets see… he closed down at least 2 prostitution rings. were they competitors to his favored ring? was he building their business, at their bidding? was that what the people of new york paid him to do?
and then you have what he may wind up being charged with – moving monies through shell companies. you and i couldn’t do that, but we’re to accept the governor as above the law?
no. not for one fucking minute. we are supposed to be equal before the law, and if you don’t uphold that you can kiss my ass.
shitcan this talk about this being merely about sex. its unseemly and, frankly, idiotic, shallow, dishonest.
Uriah Heep. I don’t mean the band.
Google it.
the US though, some people seem to think that a politician’s sex life should be the public business.
What about a politician’s grand jury testimony?
It’s a nontrivial concern. When a married politician, esp. a President, is
committing adultery and lying under oath about it, it creates a potential national security problem because he can then be blackmailed; there is all sorts of precedent for this happening. Also, having an affair with a subordinate is all kinds of wrong.
Clinton should have resigned. He had less class than Eliot Spitzer or Richard NIxon.
You are naive if you believe that many leaders do not have mistresses and affairs. Kennedy had mistresses and affairs. Eisenhower may or may not of had a mistress. Franklin D. Roosevelt had a mistress.
Many current politicians have divorced their wifes and shortly after remarried. Are are you so naive as to believe they were not having an affair before they divorced?
As for the legal charges for hiding the money transfers, it is a real stretch to apply these laws to a man trying to hid the transfers from his wife. If hiding your expenses from your wife is money laundering, then we need to build a lot more prisons.
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