The short-term well of sympathy for Eliot Spitzer around here is bone dry, but I obviously wish everyone, including Eliot, the best in the long-term, including what comes after this life. The short-and long-term sympathy wells for his family, friends, and others adversely affected, run wide and deep.

Your third paragraph is hysterical. I didn’t know Stone was one of the Supremes.

Spitzer, when AG, was an unfettered bully who could only win through intimidation, not in the courtroom:
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That’s because, contrary to his claims, he did NOT have the law on his side, only his megaphone.

In Troopergate, Spitzer, when guv, used state resources to investigate opponents for no reason — other than their status as opponents.

What was your reax when Dem operatives outed Mark Foley for much lesser items that were not even crimes, only words in e-mails?

Spitzer’s real crime was hypocrisy – something the GOP knows more than a thing or two about – but soliciting a prostitute using his OWN money is where he parted ways with the GOP sex offenders in high office who’ve been jailed and/or ‘outed’. Spitzer did much that was good for the common folk in NY, and for that he is paying a big price from the GOP/Wall Street mafia.

This was a political hit job from his arch nemesis in Florida – a man who helped get Bush into office by stopping the vote count in 2000.

The slimy GOP dirty tricks don’t sink much lower than with this guy – you all must be very proud.

I’m to the point now that I’m already sick of both sides of the aisle. It isn’t as though Hillary or Barack aren’t liars and cozeners both. It’s just that I haven’t had enough time to become disgusted by Obama yet.

I served for four years under Bush in the Navy, including as an active duty recruiter from ‘99 to ‘02. Him, I had time to get sick of. You’d think, reading my posts here, I’m a democrat. I’m not. Just an embittered conservative who remembers when the word meant small government and fiscal responsibility. Now it appears to mean Constitutional amendments to /restrict/ liberty, and sending billions of dollars in cash into a warzone to be guarded by contractors.

Par for the course, I suppose. Get a hummer in the Oval Office and it’s the worst thing anyone ever did. Kill four thousand of your own countrymen to pay back the wrong people for killing fewer than that? Patriotism!