Spitzer BS

 Ya’ll know what’s going on so I’ll pass on the news article itself. What I find interesting is how the left jumped all over the rest-room toe-tapping Republican but they play down this incident. Some interesting comments from DailyKos:

So, if Spitzer were caught speeding (0 / 0)

he’d have to resign? That is breaking the law.

What if he were caught smoking a joint? Resign?

Piloting a motorboat drunk? Automatic resignation?

by dclawyer06 on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 02:13:00 PM PDT

Disagree (0 / 0)

Who was the victim here? I don’t think guys should cheat on their wives but how is it our business?

Also, Spitzer is a progressive democrat; he doesn’t campaign as a holier-than-thou bible thumper so the hypocrisy charge doesn’t make sense(to me).

by dclawyer06 on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 02:10:01 PM PDT

#1- I hope this blows up in the Repugs’s faces, because they have done far worse and THEY are the ones that need to resign.
#2- Let’s dig through this and find out the real story, before it becomes a reprise of the Alabama governor in jail story. Expose the players. I bet the trail will lead right back to the White House.

Illegitimus non carborundum

by azureblue on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 09:17:30 PM PDT

At least one voice of reason over there:

By all accounts, his own staff leaked (0 / 0)

the damaging info. He is such an abrasive, self-righteous crusader, that most Democrats here in the Empire State wanted him gone months before this was leaked.

And don’t give us the crap about the Repugs being just as bad or worse. That doesn’t cut it. What kind of example do we set if we tolerate this kind of behavior? The Repugs can be pigs, but shouldn’t we set a higher standard?

by mercedes99 on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 09:23:56 PM PDT

At this point we can say all politicians can be pigs. I think all of us need to have high standards for all public servants regardless of political affiliation.  This is not an us vs them issue.