So what? Who really cares about a person's sex life as long as the public figure in question is not a hypocrite. Spitzer is good for New York and should not resign.

Are you kidding me? Prosecuting prostitute rings while using one at the same time in not hypocritical? Only in American politics...

The critical difference with Spitzer and the other mentioned Vitter and Craig is that they are Republicans. I smell a possible connection with the DOJ, selective prosecutions (GA anyone?) and the current state of US Attorneys. We must assume the only ones left at Justice are the corrupt ones. Wow, to take down a Dem. Gov. of New York before November would be sweet indeed. I await tough investigative reporting from the boyz. (and "gals). NOT.

How lovely to see these hypocrites brought down regardless of what side of the isle they may sit.Spitizer is an authoritarian fanatic whose tyrannical and grandiose behavior clothed in "law & order is the very mindset has dropped America in the international garbage can. A close call. A wolf in sheep's clothing. Good thing they got him before he ran for national office.

What a total Moron, the only thing he could have done that was worse would be get caught with a boy. This country is done, I fear.

The straight and narrow path is often long, and difficult, I'd forgive Spitzer his indiscretion on condition that he put his contrition regarding the whole situation in writing, similarly sign an agreement to forswear further such activities, and finally, put it to the voters as to whether he should be allowed to keep his job. Then, if his family forgives him, and the voters let him stay in office, then he could potentially continue in office.

I don't like that he was caught by a wire-tap. That smacks of the very reasons that this subject should be discussed more in the media. These warrantless wire taps aren't to save us from 'sleeper cells'; they are to take down political enemies. How sad that rather than being outraged about the tap, people are fanning themselves and opening their hymnals and behaving in exactly the holier than thou manner for which Spitzer is evidently famous. I felt the same way about the Larry Craig thing, in that I don't want tax payer money spent to pay cops to nab 'pervert fags' for hooking up in the airport bathroom. Don't forget, folks, that this wasn't a cop that wandered in on two guys 69-ing - it was a sting operation. Where are your values? Or are you so convinced that this kind of thing can never reach into your own life that you just feel safe responding in the way your TV pundits and editorializing 'journalists' tell you? Frankly, I'm uncomfortable - but America makes me feel that way quite often. Go watch 'The Little Foxes', a Lillian Hellman play that nicely spotlights the fact that complacent citizens are just as much the problem as the people who connive actively for power.

It's about time the self-named "Steamroller" has shown his hypocrisy. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned for more. How ironic that Spitzer's favorite means of catching people, wiretap, was used on him. Next to fall hopefully will be his buddy, Andrew Cuomo. I'd like to know whan will these Stepford political wives decided to let their husbands go it alone before the cameras.

Bert: How do you know it was a warrantless wire tap? Wait, you dont...

Why is this such a big deal? Was he actively pretending to fight prostitution?

*scratches Spitzer off the list of potential Democratic running mates*

Here's a crazy idea... We all know that Spitzer had made himself Public Enemy #1 to the PTB's of Wall Street and corporate America. What if they simply got sick of his crap and rang the Pooh Bah Phone to there "Fix-it" man? The Cleaner. The Wolf. The Man with the Plan. What if they decided to pull him into a "back room" and squeeze his balls until he accepted an offer he couldn't refuse? Something like... "Ok... look here Mr Eagle Scout, either you get caught with "Kristin" or somebody in your family has an "unfortunate" accident." They can't assassinate everyone they hate after all ... can they?

Of the many elements to dislike in this whole affair, the part that hasn't been commented upon yet is the author's take. Ms. Mencimer leads the article not with any comment on the objective wrong Mr. Spitzer committed. In Ms. Mencimer's view, it was only poor judgment because Mr. Spitzer had made powerful enemies. Cheating on your wife is an immoral act even if not committed by a powerful politician or caught on tape.

Sad day

Vitter? What about Dick Cheney? And Randall Tobias who already resigned over this...and others....the DC Madam scandal is much bigger then this one.

But the real story is the total media blackout, except for WMReports (and The David Letterman Show).

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_gustav_w_070524_dc_madam_scandal_wid.htm

I am still laughing my ass off..Eliot spitser paying $5000 for an hour with a hooker? Holy crap,, Holy crap holy crap,,

I really believed in this guy. He was one of the only ones who went after the Bastards Who Stole Our Money!!!!!

Yet another time when I wish people would think more like me.... I could give a rats ass if he was going to a prostitute- He Was Protecting My Money!!!!

How sad that rather than being outraged about the tap, people are fanning themselves and opening their hymnals and behaving in exactly the holier than thou manner for which Spitzer is evidently famous. Anyhow, I added it to my blog at **** PositiveCupid.com **** , which has become the #1 dating&support community serving herpes, hpv, hiv or other STD people in the world. We worry for her very much.

Jim Guinnessey did you know prostitution is illegal? Do you have morals or values? If he can betray his wife and family then why wouldn't he betray New Yorkers. He needs to be fired and his wife needs to divorce his sorry butt.

Spitzer was unbelievably stupid. Buy why was this a FEDERAL wiretap issue? Stinks a bit, I think. Not to coddle Spitzer, however; by this time anybody in politics in this country ought to know enough to keep it in his pants. If he hadn't figured that out by now, he deserves the fruit of his ignorance.

While I have little sympathy for Spitzer getting his brains stuck in his zipper, I do feel for his family. The man did do some good work though - especially before being elected governor. Let's remember him for that, rather than his lack of good judgement.

Of course if what Jimmy says is true...at $5000/hour, maybe this prostitute comes with legal advice/service too?

1 last question...whose line was being wire-tapped? The madam's or Spitzer's?

$4000 to get laid? I'm sorry, I have try to make sence out of that before I can even begin to comment further.

Maybe this was undercover work. Maybe it was on top of the sheets.

I looked at the pricing of the girls at the Emporers Club
31,000. a day!!! Wonder if I could have booked 10 minutes. Wonder if you finish early, is it fully earned?

Dustin: You got it right. The man was on our side - he went after big busine$$. What a shame to watch him (and whatever future he might have had) go down in flames.

What's even more interesting is that the wire tap was ordered after Spitzer's bank notified the feds that money was being moved in and out of accounts. I certainly don't condone this behavior, but it is certainly more concerning to me that under the Patriot Act, our own banks are also watching our every move. I understand if this money is being moved over seas, etc., but this is somewhat very disturbing.

I can see most of the people who responded to the Spitzer affair. haven't been following politics very long (I mean for years and years). It is not the act but the self righteous rabid attacks on others that have been caught doing the very thing he has prosecuted others for in the past. All the while trying to project an air of being above such awful and degrading actions. A person who wallows in the moral decaying society we seem to have been and still are creating for ourselves in this country, shouldn't be suprized when it come back around to bite him are her in the rear. After being so above it all and better than the common people he had crushed in the past. Mr, Spitzer should resign, end of story. I'm sure there will be many who think this is no big thing at all. project this same thing on different public figures with different political and business connections, and see how many different reactions you get. depends on how you lean. and how good your morally centered.

Spitzer put ho's in jail . He deserves to go to jail himself so he can develop some empathy for the ho's he put in jail. Actually, the IRS is after him for money laundering for the mob. He did violate the Man act, amongst other crimes. Spitzer has pissed off the legislature with his arrogance. Even the Democrats will join in, they will bring the feathers, the GOP, the tar, and I will bring the rail, and he will be rode out of town.

Call me dumb, but, have we been furnished any proof that Eliot Spitzer did anything at all? Let's see the bank records, and lets hear the phone call taps. I want to see the evidence before I decide anything. So far I've only been told what to think by the NYT and various TV pundits. Gosh, so far, they haven't even been able to keep those stories straight.

Framed?

I'd like to know what a $5,000.00 dollar prostitute gives you, that you can't get from a $300.00 one?

Bill had affairs and Spitzer paid for his affairs. Progressive women need to give their men some slack on having affairs, like the men that we admire so much. Prostitution is good for women and for man. At least that is what Dr. Freud says and real Progressives. These radical feminists that are against prostitution are really right wing nuts.

According to the report, it was the way that he moved money around his accounts that tipped off Treasury. Who are monitoring all of our financial transactions to locate and identify individuals who are funneling money to terrorists. When anyones' activities become suspect, they automatically are investigated for all criminal activities. I believe that under this law, justified by the need to fight terrorism, that 99.9% of prosecutions will be for totally unrelated crimes.

No one is perfect that is why we need to do away with political parties. They are all corruptible. I want a benevolent despot aka dictator who loves us like Hugo Chavez. Screw the rest!

I agree. Since when do we believe what the media feeds us? There's more to this than meets the eye! I'm sure they expect the U.S. public to respond with glee at yet another "hated politician" biting the dust, laugh and gloat at the "hypocrisy" of it all... our government and our so called leaders are devious liars... be wise with how quick you jump onto this wagon.

What a sorry lot of commentary for the most part. Can't a "good guy" get laid? He was so obviously set up as payback. Politics in this country are CORRUPT just as they are in the other 3rd world countries. (Yes, we're one of those now with everything in the good ole USA in decline...thanks G.W. Bush). All of the moralizing by critics of Spitzer is simply laughable. The man is human and to err is human. All judges please cease judging lest ye be judged.

ARROGANCE...thy name is Spitzer. What a fool to piss off Hank Greenburg and Dick Grasso. I'll bet one or both of them paid for the investigators who brought down this holier-than-thou nutjob.

Wow! For someone, ANYONE who advanced one's political career by going after high-profile bad guys, esp. people with tons of money, to cheat on a spouse by hiring executive prostitutes is the best example of what the Greeks called 'hubris'.
Every hero has a fatal flaw and this quite obviously is his.

My reaction is the same I had about Bill Clinton's extremely poor judgment in these matters: what a moron! But Spitzer had to quit because he's a sanctimonious idiot to boot.

The truth is:

The whores got paid
His wife got screwed.

Well, as long as the NRA has their Uzis what's the dif? If Sptizer is to be lynched as a hypocrite, then go to the state houses in every state and the big daddy of all hypocrites--the US government. They usually screw the public, but will settle for anything that's warm. Sometimes it doesn't have to be warm--they have a few graverobbers! When the massacre is over, let's recount the population. Probably only undocumented aliens will be left. Impeach the criminals Bush and Cheney for making the Constitution null and void. Otherwise, I don't give a damn what the criminals do!

Now that Eliot Spitzer has resigned, perhaps we can go on to other, more important, matters--like congratulating the first black governor of New York. Of course, the jackals of Wall Street want to keep having their fun with this, but it doesn't serve to whitewash their corporate buddies that Spitzer took down.

Well, as long as the NRA has their Uzis what's the dif? If Sptizer is to be lynched as a hypocrite, then go to the state houses in every state and the big daddy of all hypocrites--the US government. They usually screw the public, but will settle for anything that's warm. Sometimes it doesn't have to be warm--they have a few graverobbers! When the massacre is over, let's recount the population. Probably only undocumented aliens will be left. Impeach the criminals Bush and Cheney for making the Constitution null and void. Otherwise, I don't give a damn what the criminals do!

Seen from Europe, this affair has no public importance. It doesn't concern politics. People can be faithful or not, be single, maried or divorce while in office, and at the same time the same people can do a good job while in office. Mitterrand in his times had an affair with a journalist, had a daughter out of mariage, the press knew, so did the citizens, and there was no feeling of scandal. To me the whole story is "tittytainment" just good for people magazines.

The hypocrisy of this guy was what brought him down so hard. I could care less about him, but the teenage daughters are the ones this will hurt most.

Right on Paul Miller!

Don't the Federales have more important things to worry about?

I agree with Paul Miller. Also, this is not only about Spitzer's questionable ethics. The machinations which occurred to bring him down deserve infinite scrutiny.

For anyone who still believes the only issue of relevance is the "elicit" sex, check out this article by Dave Lindorff.

Spitzer Bust Provides A Warning Regarding NSA Spying by Dave Lindorff

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_dave_lin_080311_spitzer_bust_provide.htm

Are you people kidding me? Having an affair is one thing...immoral, but not necessarily illegal. PROSTITUTION IS ILLEGAL. He committed a crime. When he paid for prostitution across state lines, it became a FEDERAL crime. Thus the legitimate use of a WARRANTED federal wiretap. This isn't the warrantless crap that Bush has been pandering. This is the real deal. As much as I was a fan of the man's work, his career is rightfully over.

My main issue with this story is that the Republicans were ready to impeach him, yet they refuse to impeach CHENEY or BUSH? Spitzer broke the law and did something incredibly assinine and hypocritical. However, he's not exactly the first politician to hire a prostitute and/or be involved in a sex scandal and what he did doesn't put the country in danger.

Aside from that, I found the following comment interesting:

Vitter? What about Dick Cheney? And Randall Tobias who already resigned over this...and others....the DC Madam scandal is much bigger then this one.

But the real story is the total media blackout, except for WMReports (and The David Letterman Show).

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_gustav_w_070524_dc_madam_scandal_wid.htm

Prostitution is good. The girls like it and so does the Eliots. Dr. Freud says that it is good. Go out with a ho tonight. If the wife complains, divorce the right wing nut. Eliot's wife knew about it for the last 10 years. It was fine with her because she is a true Progressive. Progressive women understand this issue of prostitution. The Russian women are great.

Classic USA. On one hand we have a state gov. who sleeps with a prostitute and his butt is out of office faster than a speeding bullet, on the other hand we have a president who has virtually nullified the constitution, brought us into war based on lies, veto's bills designed to eliminate torture.... the list goes on and on. Where is the public outcry on these issues people!!

He should have been fired and not allowed to RESIGN. He is a hypocrit and should be sent to jail. Those whore rings make loads of money illegally. It's the same as drug rings. They should be closed down but they won't because they cater to politicians.

Yes, I agree. The real issue is how was this information gathered. How come we don't hear about #1 thru #8, and for that matter what about the next 11?

By the way, where are those missing White House emails for the time period when the V.P. was exposing and destroying a valuable covert CIA asset working to reveal real weapons of mass destruction in hostile hands?

Isn't that treason during wartime?

How about Rove turning the government into a branch of the Republican Party? And orchestrating massive voting machine fraud, at the same time firing career district attorneys for prosecuting Republicans!

There is an endless supply of hipocracey over the last 7 years.

When Bush speaks, believe the opposite.

A good movie reference is Will Smith in "Enemy of the State"

Book reference, reread 1984 by George Orwell

[Lobotomies for Republicans,
It's the law!] Waterboarding for everyone else.

dlw

Spitz broke the law repeatedly. Deserves jail just like anyone else. Guaranteed he expensed some of those trysts with taxpayers money. Who trusts a man who busts people for the same crimes he is committing? Wife get out now before AIDS gets you!!!

Governor has AIDS - news at 11:00 pm!

Governor goes wacky and lets illegal immigrants drive him to the hooker's crib.

Spitzface gets a new job opening a Mexican club giving massages by hookers in the back. YAYAYAYAY

We all cheered on the trading floor. He never won a case against any trader. He rode the anti big business wave and turned the public against the street. HE NEVER WON A SINGLE CASE. He bullied and bashed. Rot in Hell

There's something Hoover-esque about the Feds listening in on a guy planning to have sex; reminds me of a peeping Tom. And $5,500 per HOUR for a pavement princess, now that's a crime. Where's Wal-Mart when you need them?

He confessed on public television. Doesn't that count as evidence?

I guess the Mayor thought he was like the President and vice-President and could get away with breaking the law.
If people don't wake up, stop following and believing in corporate media, we're all doomed. They want to give AT&T and Verizon retro-active immunity for spying on us? Fine, then we should boycott their services, and the services of any company that cooperates with this agenda. The odds of dying in a terrorist attack today, in the U.S., are 40,000 to one. Chances of dying of a heart attack? 350 to one. Yet, we spend more than the rest of the world combined on making bombs and biological agents and chemical weapons, yet we're the only country where there is not a form of universal medical care!! We're all concerned about the Mayor's indiscretions..well, who here hasn't made a bad choice, a stupid choice, a "sinful" choice before? What we should be concentrating on is our lack of privacy. Because everyone does make mistakes, and when one's every phone call, every web search, every e-mail is pored over by these secret agencies, then there is no longer any privacy for anyone--but only certain people are punished. Do you think anything at all would happen to Bush or Cheney if they were caught in a similar position?? Of course not. They would claim that they were immune from that, as well--Executive Priveledge, you know..when it's convenient. When it's not convenient, then Cheney isn't even part of the Executive Branch!!! But, despite the fact that these two (Cheney and Bush) lied to us, bombed a defenseless country to smithereens (what was the purpose of that? Just what it was called: to shock and awe. Who? Surely all that wasn't for Hussein? Who was mostly killed? Civilians.), gave orders to have people--many of them completely innocent, as we've now discovered--tortured, used illegal chemical weapons like white phosphorus on the people of Faluja, perhaps attempted to politicize the Justice Dept. by the firing of 9 U.S. attorneys in the middle of an administrative term, did everything in their power to prevent any investigation into 9/11, destroyed the crime scene of 9/11 by shipping the steel all the way to China to be melted down(???)threatened war against Iran, and would have bombed them if the NIE hadn't come out proving that they were not a threat, and refused to answer any questions under oath...all that, yet nothing has happened to them. They failed to protect us from the attacks of 9/11, yet act like we would be safer with them in charge! Why? Because we bombed a country that had nothing to do with 9/11--in fact, the newest Pentagon report found absolutely no ties between al-qaeda and Iraq or Saddam Hussein--despite Donald Rumsfeld saying there was "bullet-proof" evidence connecting the two. Has there been any accountability from anyone at the White House? No.

What about the MUKASEY link? One of his sworn enemies on Wall Street. The "Patriot Act"? Apparently they think all Democrats are patriots.

You know what amazes me, if you’re a pretty young girl willing to bag a horny govenor or president and make 1000+ bucks an hour by **** yourself around town oh! and become instantly famous would this put you off ??? We in Europe smile at the histerical way you guys are making this out to be the end of the world, yes he did wrong in that he was in public office of trust and being a big hippocrate Spitzer got what he deserved. Hey America wake-up no one died….Billy Kofi

Let me see if my memory serves Spitzer was an early critic of those who perpetrated the subprime mortgage gig such as Countrywide Financial, Beazer Homes, and New Century Financial,etc. whose shares soared 300% or more while real estate rose 30% and they suckered the lambs into their abattoir. Among those cheering Spitzer's fall are their Wall Street cronies above, who picked up some of the crumbs, while the lambs were fleeced and slaughtered. Whence will come the next protector of the lambs and the taxpayers, who by the way should note that the federal reserve today announced plans to use $200 billion of your money to bail out the banks,the market, investors, etc by letting them use subprime paper as collateral for obtaining your money. How much to bail out those who lost their homes and/or jobs in the fallout from their greedy (and sometimes fraudulent) practices? Zero? Oh Spitzer, Oh Spitzer how could you forsake us in our time of need. And for such a fleeting pleasure.

Stupid, it is not just about sex. There are numerous felonies involved in dealing with money and money laundering. Gov Spitzer was State Attorney General, he put other people in jail, he knew the laws, and espically laws involving money laundering. He broke the law when he shifted money around to pay what he knew was a dummy money front company. Many other questions will need to be answered, a big one, where did he quietly get well over $80000 for his over 8 years of fooling around? Did he get monies from ladies of the night? Where? More felonies are looming for Spitzer, that is why there is talk of Spitzer trying to cut a deal to stay out of jail or minimize his jail time. You do not spend time in jail for being a John with a Prostitute. Spitzer is a crook and should be looked at as a crook, not as an innocent, picked upon, poor politician, who is being forced to resign just because he is a Democrat. His defenders will soon see how stupid they are now in defending him.
It is not about sex, stupid

Correction-"Did he get monies from ladies of the night?"

Should read

Did he get money from his political campaign fund?

My sentiments entirely. No guts no glory.

Spitzer's crime has nothing to do with the Mann Act- nor is it hypocrisy or derelict morals; he has feted the cynics who wait-out every champion to self-destruct in human flaw.

Spitzer was probably being spied on by Vatican shills and the Bishop's mobsters seemingly in the way all our elected officials who haven't been following papal bull must be being spied on.
He was about to get a bill passed that would allow women the most basic of individual rights, the right to decide, the right to choose to give birth or to have an abortion.

Anna, your statement is anti-Christian. You are obviously one of those Christ hating bigoted Jews.

Steve Chapman just published an interesting column about Spitzer and prostitution in general. It is pretty funny. The link is Here.

He could have saved himself about $4,850.00 dollars, if he would have researched a little. As a fellow libertine, my quest around the world have been many. K-5, Prague, Yab Yum, Amsterdam, Lafolie 63, Berlin, and etc. I understand inflation, but no one either male or female is worth that much and hour, unless your on the Forbes 400 list, and well, we all know, it's allot more. The Funny thing is we honor those who have been in the highest offices in the land, with libraries, and buildings, and highways, for there flings, and we buy there books, and campaign for them and make donations and etc. We seem to hold them in the highest esteem, and yet the very people who go after you and others are doing the same thing themselves. What's the word for it? Stay the course, no? So go on with your conspiracy theories, and think tanks, and the general media, and Christians, throw the first stone!

I'm a lover of the U.S. Constitution, too bad it has been almost destroyed by right-wing "Christians". in a way similar to the way the German Constitution was destroyed.
I don't believe it is necessary to to "believe in" the monotheistic god. In fact it seems to be very dangerous for the world to have three religions in which the people slavishly follow the same god, a god who is obviously a victim of multiple personality disorder. The closer so-called Christians, Muslims, or Jews get to the blind acceptance of "fundamentalist" nonsense the more innocent people die and the more impossible it becomes to make our country a true democracy.

Anna dear, as Carter said in his book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" , pg 209, "...(I)n the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned, voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media..." In other words, Zionist dominate the US media. "At the same time, political leaders and news media in Europe are highly critical of Israeli policies, affecting public attitudes." "Citizens in 15 European nations, indicate that Israel was considered to be the top threat to world peace."

Steve dear, I have watched all this nonsense for years. There are a number of Jews in Israel who oppose the Zionists on the ground and good for them! When the Christian Zionists help all the people who are Jewish move to Israel (the so-called "holy land") the vicious Christians can carry out "gods will". Look it up, its called "Armageddon".
One fourth to one third of Palestinians are Christian so the Zionists are killing Christians and Muslims.
So, isn't this what I said? I don't approve of any of this idiocy Fundamentalist Christians, Jews, and Muslims are deluded and dangerous.

Anna, you are right. It is the Likud Party that is in bed with the Christian Zionists(e.g. John Hagee and Pat Robertson and others). The Christian Zionists are the greatest threat in America.

Anna and Steve, here's a simple solution to your argument. Anna you jump on the next plane to Israel, and stand in front of a bull-dozer, that's knocking down a Palestinian home, just because your not one of those Fundamentalist Jews, and Steve if your ever in San Antonio, Texas, drop by John Hagee's mega church and stand up and share your thoughts about why buying your way into heaven just won't work. Case in point, is has nothing to do with Elliot Spitzer! In the mean time, you both need to get laid, really, really bad! May I suggest a really good service, with reasonable rates!

People are sexual creatures. Their sex lives shouldn't be part of the public domain, and just because it's in federal jurisdiction doesn't change the morals any. The only real need to combat prostitution rings is the corruption involved, but if we were more enlightened and forgiving about sex, there wouldn't be this tie either.

The problem is exactly what this article says: Spitzer's image was that of being the Elliot Ness of modern day New York. There is no way the Elliot Ness of old could have brought down Capone if he were an alcoholic during prohibition, or didn't pay his taxes, and the inclinations of his were publicly known. Nor could he have held public office after doing so and it was later revealed. Given the "victimless" nature of Spitzer's crime and the good he has done regarding cleaning up corruption in the business community (not to mention being a defender of women's rights) one could argue it just isn't fair that image means so much more than the reality of his contributions and vision. But the same could be said for Katrina hitting New Orleans; it isn't fair, but it is the nature of the beast, and only a man with some serious self-destructive issues could purposely fail to take this into consideration. I'll miss him. I guess.

This talk is mostly about hypocrisy, breaking the law, etc, etc. But this really IS about sex. And about the government getting involved in an individual's sex life. Spitzer was not motivated by money or power. He was motivated by sex. And for that reason, this whole thing should be none of my business, none of your business, and certainly none of the government's business.

There are few things more private, more intrinsically personal that one's sexual desires, fantasies, and preferences. With the exception of pedophilia and incest, I think we would all be better off with a "don't ask-don't tell" policy here. It wouldn't be as much fun for us, the media, or late-night comedians, but we can survive without these recurring frenzies resulting from the "indiscretions" of some public figure or other.

We should expect hypocrisy on the subject of sex, from our politicians and everyone else. It's the nature of the beast. There's nothing about a person's character that indicates his sexual preferences, and there's nothing about his sexual preferences that indicates his character. There's a long and growing bipartisan list of episodes that have brought us much ado about nothing: Vitter, Craig, Haggard, Clinton, Gingrich, Gary Hart, etc, etc. When these scandals appear, we should all avert our eyes.

A catty sidebar: Wonder how much hair implanting he could have bought with 80 K? Might have been a longer lasting and less destructive way of assuaging a sagging male ego.

To JIMBO:
What are you talking about? The Patriot Act and "I guess they thought all Democrats were Patriots"???
The "Patriot" Act is one of the most un-Patriotic Acts or Laws to ever be passed. It was passed without most people getting a chance to read it, but because it was called "The Patriot Act" it made anyone who voted against it seem un-Patriotic. Well, torturing people, spying on American citizens, destroying the Bill of Rights (at least on the Federal level), especially the 4th amendment--these are un-Patriotic Acts~! As Ben Franklin said, those who would give up essential Liberties for temporary (or illusionary) safety, do not deserve either! As the recent Pentagon Report, which just came out this March 2008 proves, beyond a doubt, there were NO ties between Saddam and Al-Qaeda..But they didn't release this report--no, you have to specifically ask for a copy to get one. But you can bet that if it had said there were ties, it would not only have been handed out to every reporter, but they would have distributed them like frickin' Pizza Fliers!!!
Also, anyone who believes that planes flew around our skies for over 2 hours, running into buildings, on 9/11, without any military response, is an idiot if they don't realize there had to be someone on the inside--our inside--sabotaging our military response. Every other time a single plane has gone off course, there's been an F-16 up there with them within 15 minutes...but on this one day, we're to believe everything failed all at once??? Wake-UP!