Nothing bugs us more than being wrong. When Bill Clinton, he of the pickup truck with a rug in the bed, messed around with an intern many people believed it was perfectly in character. When Wilt Chamberlain bragged about sleeping with 20,000 women, he was considered a stallion of incredible stamina. When a French president was found to have had a long-term mistress, it was dismissed as a cultural thing. But when a dogged prosecuter, now a "clean Gene" governor, is found dallying with prostitutes, we can't deal with it. He has to go because he was not the person we thought we knew.
I feel for him. When husbands and wives aren't doing well, their sex drives don't go into hibernation. They do dumb things that they later regret. We all have stories where infidelity has tragically altered the lives of friends or our own families. Now Eliot Spitzer will be joining the crowd of those whose libido has ruined them.
Spitzer's actions do more actual damage to his marriage than to New York State. Many leaders have had personal issues but still accomplished great things. There's no reason to believe that he could not continue to perform his job. Yet, he's got to be punished because he turned out to be a different person than the one we voted for. Disappointment has delivered its verdict.
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His wife looked comatose...
I'm not sure of the need for his resignation. Throughout his career he's been a bit of a prig. On the other side of the coin, he's done nothing that many others haven't done before him.
I never had a problem with President Clinton's daliances. I drew the line when he lied about them.
That's a really good point. It isn't just what he did, but the notion that he isn't really who folks voted for.
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