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orichalcum at 03:39pm on 10/03/2008 under politics
orichalcum at 03:39pm on 10/03/2008 under politicsEliot Spitzer, Governor of New York, has been implicated as a client in the high-end Emperors' Club VIP prostitution ring.
Once again, I am tempted to ask, "how can smart politicians be this stupid?" Look, okay, I can accept that people may not have satisfying sexual lives with their spouses but nevertheless want to stay married to them. I can accept that people may have very different ideas about the morality of adultery than I do.
But is it really worth risking your entire professional career to have some presumably excellent sex? I don't know; maybe I'm just not aware of how erotically talented 21-year-old interns or expensive escorts or random guys in Minnesota bathroom stalls are. Maybe I'm missing out. Maybe I don't have a hyper-alpha male instinct of wanting to sleep with as many people as possible as frequently as possible.
But this is just Dumb. I probably lose more respect for Spitzer over this particular incident, as well, than I even did for Bill Clinton back in the Lewinsky scandal. B. Clinton was a known womanizer and I lost respect for him because he didn't have self-control and he helped drag the country into a long tawdry mess.
But Spitzer has run his career as being Mr. Clean, the ethics reform guy, the anti-white-collar crime guy who _prosecuted several major prostitution rings._ It saddens me to discover that much of that was apparently a facade, a case of rules applying to other people.
OTOH, all the evidence should provide some nice comparative fodder for my book.
Once again, I am tempted to ask, "how can smart politicians be this stupid?" Look, okay, I can accept that people may not have satisfying sexual lives with their spouses but nevertheless want to stay married to them. I can accept that people may have very different ideas about the morality of adultery than I do.
But is it really worth risking your entire professional career to have some presumably excellent sex? I don't know; maybe I'm just not aware of how erotically talented 21-year-old interns or expensive escorts or random guys in Minnesota bathroom stalls are. Maybe I'm missing out. Maybe I don't have a hyper-alpha male instinct of wanting to sleep with as many people as possible as frequently as possible.
But this is just Dumb. I probably lose more respect for Spitzer over this particular incident, as well, than I even did for Bill Clinton back in the Lewinsky scandal. B. Clinton was a known womanizer and I lost respect for him because he didn't have self-control and he helped drag the country into a long tawdry mess.
But Spitzer has run his career as being Mr. Clean, the ethics reform guy, the anti-white-collar crime guy who _prosecuted several major prostitution rings._ It saddens me to discover that much of that was apparently a facade, a case of rules applying to other people.
OTOH, all the evidence should provide some nice comparative fodder for my book.
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