the more accomplished people who did follow the rules, such as Hillary Clinton.

Funniest. Comment. Ever!
Ms. Hillary Cattle-Futures, illegal FBI files, I “lost” the Rose Law firm records until after the statute of limitations ran out on any crimes, lied when I fired the White House Travel office staff Diane Rodham Clinton…that rule follower?
You may have a future in comedy, Han!

I agree with mikeadamson. I can give someone some slack on his personnel life because we do not know the full story between himself and his wife. The papers are know saying this type of behavoir has been going on for at least 6 years. If that is the case, then to put yourself out there as the one who will attack sleaze is the highest form of hypocrisy or maybe arrogance. Either way it is time for him to go……

Let’s ask Spitzer’s three daughters if this is no big deal.

Can you even imagine how these kids are feeling right about now? What a mess. My heart goes out to his family.

If this was George Pataki the MSM and Democrats would have been screaming. The hypocrisy on the left has no limits.

Spitzer’s a pig, he’s been a train wreck since he took office.

What I find galling is that Spitzer came to power as Mr. Clean, the man tough on sleaze. It’s not the act that matters so much but the hypocrisy, the same hypocrisy that Senator Craig demonstrated.

I’ll give someone some slack over private matters but not when that someone makes private matters a key plank in their own political platform. I’d send Spitzer packing if it was up to me.

I haven’t seen a single MSM report yet that mentions he is a Democrat.

Knee jerk much?

NY Times:

Mr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat, today made a brief public appearance during which he apologized for his behavior, and described it as a “private matter.” He did not address his political future.

That statement would carry more weight if people on your side didnt insult in a much more disgusting manner the more accomplished people who did follow the rules, such as Hillary Clinton.

H,

An odd choice of heroes to be sure. Perhaps if you had used something less lofty than the word “accomplished” to describe the former first lady, your comment wouldn’t result in as many snide guffaws from the rest of us.

I notice that in reciting her CV you avoided a number of her less savory endeavors (the bogus cattle futures trading account, the 900 plus illicitly garnered FBI files on GOP “enemies”, and those pesky Rose Law Firm billing records, to name just a few). There’s little point in rehashing any of those details, but I couldn’t have you thinking that your oversight had been overlooked.

Besides, lately there seems to be an ever-widening disparity between the experiences and accomplishments she has claimed and the reality of situations past, all duly noted. She may have regarded herself as a co-president, and her “dutiful” husband has endorsed her claim, but the facts say differently.

As for that speech in China you’ve pointed to, let me remind you that while the Chinese communist regime may have felt some small embarrassment at her global remarks, the long range MIRV guidance and nuclear warhead technology transferred by her husband in exchange for reelection campaign contributions more than eased their pain. The one child per couple rule is still rigidly enforced, and the “unofficial” slaughter of female babies continues largely unabated… despite Hillary’s faux feminist sermon.

Hillary Clinton has shown herself to be at least as corrupted by a lust for power as her discredited and patently dishonorable husband. You just might want to re-examine those “rules” you claim she’s been following so fervently. Those “rules” and St. Hillary are making you look unnecessarily foolish.

So you go about proving my point that even if you do about as well as a person can in life, you still get accused of not having integrity, virtue and morality.

So what is the difference then if become a whore or a politician who spends a lifetime working to help others? According to your warped view of the world, no difference.

For all of Hillary’w failings, both of you make her look good as a decent human being. Congrats to you.

Poor thing.

She is going to make quite a bit from this though. You know that, right?

That statement would carry more weight if people on your side didnt insult in a much more disgusting manner the more accomplished people who did follow the rules, such as Hillary Clinton.

You can state (or pretend) that the whore is lacking in integrity, virtue and morality. But then you better give the appropriate compliments to people like Hillary, instead of throwing those labels around so loosely.

H,

Drudge linked to Spitzer’s adulterous call girl’s myspace page. In her bio you’ll find the following:

When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless.

It’s really about trust, something my past has made very difficult for me to feel.

Now I know every father’s dream is for his daughter to leave home at 17 and become a high priced whore.

Family issues like the one Spitzer’s behavior results in, contribute to these type of things.

I happen to believe she means well. I think it is impossible to carry all of the burdens and wishes of your party and square them daily, of those you wish to represent.

The democrat party has factions and each have a varied view of politics.

H,

Again, I would agree… up to a point. And to prove it, I’m happy to point out that the very same could, and should, be said of Mr. Bush.

And when I can find the extra time, I’ll be glad to go back and dig up some of your own more virulent comments directed at the President and his administration, just to show how fair-minded and equitable those of us on/in the Right can be.

So you see? I have demonstrated that even the most accoplished can suffer the scorn of your bitter hatred and moral rightousness, regardless if they are an accomplished hero or a common whore.

They are all the same to you judgemental phonies.

Virtue: According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus) signifies manliness or courage. Taken in its widest sense virtue refers to excellence, just as vice, its contrary, denotes the absence of such.

It is “habitual excellence”. It is something practiced at all times. The virtue of perseverance is needed for all and any virtue since it is a habit of character and must be used continuously in order for any person to maintain oneself in virtue.

Hillary Rodham attracted national attention in 1969 when she delivered an address as the first student to speak at commencement exercises for Wellesley College. She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973.

She was later named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991.

As First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain approval by the U.S. Congress in 1994, but in 1997 she helped establish the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

After moving to New York, Clinton was elected as senator for New York State in 2000; this was the first time an American First Lady ran for public office and she is the first female senator from that state.

Clinton became the first woman in U.S. history to win a statewide presidential party primary.

She was the first First Lady to hold a post-graduate degree[119] and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House.[120] She was also the first to take up an office in the West Wing of the White House:[49] the First Lady usually stays in the East Wing. She is regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history, save for Eleanor Roosevelt.

Morality: In its first descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong, whether by society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience.

She also found refuge in a prayer group of The Fellowship that featured many wives of conservative Washington figures.[126][127] Triggered in part by the death of her father in April 1993, she publicly sought to find a synthesis of Methodist teachings, liberal religious political philosophy, and Tikkun editor Michael Lerner’s “politics of meaning” to overcome what she saw as America’s “sleeping sickness of the soul” and that would lead to a willingness “to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the twentieth century, moving into a new millennium.

Hillary Clinton traveled to 79 countries during this time,[148] breaking the mark for most-travelled First Lady held by Pat Nixon.[149] In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in the People’s Republic of China itself,[150] declaring “that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights”[150] and resisting Chinese pressure to soften her remarks.[148] She was one of the most prominent international figures at the time to speak out against the treatment of Afghan women by the Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.[151][152] She helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative sponsored by the United States to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.[153]

On phony accusations:

White-water-

After several Independent Counsels investigated, a final report was issued in 2000 which stated that there was insufficient evidence that either Clinton had engaged in criminal wrongdoing.

Travel gate -

The 2000 final Independent Counsel report found no substantial or credible evidence that Hillary Clinton had any role or showed any misconduct in the matter.

Lewinsky -

After the evidence of President Clinton’s encounters with Lewinsky became incontrovertible and he admitted to her his unfaithful behavior, she issued a public statement reaffirming her commitment to their marriage,[178] but privately was reported to be furious at him[179] and was unsure if she wanted to stay in the marriage.[180]

She stayed with her husband, as the bible commands.

H,

Well said! Consider yourself rhetorically redeemed. At least for now…

I don’t agree with you on the nobility of Mrs. Clinton’s motives, although I suspect we might also differ on what the definition of nobility is. And I would argue that a candidate’s motive are certainly a fair target for voters to exam in careful detail, rather than dismissing the whole questio of motives as you suggest.

Those disagreements aside, I think your assessment of the state of affairs within the Democrat party is pretty accurate. If anything, you understate the tenuous fractiousness of it. The foolishness of the Kerry nomination and subsequent crawling into bed with George Soros and the MoveOn.org crowd has come back to haunt the Democrats in a big way.

Hillary’s two biggest problems consist in first, trying to accord herself credit for what she would have us believe are her husbands successes (whatever those may be?!) while avoiding any responsibility for his failures, and second trying to bridge the ever-widening gap within the party between regular Democrats and radical leftwing “progressives” who have all but hijacked the party.

Republican shocked to find

men have sex with women.