Say Anything Blog

Last night I was watching pundits on Chris Matthews’ Hardball and on Larry King Tonight seeming to downplay the significance of the Spitzer sex scandal.  “This sort of thing has happened before,” James Carville said.  They said he’s just a man.  The opined about whether or not this would actually impact his ability to do his job.

We all know the media has a liberal bias, but is that bias really so pervasive that these people are going to sit around and try to exonerate a Governor who was cheating on his wife with high-priced hookers?

There is no excuse for this, and Spitzer should resign immediately.  Because this sex scandal reflects on his character (if a man will cheat on his wife he’ll cheat on anything), and such poor decision making would impact his ability to do his job.  What if, instead of being caught by law enforcement, this hooker had instead decided to blackmail Spitzer?  What if she’d gone to some special interest group with the information and they used it to manipulate Spitzer’s decisions?  How well could he serve the people of New York with that hanging over his head?

This is a man who was nicknamed “Mr. Clean.”  He rode into office as a fierce anti-corruption, clean government crusader.  The sheer hypocrisy then, in addition to the black mark on his character and the questionable position it put the office of the Governor of New York in, should be enough to demand this man’s resignation.

Immediately.  I thought Larry Craig should have resigned.  I called for Mark Foley and David Vitter to resign.  Now I’m going to hold Spitzer to the same standards I hold my own party too.

We have reached a dark day in this country when one side of the political divide is willing to look past this sort of scandal merely for the sake of partisanship.