Defending Eliot Spitzer

March 10, 2008 · Posted in Scandals 

Hey, he’s a politician who likes adult women. What a novelty after Ted Haggard and Mark Foley.

Let’s see…Until the part about not wanting to use condoms, I figure he didn’t do too badly. He paid for everything, first-class all the way, was discreet, and didn’t pretend he wanted a relationship.

The only part that’s bad — really bad — is that he was crusading against prostitution while availing himself of it. To me, it’s the hypocrisy of that. Better that he should have fought to legalize it and protect sex workers from exploitation. Think of the tax revenues the state lost.

Oh, there is one other really, really bad thing. This broke on him because the bank thought his money transfers were ’suspicious’. Despite the fact that the amounts were less than the magic 10K Terrorism threshold, someone just didn’t like that there were large sums ($4,300 is LARGE?) moving. That scares me more than the idea of Kristen and Eliot spending a couple of hours together in a five-star hotel.

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  • I think there should be more media attention on getting Bush and Cheney to resign. Their crimes are far more serious.
  • kimberly e,

    I didn't defend him. I'm just not all that incensed about him hiring a prostitute. His hypocrisy is a different matter indeed.

    I read the transcript, couldn't decide if it was fetish or not, but seemed clear that he didn't want to use condoms.

    I'm far more aggravated at the way he was caught than I am at the fact of his hypocrisy, to be honest. It's indicative of a much larger problem than one man's moral and sexual bankruptcy.
  • kimberly e
    Didn't want to use condoms? What are you reading? What we are reading has him not engaged in any sort of traditional sexual play but fetish play.

    And how can you defend him? The man is morally bankrupt and a con man.
    http://newyorkhope.net/blog/2008/03/08/eliot-sp...
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