Analysts ask: What was Spitzer thinking?

AP/Yahoo! News ^ | 3/10/08 | JOCELYN NOVECK

[Roberts]

By any measure, Spitzer engaged in reckless conduct. His career is toast.

[kcvl]

It’s called arrogance. They think they are too smart to get caught.

[D-fendr]

Men have two heads and not enough blood supply for both at the same time..

[MistrX]

Spitzer wasn't thinking.

His d!ck was.

[woofie]

He can check into rehab or meet with Jesse Jackson and all will be well again

[Roberts]

Has anyone found a photo of “Kristen”, the $4,300 girl?

[Travis McGee]

[Travis McGee]

Laws and rules are for the little people.

[shadowcat]

spitz thought with his head
his wife is going to cut it off
what a night to be a fly on the wall
flys stick on sh~t or spitz

[Senator Goldwater]

It’s called arrogance. They think they are too smart to get caught.

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Nailed it.

[Roberts]

LOL! He may be looking for work shortly.

[joebuck]

"You can't be tortured by guilt or indifference. It's just virtually impossible to function at this high a level without limiting the amount of introspection you can do."

This is awful close to the clinical definition of a psychopath.

[Travis McGee]

“Callboy.”

[Travis McGee]

“This is awful close to the clinical definition of a psychopath.”

A nanometer away, in the case of Spitler.

[SpaceBar]

Hubris and the consequences. Plain and simple.

[Zeppo]

But the allegations about Spitzer, he said, were the most shocking, if only because there was no public hint of such behavior from the governor, who campaigned as a model of moral rectitude.

What's wrong with all of these clueless people who are shocked, just shocked that an arrogant, authoritarian statist like Spitzer could or would commit criminal acts? His entire career has been predicated on the conceit that he himself was the law, and that winning was the only thing that mattered. Spitzer's modus operandi was little different from that of other leaders of organized criminal enterprises. His Soviet-style iron-fisted approach to governing, unconstrained by right or wrong but merely an expression of his own lust for power, was emblematic of his contempt for the written law. No surprises here...

[FormerACLUmember]

Spitzer can spend the next 20 years of daddy’s money in therapy figuring out this great mystery.

As a private citizen.

After Club Fed.

[Hildy]

Does anyone remember a NY Judge being groomed for Governor named Sol Wachtler???? I was reminded of him today. CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY STUFF..much more scandalous than this...

SOL WACHTER CASE PROFILED IN PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

[Scotswife]

“His entire career has been predicated on the conceit that he himself was the law, and that winning was the only thing that mattered.”

Spitzer summed it up nicely in his most famous quote...

“Listen! I’m a f***ing steamroller! And I’ll steamroll over you and anyone else!”

[MARTIAL MONK]

Nooooooooooooookieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!