Posted on 03/12/2008 3:05:59 PM PDT by Syncro
WHOREABLE BEHAVIOR
March 12, 2008
This is a disaster for Hillary Clinton.
According to the wiretaps, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was delighted to be getting the prostitute "Kristen" again. At least he knew her name. It took Monica Lewinsky's boyfriend six sexual encounters to remember her name (raising his lifetime average to 8.2).
You know that queasy feeling you get thinking about Bill Clinton back in the White House again? Now you remember why. Hillary Clinton couldn't feel worse about the Spitzer case if she were an actual New Yorker.
Proving that Karl Marx got everything wrong -- more bad news for Hillary -- history is indeed repeating itself, but, contra Marx, the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy. Clinton's scandal was hilarious; Spitzer's is just depressing.
Most people outside of New York can't grasp the enormity of Spitzer's political free fall.
Eliot Spitzer was the golden boy with an absolutely charmed life. His parents were the children of Jewish immigrants, who created a Ralph Lauren lifestyle for their children.
Spitzer's father made half a billion dollars in New York real estate and raised three high-achieving children -- two lawyers and a neurosurgeon. In a family like that, becoming governor of New York makes you the black sheep.
Spitzer went to the best schools -- Horace Mann, Princeton and Harvard Law School. He must have written some good papers.
He lives at the perfect address (Fifth Avenue and 79th St.) with his perfect Harvard Law School-educated Southern Baptist wife -- whose parents must be telling her they told her so right about now -- and their three perfect daughters. (Admittedly, the apartment is a gift from Dad: A mere top-flight education doesn't get you an apartment overlooking Central Park.)
And now Spitzer's entire anal-retentive, good paper-writing life has collapsed in the horrifying image of a frenzied masturbator. This is the most complete coup de grace imaginable, short of an assassin's bullet.
Spitzer's life is ruined. It doesn't matter if he has defenders who will wail, "It's his private life!" It doesn't matter if he fights the charges. It doesn't matter if this was a political prosecution. As Talleyrand said: "It's worse than a crime; it's a blunder."
Eliot Spitzer, Harvard Law graduate and Fifth Avenue denizen, is forevermore: "Client No. 9."
Forget about his career -- those around him better have him on suicide watch. Dudley Do-Right is on tape in a white-knuckle negotiation with pimps about payment for a prostitute. (Let's just be thankful that there's no anti-Semitic expression for Jews haggling about money.)
No one will ever be able to look him in the eye again. How can Spitzer hold a press conference when reporters won't stop giggling at him?
Spitzer can't go to the restaurants he used to frequent. He can't go to the Whitney Museum near his apartment. He can't go to track meets at his daughters' expensive private school. He can't show his face in public.
The golden boy's disgrace is deep and subliminal; it can't be expunged.
One shudders to imagine the sepulchral gloom pervading the Spitzer home this week. At least Hillary would liven the place up with some lamp-throwing.
Whatever Spitzer's flaws, he was a pristine product of wealth and attainment. And he threw away a star-studded life of accomplishment in a wanton, reckless pursuit of sex with prostitutes.
There's no prettifying what Spitzer has done. The Web site of the "Emperors Club VIP" whorehouse patronized by Spitzer heroically claims the prostitutes -- or "models" -- are chosen for their "level of education, family background, intelligence, personality."
One can almost hear the typical John, heavy-breathing into the phone: "And this one you call 'Busty Betty' -- does she come from a good family? Parents still together? What church do they attend?"
Surprising no one, police wiretaps indicate that the "models" were semi-literate, could not learn to swipe a credit card and seemed invariably to be on drugs. That's what you get for $2,000 an hour in this charming business.
After one prostitute missed an appointment and left a "crazy" text message for one of her pimps, the procurer remarks that the girl is on drugs. It seems, the procurer adds, "a lot of these girls deteriorate to this point."
Behold the "victimless" crime of prostitution. Hard to believe these girls would turn to drugs. Having sex with strangers for money, nothing to live for ... just thinking about it makes me want to take drugs.
It's absurd to talk about Spitzer's problem being "hypocrisy" -- as if everything would be fine if only he had previously advocated legalized prostitution.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Not only is he simply stupid, he is simply Godless. Without morals, or even a clue. I hope he suffers even more until he finds humbleness and truth.
Spitzer is a self-righteous prick. That he is a three-day-a-year Jew is completely irrelevant.
Welcome to FR!!!
And by the way, the last Dem president who was not a former Southern governor won 44 years ago.
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Wasn’t that 48 years ago?
“He could have been more moderate as a Dim from the South”
With a name like Spitzer?
No. LBJ was never Governor. So, elected 44 years ago.
I seem to remember that it was Ark. back when I was in school in the 60s and early 70s.
Why is it anti-Semitic to reference the historical prejudice on the part of Southern Baptists towards Jews? If anything, her remark would me anti-Good Old Boy.
Nobody is denying the calamity of prostituting for survival.
But, women who can command those dollar billing numbers aren't your typical hooker standing on the corner...advertising her wares.
They make a 6 figure income and can still obviously cut CDs.
And for the record, she's dating a Jewish guy.
This one is too obvious.
I thought I was the only one.
Next time a Christian screws up, I'll be sure to refer to that person as a Christian again and again.
Wouldn't want anyone to get confused.
Not in my experience. I used to hire topless dancers for clubs, most
were only 18 and were hired to wait tables at first. they were as clean
as snow white. Until they saw the money to be made with their
clothes off. Drugs always followed through pier pressure from the
other girls. Usually the older women in the clubs would sell them
what they needed to get through the nights.
It's not the drugs that come first, I can assure you that maybe 10%
were on drugs before they began their career. We wouldn't hire them
if they were out of control drug trash.
I was in that industry for almost 13 years. And yes, I knew the high dollar hookers.
At least the ones who were dancers on the side.
I have no pity for Spitzer.
He's as dumb as they come. So the girls used to say.
Bingo.
Of course Ann really isn't endorsing Hillary. This is her way of dis-endorsing McCain. IMHO, anyone who is truly excited about voting for McCain has a screw loose.
I thought you were a Christian, 668. How about not piling on the wretched Ann, how about writing nothing at all, and just feeling pity. Maybe say a prayer for a soul in darkness.
Good Post!
What steems me about Spitzer is not his foibles; it’s his putting other people in jail for theirs! So he should be held accountable.
He should be Judged as he has judged others.
And what? It's antisemitic to suggest that religious parents don't want their daughters to marry outside the religion? That was a major theme of Fiddler on the Roof. Some people are way too sensitive.
I agree that she is power hungry (why else would she try to keep him from resigning?), but my prediction is that for that reason she will divorce him. She has the perfect excuse now. She can take him to the cleaners and then hitch onto another rising star because God knows Spitzer isn't going anywhere now.
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