I think he's a traitor to the Constitution

He took away the constitutional rights of other Americans over prostitution. That's what happens when you go to jail -- you lose most of the rights you've been guaranteed as an American.

I seriously doubt Spitzer ever prosecuted a sex worker for a misdemeanor infraction in his life. Prostituion is a misdemeanor, unless the worker has HIV and knowingly continues to work. Going after a sex ring would probably be a RICO prosecution. No hookers would be harmed in that kind of case.

If he goes out and hires hookers himself, then that means he doesn't take the Constitution seriously.

The constitution is mute on the issue of prostitution. Nothing about it in there. Nor God, or privacy, an Air Force. They didn't mention billions of things.

He's taken many oaths to protect and defend the Constitution during his various jobs in the public sector.

See above.

This is way more serious than Clinton's adultery.

How?

This is about the most incarcerated nation in the world, where the incarcerators allow themselves to break the same rules they've used to incarcerate others.

It is but like I said, he wasn't wasting his time jailing hookers or johns. Shapiro's article is crap.

This is a sick country and he is a symbol of our sickness.

It is a sick country but the prosecution of Spitzer is a symbole of the sickness. He's a victim. A stupid victim, but a victim nonetheless, being prosecuted for a victimless crime.

The powers that be wanted to put this one down because he made a career out of prosecuting them and they are the ones who do real harm to the country and the constitution, not Spitzer. Don't be a dope, like Shapiro here.

or how prostitution should be legalized is beside the point. Eliot Spitzer understood the law, had a duty to uphold the law and yet he broke the law. Evidently, behaving as if the rules didn't apply to him didn't make it true.

Eliot Spitzer was surely guilty of very poor judgment - indeed, he couldn't have made a worst call than his decision to use those prostitutes' services.

He surely betrayed his wife and his children (and the citizens of New York) when he patronized those prostitutes.

But did he steal money from anyone to pay for his prostitutes? Did he use public monies for his sordid pleasures?

Did Eliot Spitzer rape anyone?

Did Eliot Spitzer kill anyone?

Or cause the death of 4000 US soldiers, 600,000 Iraqis?

-- GW Bush took the greatest of pleasure, you will recall, in sending over 150 people to the death chamber while he was Governor of Texas. Remember his sneering at Karla Faye Tucker when she begged him for mercy?

His pleasure from having caused this huge toll of human lives in Afghanistan and Iraq must be utterly excruciating. He must have got some real good pleasure from the tortures inflicted at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. He has certainly been justifying all the tortures of those who he/his forces have been able to capture and put to the test.

Did Eliot Spitzer tell lies to US citizens to justify his chasing after prostitutes?

-- On the contrary, he seemed to have come clean straightaway, apologizing for having betrayed the trust that was reposed in him.

Did Eliot Spitzer claim that Jesus had told him to cohabit with prostitutes?

-- GW Bush did claim (and probably still does claim) that Jesus told him to 'do Iraq'.

Did Eliot Spitzer tell lies to the US Congress to get funding for guilty pleasures with Kristen?

Did he waste $ 500 billion of public funds to pleasure his penis?

Has he cost the US $ 2-3 TRILLION to further his pursuit of prostitutes?

Has he brought the world to the brink of disaster by his poor judgement?

-- GW Bush has done precisely all of that in pursuit of whatever joy the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars have brought him.

Surely Eliot Spitzer deserves to be severely punished for his poor judgement - he will be punished. If he has broken laws, then punishments are due for that too.

Eliot Spitzer has destroyed himself. GW Bush has destroyed nations, perhaps this world of ours as well.

My question:

So when will US citizens (and the rest of the world) decide to punish this war criminal GW Bush and his Gang for their real and monstrous war crimes?

--- GSC

I just don't get surprised by stuff anymore. Maybe that's bad. And, as some people have pointed out, the people who go through life acting as if they are the moral arbitors of our times are often, well, just not.

A few issues here. Do I think prostitution is the type of stuff our Federal Law enforcement officials should be spending their time on? Probably not - I'm also not thrilled with them sending lots of pot smokers to jail. However, Eliot Spitzer apparently thought it was a crime, at least for the women involved, he was quite happy to throw them in jail. Also, he was quite happy to use things like consensual affairs to threaten the Wall Street people he went after. Those, as far as I know, aren't even illegal as long as everyone is of age. But, he went after them for their personal lives in ways that he thought would hurt their careers, and, he was happy to do it. People celebrated him for it, because they hate those greedy Wall Street guys. Then, it was OK. Now, it's his personal life and we ought to stay out of it.

Quite frankly, once again, I'm not surprised, it just depends whose personal life we are looking at and whether he's a Democrat, or which Democrat, and whether we like him or her or not. Not the actual situation and, apparently, Eliot Spitzer thought this was a crime - and sent other people to jail for it. Willingly, happily and bragged about it. But now, oh, my, geez, he's been done wrong, Except, he doesn't even deny that he did it. He just apologized for it.

Have there been other hypocrites before him that have gotten away with it? Yes. Will there be others after him? Yes. Will I be surprised by any of it? Probably not.