that the prostitute was female?

Awesome. Genius. Ironic.

It's time to simply retire the word "tragic" and all its permutations -- put it in a rest home with all the other words that described a nobler and more interesting species. This is not a tragic situation. The Steely Dan word "skeevy" feels closer to the mark.

about so-called "great men" - and women, as we'll soon see - that makes them abandon all reason and engineer their own downfalls? Intelligent people these, but suffering from a fatal lack of judgment and self-control.

In short, the absolute last sort of person who should govern anyone, when they can barely govern themselves.

To avoid being browbeaten by republicans, the democrats should close ranks and support Spitzer now.

They need to play the same game republicans play when one of them is attacked.

Already the mouthpiece of republicans, Fox News, is falsely portraying as if Spitzer offered to resign.

The following should be the action plan of dems:

1. Refuse to comment anything about Spitzer instead saying "no comment" to any comment by anyone.

2. Go on offensive against republicans, and mention how many corrupt republicans spitzer has caught and convicted.

3. Refuse to acknowledge either in house or senate about spitzer's wrong-doing, act indignant if accused by republicans, and walkout of the senate and congress if forced to pass a resolution.

4. Go straight for the jugular: Bush, stating his broken promises, record inflation and lack of intelligence in even gasoline prices which are hurting the economy.

5. Divert attention from Spitzer by playing Zone Defense. Move press away from spitzer by concentrating on gasoline prices and how to tax Big Oil.

Tragic?

He just exploited another human being.

Paying someone for her/his body is nothing

better than keeping a personal slave.

The circumstances in which women are often roped into

prostitution -- poverty, abuse, neglect -- are the tragedy here.

Not to belittle any of the ALLEGATIONS against Spitzer, but it seems the media was in seventh heaven Monday, licking its lips at the chance to bring Spitzer down...not well liked by the media, Wall Street types and the state's all but moribund Republican party, nothing could have suited them better than to see Spitzer shamed...well, he gave them a chance...

What is amazing is the level which so many politicians will engage in behaviors that are certain to bring their downfall. I do not give a damn about the prostitution matter, although in terms of health issues and his wife, that has to be a concern. It was heartwrenching to watch her have to stand next to Spitzer, as have other wives, when their husbands have to admit they transgressed on their spouse.

By the way, although Spitzer's monetary mishaps are deadly serious allegations, if he was found soliciting a prostitute, the calls for his resignation should go as far as they did for Larry Craig and Michael Vitter...they are still in office...WHY?

Spitzer had the potential to be a wonderful governor in a state that Shapiro likes to claim is steeped in corrupt politics...somehow I find this portrayal of NY politics antique. Sort of like portraying Louisiana politics today as it was in Huey Long's day. Never mind. The man the corporations loved to hate have managed to get him out of the way...many boardroom types are I am sure delighted at his demise.

Clinton is a name that comes to mind in just a case like the Spitzer one. Sleazy sex scandal. Not Hillary, of course, but charming Billy. Not that Bill ever had a taste for the kind of babes who work for The Emperor’s Club, or that he ever paid for it except, after the fact, in lawyers fees fighting law suits.

Leave it some morons to bring up the Clintons in this matter...why don't you mention Larry Craig, Vitter or that Florida Repub. Congressman who, after soliciting sex in a men's room, claimed he paid the man he had contact with because he was "afraid of black people"...? I am afraid too many seem to think that they can put the Clintons in the bulls eye for everything, including this gratutiously idiotic comment. The Repubs have had a monopoly on hypocritical sleazy sex scandals...although Bill Clinton never held himself out to be righteous, or gay hating, or, like Spitzer, a guy who broke up prostitution rings...one wonders whether he hadn't been bought off...he would get girls if he made sure he never tried to prosecute a call girl service again...sounds suspicious to me.

Be careful, obamateers

While we've all come to expect you to engage in your vulgar slurs, I'd be careful here. I'd be outright shocked if an established mega-egomanic like Barrack Obama had a straight arrow history of never straying from Michelle.

If this suspicion is correct you better believe someone is going to unbury it.

-- ShawnWM

He certainly is a megolamaniac (It's All About ME!!!)...why is it the most righteous men are always ones with skeletons jangling around in their closet? We had Stall Cruisin' Larry Craig calling Bill Clinton a "nasty boy" and this Vitter clown calling Clinton out for his tomcatting. People in glass houses, eh? Likewise, Obama is overly righteous, and this characteristic has me deeply suspicious that Mr. Hope and Change may be wishing for hope if anything should come out proving him to be another craven politician.

In perspective, its a Democrat, so, the other party is an adult woman; had it been a Republican, the other party involved probably would have been an under-age male.

but now that devotion to his family is now being used by a small handful of rabid Clinton fans to smear him. "Obama has a real marriage and a great family ...he must be dirty!" LOL!

What a state we have come to when we attack people for not being proven adulterers and johns, which is even worse.

As for Spitzer, he's a hypocrite and a criminal and should leave office now. He has totally failed to live up to, as he said, his own standards not to mention the law.