This is a perfect time for him to reenter public life. His skills and hard-nosed attitude are needed, and the magnitude of the economic crisis makes his personal failings seem less important. I'd like to see him replace Tim Geithner, although I know it's not gonna happen.

Man I hope he gets back into the game. And he just happens to have been the guy closest to blowing open the AIG fiasco before it happened.

Let's hope he learned some humility. He's a smart guy but his administration was off to a terrible start before the prostitution thing. He started off by pissing off and insulting everyone he was going to have to negotiate with as governor. His whole administration had an air of doom about it, all self-inflicted.

Maybe what he's been through has taught him how to harness all his brainpower to his inner human being.

Or maybe not.

Ugh. I respect Spitzer's bulldogging ways, believe it or not, but his actions were so profoundly irresponsible as to border on sociopathic. He let down his family, everybody he brought with him to the governorship, and thrust into the public eye a young girl who had no intention of being a public figure. So delighted to see that he's coming off smelling like a rose. Jerk.

...but admitting to nothing. "Not often... not for very long."

I don't really believe anything has changed, but hopefully Spitzer is now crossing the border into nearby Canada, where paying for sex is legal.

Anyhow, he is basically a good guy and we should forget about his sex life and allow him to play a part in public life.

Pitbull Spitzer up against W, Cheney and company, that would be gold. If there's anyone that could make the GOP crap their pants, it's Spitzer.

Otherwise, some kind of fed regulatory role for Spitzer would be great.

So what he went to Prostitutes. Seriously it should be legal anyway. We all have sex and have fetishes. Everyone likes their butt hole tickled but nobody wants to admit it. I would love to do a survey on all those that brought him down to see what weird shit is hiding in their closet.

This is the same kind of shit that happened to Pee Wee Herman. They persecuted him for jerking off in a porno theater. A man who gave so much happiness to millions adults and kids alike was treated like a pedofile simply because he was JO in a porno theater.

People lets get serious. This is bullshit.

I've heard it suggested that Spitzer went down specifically because he was so intent on investigating corruption. I've also heard that frequenting prostitutes is common among politicians, which supports the first thing I heard -- if everybody does it, why does he get called on it? Not to say I excuse it, I think its pretty sleazy, especially considering he had a family. But yeah, he would be good to have back in politics. As for investigating war crimes, please. Get a Republican prosecutor on the job -- there are at least a few who actually believe in the rule of law.

but whenever I picture him going after the bad guys I hear the Untouchables theme in the back of my head.

He was brought down because he was hot on the trail of the financial wonderboys and wrote a piece about it in the Washington Post just before he was "caught."

Yes, politicians are known for their frequenting houses of ill repute, and no one much cares -- not enough to go after the way the DOJ did Spitzer.

It doesn't take a high IQ to figure out how it is connected. The Justice Department -- hello? was asked to grab him and put him out of the way because he was going to bust Wall Street open and maybe - maybe - even avert some of the crisis by opening up the whole sham (including Madoff, about whom he knew) ahead of its scheduled unraveling.

It worked. The nation is hostage to the gamblers who lose and demand that we replenish their wallets; we're at the mercy of the rest of the world for everything; our Treasury Secretary is giving away the store; our President is out of his knowledge base and is being snookered by the suits/gamblers.

Eliot Spitzer! How fast can you get access to the Oval Office?

I don't take lightly his breaking public laws and private vows but neither do I think he has to be outcast forever. This country is in financial crisis. If Spitzer can help, bring him on!