Mar 12 2008

Finally, maybe it will end!

Posted by Neocon in Democrats

After two posts and far too much coverage, Eliot Spitzer is planning to resign this afternoon at 11:30AM EST. Hopefully this will be the last post on this scandal. While Spitzer deserves justice, particularly so given the enormity of his hypocrisy, I don’t think that it does his family any good to have the question of “will he/won’t he” resign hanging out there for another week or so until the New York Senate forces him out.

I will admit that a side of me finds a lot of Spitzer’s situation humorous insofar as the man being caught by laws he helped craft and enforce. What hasn’t been amusing is the constant harping on his wife for standing next to him at his “my bad” press conference. I’ve seen at least five segments on this from Fox, CNN and the others; it isn’t overkill, it’s disgusting. This doesn’t require fifty different psychological experts to explain: the woman has been married to this man for years, they have children and a family together. You can’t just turn that off in a time of crisis, even if your partner is at fault.

What good would it do for her to not appear with him? How does the further degradation he would suffer without his wife by his side do anything but hurt the family? While the mainstream media has been saturated with everything from comparing the wardrobe choices of troubled spouses to interviews with previous victims of adultery, the inane coverage would be tenfold as intense if Mrs. Spitzer hadn’t appeared with her husband. It is far too obvious a choice for people to read things into it. Not only is the hurt so raw that you can’t predict what will happen between them, we shouldn’t predict anything. That aspect is none of our business. So if I go the rest of my life without another analysis of why he wore a red tie or why she wore a blue dress, I’ll be a happy man.

Here’s some more updates:

QandO wonders where the media has been all the time he’s been screwing New York. Well, not exactly Billy Hollis’ wording, that’s my own colorful language, but you get the drift.

Redstate has some more general news and some insight into whether Spitzer deserves what he’s getting.

Sister Toldjah links to more details on the resignation process.

Hot Air has the predictable late breaking news and a possible picture link to Spitzer’s latest hook!

Update:

Since I’m swearing off Spitzer after this post, I’ll keep updating this one instead of spreading this schmuck across any more pages. Here are some more post-resignation thoughts from around the blogosphere:

California Conservative wants more than just a resignation. I agree.

Ankle Biting Pundits has the text and some reaction to Spitzer’s continued fawning over himself.

John Podhoretz reacts.

Hot Air has the video, as usual.

Update 1:33PM CST: I designed some Spitzer t-shirts way early this morning for cafepress, but I wasn’t going to inject them into my posts. Now seeing that many others are, I guess I can let my capitalist heart shine out in the open a bit more.