Yeah, i see that sometimes.
For Spitzer, If it comes out that all he did was have sex with a hooker, he should get what ever punishment an ordinary person should get at the very least. A weekend in jail and the some community service weekends wouldn't be bad...
However, if this rich self righteous prick gets the full weight of punishment possible i won't complain.
Interesting. A few of you seem to have that opinion, and Beach is morally outraged to boot. I'm intrigued as to why, all of a sudden, anyone would care about what a politician does with a whore.
Politics and prostitution go hand in hand, both on a metaphorical level, as well as in a very real way. All you have to do is google sex scandal + world or politician and you'll end up with an astonishing list. Summer 2007 seems to have been a particularly busy period worldwide for such political pecadillos and sexual faux pas.
Maybe politicians do see themselves as above the law. Perhaps it's a "peer group pressure" thing and you can't be part of the old boys' club if you don't partake in the "perks." Maybe certain politicians who have wives that also function in a work/advisory capacity feel sexually turned off by that, and just plain long for a night here and there to be a man in the manly sense.
People say the Bush administration shouldn't be brought into it, but leaving the obvious Iraq war issue out of it, there was this skanky incident with a certain gay hustler cum political journalist Jeff Gannon. Who in their right minds believes this guy had daily access to the white house because of his press "credentials?" Like some illegal sexual activity wasn't covered up there! And what about Jack Kennedy and the abundance of whores he had tracking through the white house any given week? It is said that old Joe paid Jackie one million to stay with that president who ALSO apparently couldn't keep it in his pants. Does anyone revile him for it? No. Those are just two minor examples. If it's tolerated and covered up at the white house level, why are people indignant when it trickles down elsewhere?
Spitzer pissed off a lot of people who are laughing now. He played the moral high ground, then got caught in the gutter with his pantaloons around his ankles. So what. It happens every day. Why should he be punished any more than any other ho-purchasing politician john?