As I write this, Eliot Spitzer is still Governor of New York State.
He’s been implicated in a high priced call girl ring. He was Client #9 and paid more than 3 grand for a pretty brunette to take the train from New York City to his hotel room in Washington.
He may be forced to resign, or impeached.
It’s too bad because I applauded Spitzer’s work in cleaning up the payola scandal that tainted the American radio industry.
But what is it with these guys who risk everything for sex?
Is it a personality trait-the same thing that makes them so ambitious in the first place?
Is it an inherent recklessness?
Is it hubris- the idea that the rules don’t apply to them?
As much as Spitzer’s conduct is contemptible, what really bothers me are these political wives. Why do they allow themselves to be used as props at a press conference in which their husbands admit to adultery?
Why don’t they grab the microphone themselves and read their errant husbands the riot act?
Why don’t they haul off and clout the creeps?
Silda Switzer is a Harvard-educated corporate lawyer. She has options. She doesn’t have to stay with her cheating husband.
And don’t say it’s for the sake of the kids. What kind of lesson did Chelsea Clinton learn by watching her mother stand by while her father philandered and made a mockery of their marriage vows for years?
Would a husband stand by silently and stoically when a cheating wife went public? I don’t think so.
Mary Ellen Beninger
