Eliot Spitzer could not be more busted… Is the moral standard changing or do we not just know exactly when political leaders have sexual affairs…. whereas in the past we wouldn’t find out for decades. Alexander Hamilton for example. Even Thomas Jefferson. What about JFK who famously said, “If I don’t have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.”

But in keeping with the theme of the day, former Gov Eliot Spitzer, many in recent years have resigned for similar reasons. (It’s worth noting that most political sex scandals do not involve prostitution, but regular ol’ affairs… which complicates Spitzer’s life a bit, no?) What about the more obscure names like Bob Packwood, Bob Livingston and David Vitter. Then there are the more famous Mark Foley and Larry Craig. But perhaps Foley and Craig are only more “famous” because they’re more recent…. Am I just not remembering Packwood and Vitter well, or did politicians involved in sordid sexual affairs fold quietly into the ether of namelessness without the 21st century brouhaha that we love so much…

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