I think he aught to fess up and then say, "so what?" Then he should carry on being governor. Unless someone wants to jail him for impropriety, I think he'd be given a pass if he showed that kind of temerity, just like Ted Kennedy got a pass on the Chappaquiddick incident.

He made his bed and.... well. You know.

No, that's something he's got to work out at home. People don't give a shit right now we're worried about losing our homes , how we're gonna pay our bills, and bringing our soldiers home.

I think he should run for Governor of Nevada. :)

I don't know. What's he done? Edit: Okay, I just read about it. No. No, I don't think he should. I don't think it's any of our damn business if the man wanted to dish out the cash to have a good lay. Same with Bill Clinton and the infamous blowjob. Those are their personal lives. I don't think it's right at all that those things are made public. I hope he sticks it out.

Yes. He should, if the justice system works, go to jail or pay a fine. He needs to get out of the way and let the people's business be done without distraction.

So many Presidents have has sexual activity outside of their marriage, it just makes him "one of the boys". I trust Mrs. Spitzer will deal with him accordingly. Maybe she will swallow instead of spitting.

G'day Sheriff-Raff, Thank you for your question. I think that he should stand aside until the investigations are complete. Irrespective of what actually happened, he will not be able to fully focus on running the Government of New York with this thing going on. Regards

Without a doubt. He is a complete two faced imbecile. When attorney general he made many speech's chastising those who participated in these activities and actively prosecuted them. He is a vile Jane Fonda democrat. Maybr he is a relative of the Clintons.

If this had happened in France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden,or Germany it would have been greeted with a big yawn. What's the matter with this country? Are the Puritans running things?

Absolutely not! But he will. I am really sorry for him.

No one should pay a bit of attention. Boys will boys and men are men. Why can't Americans face that fact?

The law is the law for EVERYBODY!!!... As long as this activity is illegal, not only should he step down, he should be prosecuted the same as anyone...We need people of good character in our Gov... NOT these cheaters.. If he cheats on his wife, He will cheat on his constituents.....

It's really time to stop the hypocrisy and move into the 19th Century. Here's a few historical personages who had their own good times: George Washington (Called Father of his country for more than one reason) Alexander Hamilton (not a President, but essential to American History) Ben Franklyn (Ditto) Thomas Jefferson James Monroe John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson (shot & killed the husband of his lover) Zachary Taylor Chester A Arthur (who may have also been the fattest President) Warren G. Harding (who used the Secret Service to arrange assignation with his lovers. Did you note the plural/) Franklyn Delano Roosevelt Charles "Lucky" Lindberg (also not a President--but notable as a holier than thou type) Dwight David Eisenhower John Fitzgerald Kennedy (also his Dad and his brothers) Lydon Baines Johnson Ronald "Dutch" Reagen Bill Clinton George H. Bush (not proven, but suspected by many)

Elliot Sptizer is my professional role model. The work he did as Attorney General was nothing short of amazing. However, I am disappointed that he put himself in a position where he could get gunned down like this. I mean, when you attack the corporate world head on, you know they're going to be out to get you. He took down white collar criminals, huge scams, and knocked out a ton of corruption. He did everything by the book; at the very worst one could claim he did make use of loopholes - but he never did anything illegal. But, nobody is above the law - so I think he should be punished accordingly. As a budding lawyer, I am very interested in this case - the law regarding a wiretap on a cellphone and recording of text messages is very interesting. I have a funny feeling that the wiretap wasn't the most legal thing, but that's just a hunch on my end. The damage has been done already: his political future outside of New York is bleak. That said, I do not think he should step down as Governor. But man, a $4000 escort for some freaky sex - I'm in the wrong profession!

I'm a pretty old lady, but in my time this is what men did--and no one would talk about it. Since JFK everyone started to make a big thing of it. It's no big thing. It's just sex, and I had my share, thank God, and it was fun. I believe that what someone else said is true: it's in men's nature to do this and: - +++++++I NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE TYRANNY OF SEX! +++++++++

He will very likely be indicted so he may not have a choice.

If I was in his situation, I would do the smart thing and step down since I know it's inevitably.

Yes and the sooner the better!

If I had the guts he seems to have (which I don't), I would not step down; but he may not have to, he may be forced out. In any case, I'd say his political career is pretty much over (at least I would hope so; he's shown himself to be a very dishonest man with this last venture).

No! He should fight for his position and then try to legalize prostitution as in Italy and Holland as well as other countries.

I like Eliot Spitzer and think he did a lot of good for NY and for the stockholders of America when he took on Wall Street, something that his cowardly predecessors failed to do. I feel very bad for him and his family; and think that we should go back to the days when the press would ignore the personal lives of its citizens. Apparently he spent a fortune on these prostitutes. I saw a figure of $80,000. Perhaps his Dad should cut his allowance.

Never heard of him. Who is he.

From Dow Theory Letters, a stock market advisory service: "Eliot, how could you be so stupid? Spitzer went to my high school in New York, Horace Mann. Spitzer has not been charged yet, but he may be charged under the 1910 Mann Act. This is the act that states it's a felony to bring a women across state lines for immoral purposes. The Mann Act was created to get back at black heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson. Johnson gave white America the finger by traveling all over the states with his white girlfriends. . You have to wonder why Spitzer brought a girl all the way from NYC to Washington for his sex play. The Spitz paid for the gal's plane fare, taxi, mini-bar at the hotel, room service. She must have been quite a little lady. But to take the girl across state lines for sex was idiotic. The talk is that if Spitzer quits the governorship, he won't be prosecuted (well, except by his wife). . An amazing story of how sex and secret desires can trump intelligence. " . Richard Russell, Dow Theory Letters, March 11, 2008

WHY ELIOT IS A HERO The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked By Greg Palast Reporting for Air America Radio’s Clout Listen to Palast on Clout at www.GregPalast.com While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators. Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there’s a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush’s man Bernanke was using ours. This week, Bernanke’s Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks’ mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure. Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers’ bordello: Eliot Spitzer. Who are they kidding? Spitzer’s lynching and the bankers’ enriching are intimately tied. How? Follow the money. The press has swallowed Wall Street’s line that millions of US families are about to lose their homes because they bought homes they couldn’t afford or took loans too big for their wallets. Ba-LON-ey. That’s blaming the victim. Here’s what happened. Since the Bush regime came to power, a new species of loan became the norm, the ‘sub-prime’ mortgage and it’s variants including loans with teeny “introductory” interest rates. From out of nowhere, a company called ‘Countrywide’ became America’s top mortgage lender, accounting for one in five home loans, a large chuck of these ‘sub-prime.’ Here’s how it worked: The Grinning Family, with US average household income, gets a $200,000 mortgage at 4% for two years. Their $955 a month payment is 25% of their income. No problem. Their banker promises them a new mortgage, again at the cheap rate, in two years. But in two years, the promise ain’t worth a can of spam and the Grinnings are told to scram - because their house is now worth less than the mortgage. Now, the mortgage hits 9% or $1,609 plus fees to recover the “discount” they had for two years. Suddenly, payments equal 42% to 50% of pre-tax income. Grinnings move into their Toyota. Now, what kind of American is ‘sub-prime.’ Guess. No peeking. Here’s a hint: 73% of HIGH INCOME Black and Hispanic borrowers were given sub-prime loans versus 17% of similar-income Whites. Dark-skinned borrowers aren’t stupid – they had no choice. They were ‘steered’ as it’s called in the mortgage sharking business. ‘Steering,’ sub-prime loans with usurious kickers, fake inducements to over-borrow, called ‘fraudulent conveyance’ or ‘predatory lending’ under US law, were almost completely forbidden in the olden days (Clinton Administration and earlier) by federal regulators and state laws as nothing more than fancy loan-sharking. But when the Bush regime took over, Countrywide and its banking brethren were told to party hardy – it was OK now to steer’m, fake’m, charge’m and take’m. But there was this annoying party-pooper. The Attorney General of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who sued these guys to a fare-thee-well. Or tried to. Instead of regulating the banks that had run amok, Bush’s regulators went on the warpath against Spitzer and states attempting to stop predatory practices. Making an unprecedented use of the legal power of “federal pre-emption,” Bush-bots ordered the states to NOT enforce their consumer protection laws. Indeed, the feds actually filed a lawsuit to block Spitzer’s investigation of ugly racial mortgage steering. Bush’s banking buddies were especially steamed that Spitzer hammered bank practices across the nation using New York State laws. Spitzer not only took on Countrywide, he took on their predatory enablers in the investment banking community. Behind Countrywide was the Mother Shark, its funder and now owner, Bank of America. Others joined the sharkfest: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup’s Citibank made mortgage usury their major profit centers. They did this through a bit of financial legerdemain called “securitization.” What that means is that they took a bunch of junk mortgages, like the Grinnings, loans about to go down the toilet and re-packaged them into “tranches” of bonds which were stamped “AAA” - top grade - by bond rating agencies. These gold-painted turds were sold as sparkling safe investments to US school district pension funds and town governments in Finland (really). When the housing bubble burst and the paint flaked off, investors were left with the poop and the bankers were left with bonuses. Countrywide’s top man, Angelo Mozilo, will ‘earn’ a $77 million buy-out bonus this year on top of the $656 million - over half a billion dollars – he pulled in from 1998 through 2007. But there were rumblings that the party would soon be over. Angry regulators, burned investors and the weight of millions of homes about to be boarded up were causing the sharks to sink. Countrywide’s stock was down 50%, and Citigroup was off 38%, not pleasing to the Gulf sheiks who now control its biggest share blocks. Then, on Wednesday of this week, the unthinkable happened. Carlyle Capital went bankrupt. Who? That’s Carlyle as in Carlyle Group. James Baker, Senior Counsel. Notable partners, former and past: George Bush, the Bin Laden family and more dictators, potentates, pirates and presidents than you can count. The Fed had to act. Bernanke opened the vault and dumped $200 billion on the poor little suffering bankers. They got the public treasure – and got to keep the Grinning’s house. There was no ‘quid’ of a foreclosure moratorium for the ‘pro quo’ of public bail-out. Not one family was saved – but not one banker was left behind. Every mortgage sharking operation shot up in value. Mozilo’s Countrywide stock rose 17% in one day. The Citi sheiks saw their company’s stock rise $10 billion in an afternoon. And that very same day the bail-out was decided – what a coinkydink! – the man called, ‘The Sheriff of Wall Street’ was cuffed. Spitzer was silenced. Do I believe the banks called Justice and said, “Take him down today!” Naw, that’s not how the system works. But the big players knew that unless Spitzer was taken out, he would create enough ruckus to spoil the party. Headlines in the financial press – one was “Wall Street Declares War on Spitzer” - made clear to Bush’s enforcers at Justice who their number one target should be. And it wasn’t Bin Laden. It was the night of February 13 when Spitzer made the bone-headed choice to order take-out in his Washington Hotel room. He had just finished signing these words for the Washington Post about predatory loans: “Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which he federal government was turning a blind eye.” Bush, said Spitzer right in the headline, was the “Predator Lenders’ Partner in Crime.” The President, said Spitzer, was a fugitive from justice. And Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet. Spitzer wrote, “When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners the Bush administration will not be judged favorably.” But now, the Administration can rest assured that this love story – of Bush and his bankers - will not be told by history at all – now that the Sheriff of Wall Street has fallen on his own gun. A note on “Prosecutorial Indiscretion.” Back in the day when I was an investigator of racketeers for government, the federal prosecutor I was assisting was deciding whether to launch a case based on his negotiations for airtime with 60 Minutes. I’m not allowed to tell you the prosecutor’s name, but I want to mention he was recently seen shouting, “Florida is Rudi country! Florida is Rudi country!” Not all crimes lead to federal bust or even public exposure. It’s up to something called “prosecutorial discretion.” Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him. Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department. Or maybe we should say, 'indiscretion.'

NO! He should not have resigned. He should have worked to legalize prostitution, like most sane countries have. He was only doing what most men do. It's in our blood. Even asking this this question and similar ones shows a complete lack of understanding of the male half of our species.

absolutely, and he should be prosecuted in the manner that he prosecuted similar behavior in others. he is a hypocrite and broke the law, which he was sworn to uphold.