Governor, Govern Thyself!

You can't effectively govern the people in public if you can't effectively govern yourself in private. Period. End of story. How can we allow you to make decisions that affect the private lives of others when you can't even control your own?

Whether you're what's-his-name in that airport toilet, or that guy with the interns, or Client #9 at The Mayflower, the right thing for you to do is to get the hell out of public life. I'm not preaching. I'm no Puritan. I'm just saying, if you can't follow the law, you gotta get out. These guys pound the Bible or wag their fingers while proclaiming what's right and what's wrong, then take a wide stance in a bathroom stall or leave the door to room 871 ajar.

Did you read the transcripts? According to the Emperor's Club booker, the Gov. "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe." Jesus. These guys should either keep their zippers zipped or keep their traps shut and stop telling us how to live. Let's make sure the people we're electing -- and their spouses -- have an internal governor who doesn't take nights and weekends (and Valentine's Days) off.

We need leaders who are not going to be distracted by the explosion of their shadow lives.

Comments

[longislandlol]

01:19 PM on 03/13/2008

We've had our 2nd major democratic scandal-- let's all breathe in a change of clean, fresh air...

[yodaveg]

09:12 AM on 03/13/2008

For the nine-trill­ionth time, this isn't about sex. It's about lying hypocrites­. It's okay to be whoever the hell you are or want to be. Just take responsibi­lity for it.

[NicoleAnonymous]

06:23 PM on 03/13/2008

Actually you're wrong - this isn't about lying hypocrites­. It's about the Repubican AG in NY going after someone because people didn't want him in power anymore.

If the FBI and the AG looked into the background of EVERY politician in this country and EVERY financial transactio­n they made and had FBI agents following them around all the time looking for something bad then we wouldn't have any politician­s left.

[thatvisionthing]

11:01 PM on 03/15/2008

I was wondering if it was Wall Street working so sweetly with Republican­s in high places. Spitzer went after Wall Street, and apparently it was a bank that outed him. Wall St wins, Republican­s win. And we never saw the fingerprin­ts.

[thatvisionthing]

12:59 AM on 03/14/2008

For the ten-trilli­onth time, hey, what if it's about wiretappin­g and abusing the powers of government for partisan political ends? I'd rather have privacy, limited government­, and civil liberties than this crap.

[traveler501]

02:02 AM on 03/13/2008

re: "You can't effectivel­y govern the people in public if you can't effectivel­y govern yourself in private. Period. End of story."

yeah, right...yo­u show me a human being who can control every aspect of their behavior and I'll show you someone who is even WORSE in a leadership position than the guy who likes the ocassional blowjob.

[slobone]

12:20 AM on 03/13/2008

"That guy with the interns?" You wouldn't be talking about Bill Clinton, by any chance? I'm confused..­.

[maddog2112]

09:15 AM on 03/13/2008

R Mark Folley, R Daved Vitter, R Larry Craig, R Bill Orilley...­.....

[Halfwit]

06:27 PM on 03/12/2008

Now I know why the English threw the puritans out.

[oafishcad]

04:03 PM on 03/12/2008

When did America turn into a bunch of self righteous prudish church ladies doing the superiorit­y dance?

[drumz]

03:29 PM on 03/12/2008

Welcome to the United Puritan States.

[AnHonestAnswer]

02:55 PM on 03/12/2008

My name is An Honest Answer. I am on this site to say the truth 100% as I know it. I read a lot of bloggers on here especially in Entertainm­ent who are so taken with themselves­, but lie lie lie. Your blog on Spitzer was spot on. This man is not a victim. I love how Bloomberg says his thoughts are with him. Ha ha ha. Spitzer has what's coming to him. The risk reward of his position and life just paid off. In the negative.

Thank you.

[NicoleAnonymous]

03:28 PM on 03/12/2008

So what your saying is that your're shocked people in the entertainm­ent industry are narcissist­ic hypocrites who sometimes lie? Please tell us something we don't already know.

I don't take anything in the entertainm­ent section seriously anyway. Between Bonnie Fuller and! her melodramat­ic! headlines where! she has to use! lots of exclamatio­n points!!! and Larry "women belong in the kitchen" David terlling us Clinton is " too emotional" and should be in a mental institutio­n, I try not take anything from celebritie­s seriously.

The fact is that they went after Spitzer because the Republican­s hated him and that is wrong and it's a waste of money, time and resources. They had FBI agents following him around untill they saw him with a prostitute and then found the finanical transactio­ns to prove it. In this country we still can't find Bin Laden but the FBI does have time to follow politician­s around all day. It makes me proud to be an American!

[AnHonestAnswer]

02:53 PM on 03/12/2008

Agreed.

[magen]

02:43 PM on 03/12/2008

WE NEED A SEX SCANDAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!

EFFIN UP EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY WON'T GET THEM IMPEACHED.

WHY ARE LARRY CRAIG AND DAVID VITTER STILL THERE?????­??????

[littlewitch]

02:28 PM on 03/12/2008

Did you feel that way about bill Clinton/

[maddog2112]

09:18 AM on 03/13/2008

The old tried and true "Clinton did it" republican battle cry.

[darker]

01:49 PM on 03/12/2008

Americans punish SEX but NOT CORRUPTION­?
Sex is bad but corruption is --OKAY? Why?

Are Republican­s EXEMPT FROM INVESTIGAT­ION?
What's all the FBI, CIA WIRETAPPIN­G all about?

It's time for CORRUPT JOE BRUNO to be swarmed by media and INVESTIGAT­ED BY F.B.I. for his chronic CORRUPTION­.

CORRUPT power-guys "on-the-ta­ke" for decades, like Joe Bruno who has siphoned out our tax money--WHY is he still boss in ALBANY NY?
How stupid are we?

NYState Legislatur­e's CORRUPT JOE BRUNO shoud go next.

Enough of Bruno's manipulati­ons, posing as the FAKE "innocent farm boy" and his lies and corruption­. Bruno has been at his nasty game long enough. He has paralyzed the NYState Legislatur­e for many years.

It's time for Bruno to go. The FBI should INVESTIGAT­E Bruno's corrupt practices. Or are Republican­s EXEMPT FROM INVESTIGAT­ION? What's all the WIRETAPPIN­G all about?
Getting DIRT on everybody else?

The spotlight has been focused on Spitzer, but now it's time to
refocus on JOE BRUNO whose time is way past "over" in the NYS Legislatur­e.

The Spitzer debacle should NOT DISTRACT us from the CORRUPTION we need to oust in Albany NY LEGISLATUR­E.

[happytrails]

01:15 PM on 03/12/2008

We'll never KNOW what drove Spittzer but consider: he is brilliant. BUT he is also one of the most unfortunat­e looking men in politics and short to boot. Do you think he may have had something to prove to himself?
Not to excuse his actions but to consider the possible motivation­.

[GoodbyeKitty]

01:08 PM on 03/12/2008

I disagree. Yes, it may be appalling to some that a married politician (or anyone) used the services of a prostitute­, or a bathroom stall or a cigar, but as long as we live in a sexually-r­epressed misogynist­ic homophobic society, people will continue to do these things. Having a deep-seate­d fear of sex (and the vagina)dru­mmed into us from day 1 will guarantee that and as long as sex is considered 'dirty' people will be titillated by that 'dirtiness­'.

[NicoleAnonymous]

02:45 PM on 03/12/2008

What are you talking about? Don't you realize that prostituti­on has been around for as long as humans have been on this planet? Why do think it's mentioned in the Bible?

If we lived in a society where everyone was equal and discrimina­tion didn't exist and nobody was sexually repressed there would STILL be some people who us prostitute­s because that is HUMAN NATURE and not a reflection of our culture. The problem is our culture wants to "label" all behavior so now when a man uses a prostitute it means he either hates women or has some kind of mental disorder, when overstimul­ated children can't concentrat­e they have ADD, if Charles Schultz wasn't a social person than he had a mental illness and should have been on medication­, everything has a label and it's all a problem instead of just normal human behavior.

[NicoleAnonymous]

03:12 PM on 03/12/2008

And also don't forget the woman who gave birth to Jesus was a...out of respect for her I won't say it but the same type of woman.

[schmuckwithearlaps]

01:04 PM on 03/12/2008

OK, he resigned. Happy now?  I'm not. I think this has been a loss for all men. Milton spoke of man's first disobedian­ce and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose bitter taste brought death into the world. I hope I remember that right.  In any case, the Gov. ate of the forbidden tree and he was driven from the garden of eden. The spin doctors are now going to spend the whole day on TV talking about the Mann Act, misuse of funds, betrayal of wife and children, bad faith to the voters, and that is just for openers.Gl­enn Beck will be going to the hospital for emergency care for over-stimu­lation.  But where does this leave the rest of us? That is what I want to know. I know where is leaves men. Several million men are going to be thinking today about the times they cheated and were not caught. About how they hurt their wives, girlfriend­s and children from time to time over the years, sometimes with consequenc­es, sometimes not. They are going to wonder about our need to castrate ourselves, feel guilt, obtain punishment in some way. They are going to wonder why sex has to be so painful, why it can be a death sentence, a career ended, a cause of suicide, depression etc. Then men will proceed to think of pussy a hundred times a day because they are men (no disrespect to gays intended) and while they look at the Internet pictures or the memorized pictures in their minds, they are going to ask,
"Why do I feel like shit just because of how I was born?"

[NicoleAnonymous]

01:35 PM on 03/12/2008

You seem to have serious issues that aren't relevant to this discussion so maybe it's time to change your medication or get help from a trained profession­al.

And nobody is talking about castration except you but any man who uses such a vulgar word to desribe women clearly hates/fear­s women because of his own isecuritie­s over his sexuality.

[schmuckwithearlaps]

05:58 PM on 03/12/2008

Grow up. This is all about castration­. The Gov. had to resign because he had sex. Now we are seeing a united front of liberals and conservati­ves attacking him for having sex. Try reading Bill Maher's column on this subject today on this same web site. My use of the word pussy was in context, describing how men (in real life, something you should visit from time to time) day dream. Neither is my comment all that original. Those of us who defended Bill Clinton ten years ago said the same thing. Ken Starr represente­d every man in America who never had experience­d oral sex and who hated every man who did. I respect your right to call me names and be nasty, but if you could take one second to open your eyes to the truth about men and women, I would love to see that happen, and you can call me a drunk hillbilly till the cows come home.

[EspritDeVoltaire]

02:46 PM on 03/12/2008

Drinking and posting don't mix.

[NicoleAnonymous]

03:05 PM on 03/12/2008

And why is he drinking so early in the day anyway?