Not that I want to give the pig a pass, but Silda ain’t no virgin in her deal to marry him. I’m guessing she sniffed out the possibility of infidelity and looked the other way.

Ed–

As you noted yourself, ol’ Spitz was all about the personal responsibility when he wanted to start taxing the crack trade for revenue.

see-dubya on March 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM

Does the term “crack trade” include the business model of the Emperor’s Club?

a capella on March 12, 2008 at 2:58 PM

She did have a stunned look, but in those circles, that look is because he was caught and embarrassed the family. She may well have known that he got some on the side, but as long as it never came home with him, she could turn the other cheek. He got caught and humiliated her..JMO, obviously.

I have nothing but rumors to base this question on, but I would love to know:

Who was it harder to break the news to: Your wife or your father?

I would bet it was harder for him to go to his dad…after all, everything he did, he did to show his dad how smart and accomplished he was..or so I hear..

That being said, were I Silda Spitzer, I wouldn’t be in the same time zone and maybe not even on the same continent with the pig.

highhopes on March 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM

Oh, I dunno. I think she’s thinking just wait till you’re in prison cooling your heels and making license plates and I’m out and about spending your…err…my money.

What a dope. Elected office is not the possession of the office holder, it belongs to the people. Prosecutors better not be bargaining this way or they need to be prosecuted.

If I were caught doing what Spitzy got caught doing, do you think the prosecutors would give a hoot whether or not I resigned my non-government job?

Obviously not. And it’s definitely not up to prosecutors to suggest that an elected official should or should not resign.

Just another example of what dopes many of these people are who offer opinions on cable news channels.

As for Silda, I wonder how much her father in law had to cough up to get her to stay with #9.

Pam on March 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM

That would be just the first installment. Think of it as a pitcher warming up in the bullpen, although, despite the speculation she knew all about it, she appeared to me to have a stunned, disoriented appearance.

What’s really disgusting is that his wife was urging him to fight on. She KNEW.

And we all know that the press has known about this and hushed it up, because Spitzy was doing Gaia’s work taking down innocent evil capitalists.

The news people were making such a big deal about the dinner dynamic in the Spitzer household was when Eliot was a child. My parents did the same thing..so what? What does that have to do with client # 9?

As for Silda, I wonder how much her father in law had to cough up to get her to stay with #9.

Spitzer made a lot of enemies and apparently prosecuted a lot of them while he was breaking the law himself.

He filtered money to his political campaigns illegally.

He used Troopers to get dirt on his political adversaries.

He abused his power by pushing many indictments that ended
up with acquittals to make himself look like a “crusader
of justice.”

He engaged in the trafficking of women for prostitution ,
illegal money transfers,dipping the duckie while on
the taxpayers dime,and while he was prosecuting people for
doing the exact same thing he was doing.

Spitzer was a narcissistic a$$hole that didn’t care how
many lives he ruined with his political ambition.

Karma’s a B!tch ain’t it.

Kind of like watching the democrats do everything they can
to tear down the American Soldier and push for America’s
surrender in the war they voted for in Iraq just to gain Senate seats and the White House.

Everytime I see her standing with him, she looks like she is ready to haul off , sock him in the face and rip his lungs out. I wish she actually would, just for the entertainment value alone because he deserves it.

pilamaye on March 12, 2008 at 1:27 PM

my take on it

Spitzer is a slug of the lowest order.

cannonball on March 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM

Don’t go insulting slugs like that!

Seriously though, I obviously don’t know the dynamics of the Spitzer family but I’m hard pressed how you get beyond something like this. Not just the infidelity and possiblity that “dad” is going to be going to jail; but also the very public way this has all gone down. When all this broke, Spitzer should have gotten his family to a secluded place away from the glare of spotlights and speculation.

There, I suppose, is also the question of whether the Spitzers will divorce. I can only imagine the legal proceedings when two opportunistic Harvard educated lawyers divorce!

He did this for over ten years, and if that’s the case, then IT HAD to have leaked into his public life at some point, which it seems to me he desired a whole heaping fill of public life. And if he was frequenting hookers as AG, how in the hell is that NOT interfering with his “public” life.

What a prick. There aren’t enough swear words to explain what this tool has done.

Frickin liberals.

And I can’t believe his wife stood there by his side again like a Stepford wife.

fogw on March 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM

I can’t believe Spitzer had her there. The tasteful thing to do would have for him to get up there alone, tell the world that he is resigning because he’s a pig and ask the forgiveness of his family.

That being said, were I Silda Spitzer, I wouldn’t be in the same time zone and maybe not even on the same continent with the pig.