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Now that the world knows that Eliot Spitzer has a hooker problem, I think the Commonwealth has something to say to the Empire State: “Ha. Ha. Ha. Welcome to Frankfort, circa 2002.”
Despite the fact that there’s some bigger issues at hand here– it’s a campaign year, and the RNC is already carpet-bombing away with emails about “Spitzer’s Dirty Money”– I don’t think he’ll do what people want him to and resign. Obviously my experiences are colored here, because I assumed that Gov. Patton was to be left for dead, as well, only to see him hold on until the end of his term, but unless Spitzer is indicted (a very real possibility), I think he’ll serve out his term.
Despite being a grade-A jerk, Gov. Spitzer was a rising star in the Democratic Party, and reportedly had his eye on 2012/2016. This all puts a stop to that…unless it doesn’t. He’s in office through 2011 unless he is removed via impeachment or recall, and frankly, I think he’ll try to hold on for dear life right now, let the election news cycle wash over him, and then make the sort of comeback from the dead that Richard Nixon would grin and chuckle about.
Think I’m crazy? I think Kentucky has a Governor who took that approach to scandal, as well–only the elections were midterms, and his “comeback never happened. Gov. Spitzer would do well to examine that train wreck, as well as Patton’s, as case studies in managing a PR crisis. He may yet fare better than our errant officeholders.
