Beldar Blog, who is a trail lawyer in addition to being a blogger, has one of the best pieces yet written about the imminent legal troubles of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer (D), in which he concludes:
Count me as one observer who is hoping that Spitzer’s propensity for bullying torpedoes his plea negotiations, and that as a result, he refuses to resign, and he goes “all in” and calls the feds’ bet. The history of those who’ve called such bets, thinking that the feds were really just bluffing, is not a pretty one.
Moreover: If the press reports are correct and it’s actually Spitzer’s wife who’s urging him not to resign, then my sympathy for her has dropped to zero. We’re talking cosmic, genuinely Clintonesque degrees of co-dependency and enabling here. I do pity their poor daughters for having two parents who are dangerously out of touch with reality.
I have zero sympathy for her just for standing up there next to him on stage while he “apologizes”.
I saw Dina Matos McGreevey, wife of disgraced cheating (and, as it turns out, gay) Jim McGreevey on one of the nightly news programs last night — she was talking about all the images of women standing up on stage next to their husbands while they apologized for their prostitution scandals, intern shaggings, and gay-sex shenanigans.
She said that it was done for one reason — to show the world that the transgression was “no big deal”. Their presence on that stage with their husbands says, “If I can stand here and forgive him, then you should too.” It’s the wife’s way of preserving their husbands power and/or their financial success.
This is all that Silda Spitzer was doing.
I feel very badly for their kids. But not Mrs. Spitzer.
A little judgmental, no?
Really, you have no way of knowing what’s going through Mrs. Spitzer’s mind. Attacking a woman who has done nothing wrong is a little unseemly.
Left by Preston on March 12th, 2008 at 2:46 pm