Eliot Spitzer: category-buster
Wednesday March 12, 2008
Categories: Democrats
John Podhoretz on why Eliot Spitzer was in a league of his own: The fall of Eliot Spitzer offers a reminder, after two years of tawdry Republican scandals used to brilliant advantage by Democrats, that misbehavior by public officials knows...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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"Conservatives tend to view the world through a moral framework, and this makes them susceptible to believing that others are immoral because they do not do so."
Conservatives only believe "others do not do so". It simply is not true.
"Liberals tend to view the world through a framework of compassion,"
True.
"and this makes them susceptible to believing that others are heartless because they do not do so."
Demonstrably true.
Conservatives think everything is your own fault.
Liberals think everything is someone or something else's fault.
Ho, ho, ho, it's tragic
You know
Governor Spitz' and a ho
- after Pilot, "It's Magic"
Since both what Letterman might call the governhor's "pocket veto" and the publicity surrounding its peccadilloes had an impact on his fate greater than did his professions of crusading virtue, we see revealed once more the 'pen is' mightier than his word...
Word on the street has it that any working girl surpassing her sisters on the "manual" labor aspect of their "blue"-collar rounds would likely earn that year's PullSpitzer Prize, awarded annually in a black-tie, pearl-necklace gala by the Connubia Tool of Broadblasting...
And speaking of J-school, nice to see Rod casting Pod on the fly...
Good Post. I tend to agree Conservatives tend to view the world through a moral framework. I was completly shocked when this broke. Especially being one that has worked on wall street
I thought this was an interesting take on the whole deal:
http://theuncommonsenseblog.com/blog.asp?id=169
Jeez. I wouldn't have thought anything could make me feel sorry for Eliot Spitzer. Much as I dislike his actions, however, I would still grant him his humanity, rather than reducing him to the status of "an Appetite in human form."
Another prosecutor bites the dust!
Now onto Fitzgerald!
Even if "JPod" had any moral credibility, this seems just bitter...
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