Eliot Spitzer is an idiot, and he deserved to be taken down, but for other reasons.

I personally don’t care about what politicians do in their personal lives. The fact that he spent $80,000 on hookers when he has a wife… I say “eh”…. that’s a marital issue…and possibly a financial one. And yes there are moral questions. But I believe in people having personal lives.

That is not to say I don’t think people shouldn’t have moral compasses. If you’re going to live by the sword, you should die by the sword; if you’re going to be so anal as a prosecutor, gain a reputation for swift enforcement of the law and for moral purity, than you should be held to that standard in your personal life. Nothing bothers me more than Republicans who are caught in gay sex scandals… or hell, any sex scandal, because it’s often the Republican who is “anti-gay” and “pro-family.”

What Eliot Spitzer did was wrong and I sympathize with his family and pray for his wife. I feel awful that he subjected her to a press conference on national televison, but that’s another issue.

Bottom line: judge politicians by where they stand. Private lives are private lives but if they prosecute and use the heavy arm of the law in their public life, you better believe they aren’t violating a double standard on themselves by holding up their end of the deal.