Spitzer

[Alex]

We all engage in personal dishonesties great and small and I don't see them as being in the same class as professional dishonesties. I've known dozens of people who were absolutely reprehensible people personally while being stalwarts of behavior and ethics professionally (and vice versa).

So no, I don't care if a politician is cheating on his wife. Like I said, I don't even know what arrangements they may have. Since I don't think prostitution should be a crime, I don't care if politicians do it. Just as I don't care if Bush is smoking weed every evening before going to bed or if Nancy Pelosi sells dildoes to her friends every time she's in Texas.

I do care about their decision making abilities however. And while I don't care about using prostitutes being caught doing so will, rightly or wrongly, have hugely negative consequences. And that is just poor decision making. And it is poor professional decision making (as well as, likely, poor personal decision making) and that isn't good.