Spitzer's collapse that preceded his ruin by Lawrence Auster

There is in the New York Times a revealing profile of Eliot Spitzer's increasingly troubled reign and troubled mind as governor of New York in the months before his fall. The particular thought I derive from the piece is that it was Troopergate--his use of state police to gather damaging information on his main political rival Joseph Bruno--that brought him down. Once that scandal broke last July, Spitzer never had an adequate and truthful response to the questions about his own involvement in it, and was in a steady cover-up mode. Yet the media, especially the New York Post (which despite its utter corruption and hypocrisy has its purposes), would not let the matter drop. But there were many other things bothering Spitzer, as the below vivid scene from the article shows.

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