It would take an Orson Wells to make a movie that would do justice to the Eliot Spitzer saga.
If any of the Spitzer daughters are reading this, please stop now.
Fisch is right:
Plus, sometimes an act like this, where someone risks such huge amounts for something so foolish, has to be looked at as a sickness. Seriously, he must have had some sort of sex addiction to be begging dirty prostitutes to have bareback sex with him. He is a sick man. That doesn't mean he isn't guilty, but maybe somewhere deep down, his wife recognizes this.
From the comments at Alarming News: Who are these women?
There is a sickness obvious in Spitzer, but it isn't so much sex addiction as power addiction. (I'm not huge on the sex=power equivalence, but here it works, I think.)
I mean, Spitzer made at least part of his reputation by putting prostitutes in jail. Any bets on whether or not banging a girl he could put in the slammer was part of the attraction for him?
And of course, part of real power is being able to say screw the rules whenever it suits your own id's needs.
And to continue the theme, how powerful must it have felt to have his wife stand by him like a good dog while the rest of the world reviled him? He can't throw her in jail, but at least he could throw her to the wolves. He probably wanted to have hot make-up sex right after that news conference.
Spitzer is an example of the worst that are attracted to politics, and how political power can make a bad man into a monster. Were he smarter, he might have had a chance to be be President someday.
Now there's a cautionary thought for you.