Spitzer’s demise is sweet to his enemies because…. well because he made enemies. As a prosecutor he made public accusations that were not followed up with indictments or charges. For a DA or prosecutor to publicly intimidate or accuse before the facts of the trial is an abuse of power, just as the prosecutor in the Duke University case abused the rights of the accused students in a massively public forum.
When a person like Spitzer charges forward so publicly, it clearly isn’t for the money, it is for the power. And as Clarice Feldman notes in Sociopaths in Office in the American Thinker, “anyone who really wants to wield power is, by that very fact, the last person who should be allowed to do so… the only person who can safely be allowed to wield power is someone who seeks it out of dedication to the cause of liberty.”
“But take away the love of liberty–and the ideological framework of individual rights that supports it–and we return to the squalid pattern of most of human history: power not only corrupts, but attracts, rewards, and promotes the most corrupt types of human character.”
“Without the love of liberty and the principles of liberty, we don’t get George Washingtons in public office. Instead, we get the Emperor’s Club VIPs–self-aggrandizing thugs like Eliot Spitzer.”
I see Hillary Clinton as also being driven more by the seduction of power than the love of liberty. Her willingness to turn a blind eye to the law when it applies to her or her husband or her staff (Sandy Berger, campaign finance scandals) is indicative of the same hubris displayed by Spitzer.
Her comments noting the need to overcome our obsession with individual liberty and replace it with a “village mentality” belies her obsession to control the policy of the village.
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