but then again I'm not a big fan of Eliot Spitzer either; so, what's a woman to think? 

The problem with being a self-righteous prig who uses high profile prosecutions and heavy handed tactics to bootstrap yourself into the governor's office is that when you make a misstep there are very few there to give you a hand up.  Had Eliot Spitzer not crossed the line more than once in his tracking down of a wide variety of mostly white collar criminals, he might now be able to ask for a little compassion for his situation, if not for himself then for his family.  While I do think the pain of his wife, children and parents should be considered just out of some baseline of civility, it is hardly likely that there will be much sympathy available even amongst Democrats (I, on most days this political season, being one myself).  The Big E has been just too much of a hypocrite to let this one ride.  When will politicians and ministers learn: if you're going to make moral political hay, don't stick your pitchfork in the sins you yourself commit.  I can't even cut him the slack that I give to gay basher Larry Craig for being caught perhaps picking someone up in an airport mens room; there has seldom been as clumsy a case of entrapment as the bathroom sting that ensnared Senator Craig - even hypocrites have rights.

Of course, ES might be able to plead diminished mental capacity.  How else can one explain a Princeton and Harvard educated former Attorney General who has participated in busting prostitution rings being so jackass stupid?  How long do you think it took before the call girl he allegedly overpaid to figure out he wasn't George Fox but instead the governor of the state in which she plies her trade?  Can you imagine being in that wiretap van (I've seen too many episodes of Law & Order, it probably wasn't a van at all) when the guy with the headphones leaned over to his partner and said, "Tell me, Charlie, does this sound like Eliot Spitzer to you?"  Spitzer's actions are so beyond the pale moronic that I almost agree with Bill O'Reilly - and if I can help it I never agree with Bill O'Reilly - when he says that it was deliberate self-destructive behavior designed to get Spitzer out of the governor's chair.  Well, trust me, he's out; "maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of (his) life."

And, unfortunately, if the men and women who ran the escort service and the call girl are charged, then he too much be charged.  I hate writing those words because we could be talking the Mann Act here which would have Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York and two time New York State Attorney General, indicted for inducing someone to cross state lines for immoral purposes; these are the kinds of charges that destroy lives, not just the life of Mr. Spitzer but the lives of all of those who love him.  Other than as leverage, the Act is seldom used in cases such as this; it is meant to combat sexual slavery, human trafficking, to protect minors.  However, if we choose to prosecute only the owner, the madam and the call girl and not the john - who in this case knew far better than any of the other players what the penalties could be - then we are as hypocritical as Mr. Spitzer.

Mr. Spitzer may indeed be battling some dark inner demon or he may just like it rough; I don't know and it really, really isn't any of my business or anyone else's business as long as he does battle or gets rough with a consenting adult.  Still, despite my own dislike of prosecuting grown-ups for engaging in consensual sex, Mr. Spitzer made that call for himself when he made that call for a call girl.  He broke the law; hell, he broke several laws.  He knocked important issues off of the front pages during an election season.  He gave Charlie Gasparino something to crow about - that alone is almost a capital offense. 

I wish I could think differently.  I wish I could support him.  I wish he weren't such an ass.

A quick addendum:

Asking Mr. Spitzer to resign in this situation is not meant as a blanket condemnation of the prosecutions he undertook during his time in office; indeed, his reputation might be ever so slightly put on the mend by acting in concert with the standards he used to measure others.  In light of recent revelations concerning the path of the investigation, it might be more appropriate if he were charged under the appropriate money structuring laws rather than the Mann Act.  The admirable intent of the Mann Act to combat human trafficking should not be diluted to catch highly paid call girls and their clients.