Saturday - April 12, 2008

Does private morality effect public job performance?

"It’s a private matter.”

“It doesn’t effect his job.”

Once again, a liberal Democrat was caught with his . . . appendage. . . where it didn’t belong. Eliot Spitzer resigned the governorship of New York for patronizing a prostitute. Predictably, the liberals have circled the wagons to defend Spitzer’s behavior. I intend to show that their arguments don’t hold water.

Argument #1: “It’s a private matter.”

Sounds good doesn’t it? Except for one thing: Spitzer is a married man. At the very least, one other person is now involved, his wife. Not very private. But that’s not all…

The Spitzers are married. Is THAT private? NO.

To get married, you exchange vows in front of the following:

1. A representative of the State.
2. A representative of your church. (#1 and #2 could be the same person)
3. At least two witnesses. (usually the ‘best man’ and the ‘maid of honor’)
4. friends, family, etc.

Marriage is not a ‘private’ matter. You cannot get married privately.

I go further:

During the marriage ceremony, Gov. Spitzer and his wife exchanged vows. For the sake of argument, I’m going to assume their vows were similar to the ones I gave to my wife.

The vows my wife and I exchanged included:

I promise to love, honor, and cherish…

Despite my strongest encouragement, my wife would NOT promise to obey me as is traditional. (sigh)

But it gets worse. My vows, and I’m assuming that Eliot Spitzer’s, also included a phrase like:

cleave to one another and forsake all others…

I don’t know the exact wording, but my vows were very like this. Discriminatory vows. Perhaps Eliot didn’t want to ‘discriminate’ against all those 22 yr old hookers…

So, Eliot Spitzer, as a married man, took an oath (marriage vows) and then broke them. We now know his word is worthless.

Next, this liar is sworn in as Governor of New York. Remember, the libs say that visiting a prostitute doesn’t effect how he does his job… His personal vice will not show up in his public administration.

First, he was sworn in as Governor. I’m certain that the oath he took included a phrase similar to the following: “I will uphold and enforce the laws of the State of New York.” And as Governor, having taken an oath to uphold and enforce the laws of the State of New York, Spitzer turned right around and broke said laws. I lived in New York in 1982 and prostitution was illegal then. I’ve not heard that New York legalized prostitution since then.

The investigation has shown that Spitzer has been patronizing hookers for years. Which begs the question: As Attorney General, who was going around shutting down brothels, how did he decide which brothel to shut down? Did they not give him enough of a discount? I assume he didn’t pursue the brothels he patronized.

Don’t try to tell me that private vice doesn’t effect public duty.

Posted by Christopher     on 04/12/2008 at 12:15 AM   
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