By Tommy Jadoo 
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is involved with prostitutes. With corruption on the Democratic side, what will this mean for the presidential hopefuls?
Her name was “Kristen” and he was surreptitiously referred to as Client 9, a prestigious member of The Emperor’s Club. It’s a mid February night and the two agree to meet at the Mayflower Hotel, room 871, across state lines and under the lights of the nation’s capitol. Passions flare through the evening before the two lovers slip away under cover of darkness, perhaps to never see each other again.
It could be a scene lifted from a Jennifer Blake romance novel until you realize two things. First, “Kristen” is a hired prostitute (part of a prostitution ring known as “The Emperor’s Club”) and second, Client 9 is New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer (married).
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” Spitzer 
confessed in a Manhattan news conference today. The New York Times first reported the story early this afternoon and MSNBC has been leading with the story for much of the day, in reports that are suspiciously lacking in mention of Spitzer’s political affiliation.
When conservative-leaning pundits get a hold of this, and they most certainly will, it is likely that Spitzer’s political party will be the center of focus. It is too golden an opportunity for anti-Democratic factions to pass up, especially considering Spitzer’s recent endorsement of the Clinton campaign for
presidency. 
Couple that with the sting still being felt from the scars of the Mark Foley (R-FL) underage intern scandal and Senator Larry Craig’s (R-ID) bathroom foot-tapping incident and right wingers will have more than enough emotional impetus to attack the Democratic governor. Chalk one up for the party of Reagan.
What will this mean for the presidential hopefuls? Hillary and Obama have yet to offer any official statements referring to the details of the case. The New York senator stands the most to lose in light of the aforementioned endorsement and the corruptions in her past – Whitewater, Travelgate, just to name a few – that will likely resurface. If Obama has any political sense at all, he will group Spitzer’s recent illegal actions with the corruptions of the Clinton administration and suggest that these are characteristic of the “old” Democratic Party (with Hillary and Spitzer as poster boys). Obama is the new era. He’ll stress hope and change once again, leaving content to be filled in by voter imagination.
The real winner is McCain. Bad Democratic press is good Republican press and the 72-year old senator, having been ignored recently by the media, will take what he can get.
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