the problem with the spitzer example is that Spitzer KNEW he was going to get caught ... some might see Spitzers actions as an "escape" for a man who wanted out, and had no way out from the track of success, except a moral failure.
c'mon now, he was the attorney general, do you seriously think he didn't know he was going to get caught?
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Sincerely,
David