Christina’s Common Sense

There’s a contingency in the American political scene—usually more vocal when their guy’s in hot water—who say that a man’s personal life has nothing to do with his governing abilities. I think that’s demonstrably quite false and utterly ridiculous. After all, if he can’t control himself whatever makes us think he can control a state?

Now-ex-New York Governor Elliot Spitzer is the latest victim to this movement. After a long career spent moralizing over the evils of adultery, poor ole Spitfire has found himself at the center of a scandal involving not only extramarital affairs, but incredibly high-priced extramarital affairs on the people of New York, seeing as they pay his salary and all.

Spitzer has now resigned, as well he should. He’s a public figure, and whether he likes that or not he’s called to a higher standard than, say, laymen who blog for a living. Spitzer can’t be trusted to keep a promise to his family, so how can we now expect him to lead a state?

It was right of Spitzer to resign from his office. He has lost his credibility and can no longer lead as effectively as he could before. Besides, it will give New York its first black legally blind governor. Does it get any better for the affirmative action crowd than that?

Early this morning, a bomb struck a recruiting station in New York City. Had the explosion taken place during business hours, it would likely have proved fatal to anyone in the building.

I have to wonder why it is that any crime against a black, a woman, a homosexual, or any other professional victim groups are denounced as hate crimes while a bomb in a recruiting station—you know, where people are recruited to defend professional victims’ rights to be professional victims—is called a small bomb that did no damage. People could have been killed, and it attracts less indignation than Paul Shanklin’s parody “Barack the Magic Negro” (which was based on an actual article in the LA Times).

We need know nothing more about where the Left’s loyalties lie than that they are quicker to defend the likes of Al Sharpton than David Petraeus. Since liberals don’t seem to hold our military in very high regard, I wonder how they’d like to live in a world without it? Hm?

To quote Albert Brennaman in Hitch: “Think it over.”