If you had chosen to replace “a prostitution ring” with (for instance), “sexual misconduct” or something, then I’d buy your argument, but I don’t actually understand your kneejerk defensive reaction (and refusal to accept my point).

My point that Bill had a “zipper problem” was only that he, like Spitzer, has a proclivity for sex outside marriage.

Some executives are into old fashioned pay-to-play corruption (e.g. John Rowland), others are power hungry and paranoid (Nixon, Spitzer) and others have sexual urges that cannot be satisfied within their marriages (Bill, Eliot and countless others). In my book, that makes Spitzer both Clintonian and Nixonian

No suggestion that Bill paid hookers was ever intended. Credible allegations of sexual assault were made against him, however, which, if true would be much worse than paying for sex.

Maybe you consider it a “semantic” distinction, but while I wouldn’t argue that Bill Clinton has been faithful in his marriage, I’m not aware of him ever having been implicated with any connection to prostitution.

I think this deserves a retraction.

http://www.watergate.info/tapes/72-06-23_smoking-gun.shtml

You tell me.

Re the FBI, we now know who Deep Throat was and what he was doing. So I’m not sure your speculations hold much water in that regard.

Anyway, my point is that it is kind of accepted fact that Nixon did a lot of things that he never actually did.

Its unbelievable..

Didn’t Nixon also use the FBI to snoop on his political opponents and harass them? Now that’s really Spitzerian.

How about a little background on this. I googled a bunch of word combinations like “Nixon/political enemies/police” and didn’t come up with any examples. I’d be interested to know what Nixon did that was similar to what Spitzer did with his state police. Not saying he didn’t, just don’t know of any examples.