Infidelity, Elliot Spitzer, and Sanity

Is there any sane way to figure the infidelity that Elliot Spitzer has forced into the attention of so many people?

Did this guy figure he was just so smart and so hardworking that he could get away with denying/repressing/ignoring his own demons until he did something so selfish, cruel, stupid, and pathetic that it will be his legacy rather than the good things he did for all of us as Attorney General of New York?


It's not the human frailty, it's not the mistake, the sin, the transgression that sticks in my craw. These things do happen. They've always happened. And they don't get any more palatable with each occurrence.

It is the narcissistic lying about them to ourselves until we get caught that is sickening.

And by the way, I don't care how much the young prostitute in question was paid, it was not a victimless crime; not to Mrs. Spitzer, not to his children, and not to the young woman for whatever reasons of her own was paid an outrageous amount of money to be part of a rich and powerful man's acting out.