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Re: Who Wanted the Head of the New York Governor?

domajot — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:33:26 -0000

Speculations of this kind are rampant in NY, but mostly on the sidelines.

Politics is part of everything these days, and it is legitimate to wonder who decides which public figures are investigated and which not. I would not be surprised in the least if for every Spitzer caught in the headlights, there were two others thankiful that they were not.

The botttom line is, though, that Spitzer did what he did
The irony is that he was caught by mechanisms that he, himself, supported.

Re: Who Wanted the Head of the New York Governor?

AustinRoth — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:23:35 -0000

"the local IRS and bankers sure did go after Spitzer"

Well, by that definition, any investigation or action that involves two or more people is a 'conspiracy'.

I like to stick the the concept that malfeasance needs to be attached to the conspirators before we let it rise to the level of a conspiracy.

Re: Who Wanted the Head of the New York Governor?

rudi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:44:49 -0000

Was this a national conspiracy (no), but the local IRS and bankers sure did go after Spitzer with a zeal equal to Spitzer's attacks on Wall Street. Like Clinton, if Spitzer keep his zipper shut he wouldn't have this problem. Lighten up, the international perspective is to be read with a little doubt.

Re: Who Wanted the Head of the New York Governor?

CStanley — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:06:44 -0000

I guess that Rush Limbaugh is part of the conspiracy but his role was to act in a way to try to throw people off track, by promoting assistance to Hillary Clinton so that people wouldn't realize that Clinton is truly the Dem candidate that's most feared by the GOP.

Or something like that.

Another reason this is a silly conspiracy theory: are we to believe that getting rid of ONE Dem superdelegate (which puts a different Dem in his place, whose intentions of which Dem candidate he'll support I think are unknown at this time) is actually going to influence the outcome? Or is the theory that the GOP is currently working to find scandals that will force the resignation of a large number of the superdelegates that are pledged to Clinton?

Re: Who Wanted the Head of the New York Governor?

AustinRoth — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:17:59 -0000

Oh please.

Now we are supposed to pay attention to Russian conspiracy theorists? Aren't are own good ol' US-of-A, home-grown crackpots loony enough for you?

Nothing bad or good, anywhere, anytime, can avoid being latched on to by those who must have a conspiracy for EVERYTHING to play with.

Conspiracies do happen, but that is not the same thing as everything can be explained by a conspiracy.