Spitzer’s Back, and Good Luck to Him

Give one thing to Eliot Spitzer: he hasn’t lost his ability to grab the headlines. By announcing his return to politics on the Sunday evening after July 4th, one of the quietest news days of the year, he guaranteed himself a burst of publicity. And, sure enough, when I went down to the local supermarket this morning to pick up the papers (I’m still out on Long Island, taking a break) there was his unmistakable mug staring out from the front pages of the Post and the News. And on the coveted right-hand column of the Times front page, the headline: “SPITZER REJOINS POLITICS, ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS.”

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