Spitzer Self-Destructs.

How about a good, old-fashioned Democratic sex scandal? In a political shocker today, New York Governor, rising Dem star, and purported ethics champion Eliot Spitzer appears to have an affinity for prostitutes. More to come after Spitzer's press conference, but, really, what was he thinking? Spitzer was no Jimmy Walker -- He's cultivated his squeaky-clean public persona as a moral crusader since day one. That was his whole cachet. And given the enemies he's made, there was no way on God's green earth he was going to be able to keep that sort of thing quiet. It's sheer idiocy on his part. Update: "I am disappointed that I failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself." Spitzer makes a brief statement, and word comes out of a wiretap. Stick a fork in him, he's done.

Update 2: Within an hour of the story's leak, Gov. Spitzer gets unpersoned by Team Clinton, with all traces of his existence removed from Clinton's website. (He endorsed her back in May.) Which makes it as good a time as any to note that, if he resigns this evening as some expect, Sen. Clinton loses a superdelegate. His likely successor, Lt. Gov David Paterson, would be the Empire State's first (and America's third) black governor, as well as New York's first blind one. He is already a Clinton superdelegate (although, according to some reports, potentially a wavering one.) While on the subject, Obama picked up two more supers today regardless. Update 3: It doesn't seem Spitzer is resigning tonight.