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Con-fashion?

The red represents power, the stripes are for the felony, and the arm-wear tells us that they didn't always have to pay for it. It's the corporate version of Russian mafia tattoos. (Not visible - diamond tattoos on each knee)

No, if you'll look carefully, you'll see the diagonal stripes on the 'scarlet' tie are reversed between the two pictures. So there's no pattern at all.

@baldbaby: Bar sinister? Good heraldry. Bad PR. Bummers.

I see they're both wearing flag pins... I guess this means that Obama is even less patriotic an American than these guys.

Rep ties = I went to Harvard Law but now I'm fucked

Um...pearl necklace?

Slides of March!

And the innocent powder blue represents a wife who hasn't been fucked in years. And the pearl necklace represents the pearl necklace their husband gave his whore/male lover last time he came on their face.

This is fun!

I'm Spitzered out. Wake me up when there's a Sonny Perdue sex scandal.

Wait....maybe the direction of the stripes indicates sexual preference?

@Serolf Divad: But their wives aren't. Which means that they're even less proud of our country than Michelle Obama is.

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: No, no, southern politicians aren't outed. They are the soul of aristocratic discretion. Plus they pay better. Conversely, this makes them more vulnerable to dirty money scandals.

Also, Sonny keeps the rains coming with his prayers.

Is the angle of the stripes like the hanky system?

No snark here... I honestly feel for Silda. Do what I didnt and dump the bastard.

There can't be a Sonny Perdue sex scandal. Even Atlanta prostitutes have standards.

What's with Spitzy's fartface in that pic?

What is it with these wives? Before this whole Spitzer thing came out I remember seeing a collection of photos from the last 10 years or so of shellshocked political wives standing by their husbands while they publicly admit to being adulterers/ whoremongers/ pedophiles and other disgusting things. If my husband pulled that shit, (1) the divorce petition would be filed before the press conference, and (2) yours truly would be drunk on a beach in the caymans and not taking calls from the press, definitely NOT standing there by the asshole with a dazed look on my face in a pearl necklace.

Then again, I think you would have to be crazy to marry anybody in politics in the first place.

The only difference is in the facial expressions of the wives. One is in fully medicated stand-by-her-man mode, the other is pondering which divorce attorney to call once this asshole finishes speaking.

@queerbubbles: I feel you. Gotta feel bad for the wife and kids. These assholes are so selfish, they never think how it will affect the wife and kids.

Bastard.

This would be one occasion when I would want to make damn sure my barn door was zipped up.

@queerbubbles: Yeah, I'm sorry for her too. None of this stand by your man shit.

I always teared up during the part of the Disney movie when Eliot Spitzer's mother went nuts at the circus and they had to lock her down, but she still snuggled baby Eliot with her trunk.

@Yellowbug2001:So, you don't respect Hillaryous' decision?

@Canuckledragger: Nosir.

@Yellowbug2001: I hear ya, sister. Can you imagine having to endure and suffer through all of Bubba's bullshit because you know it's your only shot at becoming the first female President and then still losing? That's a special kinda pain, reserved for only the most deserving. Damn! What did she do in her past lives to earn such a cruel, cruel fate?

Dark suit, white shirt, red tie...isn't that recommended attire for politics in general?

@Canuckledragger: Jesus christ no... when it was all going down I was about 15 and lil me was staring at the TV screaming about how if any man pulled that crap with me he'd be on his ass faster than he could call a cab.

And then I turned 22... and lost my spine apparently.

Mrs. Vitter sported a polyester leopard-skin top from Fredrick's dollar-bin clinging to her doughy boobidge, a virtual doppleganger of her paid-whore counterpart.

@Yellowbug2001: There was something at Slate about why "stand by your man" is the best option -- it ends the pain more quickly. If she had walked out, there would be three times as many questions. Standing by your man is the path of least resistance, and sometimes that's the best path to choose. Drama begets more drama.

@queerbubbles: Perhaps she married for power, which would explain the 'stand by your man' until he resigns or is booted from office. Hard to give up that stuff.

Or perhaps she loves him enough to forgive.

@oneninesevenfour: Ahh, good point. Of course, it's from Slate, so one must take it with a grain of salt on the rim of a large margarita.

@queerbubbles: Don't feel bad- a woman who is not an idiot about men at 22 is a very special and unusual woman indeed. I never got cheated on, but I dated a complete asshat and put up with some absurd shit that I would NEVER put up with today (at decrepit 29 :) ). One of those "Newsweek Special Edition: Wonders of the Mind" things told me the brain isn't really fully developed until you are 25, and I put it down to that. But these wives should be old enough to know better.

@oneninesevenfour: Yeah, I guess I could see the appeal of that. But how awful. Again, one more reason not to marry a politician.

In 1982, Silda, a Baptist from NC, married fellow Harvard student and Rhodes Scholar, Peter Stamos. The marriage lasted 29 days. She married Spitzer in 1987.

A former chief of staff to Senator Bill Bradley and a big Democratic fundraiser, Stamos now runs Sterling Stamos, a $3 billion money management firm. His partners at Sterling Stamos are the Wilpon family, the owners of the New York Mets.

What was that all about? Maybe Silda isn't into oral sex or something very basic. Not that I'm making excuses for her husband or anything.

E.F. Benson writes at length about this. A contrite man can be made to do just about anything. In this way a wronged Miss Mapp connived a sinning Major Benjy Flint, a confirmed bachelor, into marriage.

Everybody knows, tie stripes down and to your right mean you're gay. It's like an earring in the right ear.

@palmbeachmaven: The footnoted WSJ blog continues:
>> Silda's Doppleganger?: She [Silda] sat down with Hillary Clinton last year to discuss how to handle the role of political spouse. "I figured, here's a woman who also met her husband at law school, who had been a lawyer with a firm, whose husband was a state attorney general before he ran for governor," said Ms. Spitzer of Senator Clinton. "There really aren't that many role models for this."<< [blogs.wsj.com]
I want to gag.

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Chickens? Now that's just plain sick!

But how many whore diamonds should one wear?

@Pupster: At some point these idiots start believing their own press hype, start to believe they're untouchable. Arrogance begets blindness and the get brought down over some stupid-ass mistake in judgement. Oops. No snark. Sorry.

Is this a photo from Spitzer's speech yesterday or at the book announcement of his new book, "The Audacity of My Penis"?

Putting on the Spitz.

@byteArranger: I don't know if it applies to Spitzer, but I think there is also a certain type of person who is drawn to politics because, on some level, he WANTS to get caught doing something appalling, and politics is a good way to get caught. I read a description of Bill Clinton somewhere- I think in Malcom Gladwell's "Blink"- that he is the kind of person who wants to get caught with his "hand in the cookie jar" and for everyone to love him anyway. And think of all the gay dudes who run for office spewing crazy hateful homophobic stuff.

@Canuckledragger: @oneninesevenfour: @Yellowbug2001: I can only think that the wives knew/suspected/had to know what was going on and were hoping to somehow change the ways of their alpha male (good luck with that), in time to save their political careers, the end result being good for both gander and goose?

Something like, even though you don't like all the jerks on your team, you still play as hard as you can to get the win? Trying to think like a politically ambitious wife here.

But I'm right there on the beach with ya.

Somewhere, Roger Clemens is breathing a sigh of relief.

@lascauxcaveman: Wow, yeah, I hadn't thought of that. Gross.

I bet he fucked Chandra Levy to death, too.

@Canuckledragger: I just KNEW you'd find a way to connect Hillary to this.
Sucks that you can't vote here, huh?

(Thanks for not posting this on Jezebel, as there would be at least 200 comments already.)

Man, is it me or do those two Broads look like the same person? Maybe if you squint a little?

That's beautiful ... if only the women were beautiful enough to prevent their hubbies from going gay or kinky.

Guess they didn't hit the Botox enough.

[img src="http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_08_hilspitz.jpg" ]

Well, all us demicrats are saying, once again, THANK GOD its with a woman...

Mike (grad of a hillbilly school)

@amygdala1: Indicates "Fart w/ Lump."

@lascauxcaveman: "marry for power?" You bet! I suspect many political wives never had such a good ride (pun intended).

@Darehead: Comment on Recommended Attire For Public Confessions Con-fashion? It's what one wears in the Pro-Fession! m II

Perfect casting for the Spitzer hooar-downfall screenplay treatment...husband-wife team of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson!

it's the pearls and the Kingpin of a husband. Guilt never looked so good.

My guess on the necktie. The picture on the left, the tie was put on by another person facing him; the picture on the right, he did it himself. If she was on the ball, she knew (unless she put the tie on him).

She stopped swallowing so he Spitzer.

I think the wives should wear chicken suits to these things from now on. It'll add much-needed levity for the press. It'll distract children accidentally watching. And it'll make the rest of us think, "My GODS - chicken-sex wasn't enough?!

You mean the outfit of contempt and wait-until-we-get-home glare?

silda wall spitzer is a beautiful woman and wouldn't put it past her to have her own little emperors club. isn't it amazing, that people who have the world by the tail, pay for sex, when you have a beauty queen for a wife.

I know that this may sound sort of simple, but don't Governors have interns?

McGreevy's wife does look pretty doable. I ahve seen better pictures of Silda