- http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez
Whatever you say Mr. Client #9. I bet the hookers were terrified of your ugly face.
- sDee
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
ew!
- kong1967
I wasn’t going to check the link but your “ew” comment made me curious. Now I regret it, lol.
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
LOL! sorry

- kong1967
Double ew!!
- tshtsh
The left never looks in the mirror. Mr. Spitzer is a sad example of a man. Rep. Santorum respects woman unlike the unfaithful and degrading treatment of woman kind by Mr. Spitzer. He will be lucky if his daughter do not judge men by his example.
- carmtom13
If I were Spitzers daughters I would not believe one word that comes out of his mouth. He has the lib talking points down pat.
- Amy
Yes, pathetic is an accurate description of Elliot Spitzer and anything that comes out of his mouth.
- rls77
After all, you don’t know where it’s been!
- mike payton
who’s the better father figure again? the man who stops his political campaign to be with his sick daughter or the man who has to stand in front of a camera with mommy and explain why he was spending thousands of dollars to have his carrot dipped in strange dip every week.
- kong1967
Ummm, that’s a tough question…..NOT !! Good post.
- BigHurt29
Is Elliot Spitzer still around? It makes sense that a criminal like him would have a problem with the prospect of a strong consistent conservative assuming the Presidency.
- warpmine
Spitzer has presidential credentials in as much as BillyJeff did, he’s a shoe in or is something else in?
- kong1967
Pardon my ignorance, but who is Billy Jeff? I typed it in Google and I got a Chippendale dancer.
- warpmine
One named William Jefferson Clinton
- kong1967
Doh!!! Of course. I’ve never heard him called that so it didn’t ring a bell.
- stage9
OF COURSE he’s afraid of men like Santorum; Santorum’s values are the closest thing to our founders you can get from a politician in this generation, and that scares liberal fascists to death. They would prefer Lenin to rise from the dead, act as their antichrist and lead them to the bowels of their utopian paradise….a place you and I refer to as hell.
- Nukeman60
I believe him. Santorum believes in God and Spitzer is terrified of what Santorum believes in. Yep. Get thee back to Hades, you sorry piece of worthlessness. Hopefully his daughters get away from that as soon as they can before it’s too late for them.
- nibblesyble
go nuke!
- Trust1TG
Heavenly Father, I pray that some time in the dark of the night, You, O God will repeat Spitzer’s words to him and open his heart, eyes, ears, mind to what he has said and done…that the Holy Spirit will convict him of sin, righteous judgment and of the Lordship, Truth, Love and Eternal Life of The Savior of the world, Jesus Christ…and that Spitzer will become like a brother to Rick Santorum…and a son to You, The Holy Living God. Amen.
- http://twitter.com/nestroyat64 Johann Streit
Get naked, Spitzer!
- http://twitter.com/shelly99032 Shelly Sands
MIND BLEACH MIND BLEACH!!!!!!!!! EWWWWW
- busyjimmy1
Idiot Spitzer’s exemplary record with young women makes him uniquely qualified to get on that moral high horse…
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000679899592 John Bohler
(goes to bathroom and pukes guts out)
- http://black-avenger-1.livejournal.com/profile VirusX
What he ought to be afraid of is catching hepatitis C from unprotected sex with prostitutes, and that they might write tell all books, detailing how he was anything other than a sexual athlete.
- kong1967
Isn’t it amazing how libs don’t get offended by pervs like Bill Clinton, Spitzer, and that other guy that sent his naked pictures out, but they get terrified offended by someone who actually respects women? Tells us how few morals they have.
- http://twitter.com/PuritanD71 PuritanD71
If the dem talking point is being scared of a Senator from PA, then Santorum is the man for the nomination of President of USA for the Republican party.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388784674 Joel Cruz
Well I have absolutely terrified for this future grandkids in the womb.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388784674 Joel Cruz
I am absolutely terrified for his future grandkids in the womb of his daughters.
- kong1967
I wouldn’t go that far. I’ve seen very liberal parents where the kid(s) grow up very conservative. Evidently their parents’ behavior made them see the light early.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388784674 Joel Cruz
I meant abortion rather than liberalism.
- kong1967
Ah, I simply misunderstood. Woops.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388784674 Joel Cruz
No worries.

- virginiagentleman1
Creep!
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OQI5D66OXO7X2FE4NVCZC7BAMA Joe
His daughters should be terrified of HIM and guys like Anthony Weiner
They should THANK Santorum for protecting them !
What a liberal and ugly POS!
Typical twisted liberal jerk!
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
OK yeah, I’ll take the word of a guy who had to pay for sex.
- kong1967
It says something about the liberal mind when they don’t even blink at the behavior of Clinton, Weiner, and Spitzer, but they have a cow when someone shows respect for women. Are liberal women really that dumb?
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
no, not just dumb, but- well to put it politely, seeing most liberal women, are we really surprised why these guys go elsewhere for fun?
- https://id.mixi.jp/9700106 Danny
You’re right, who would want Meryl Streep when they could have Barbara Bush!
Hate to break it to you, but both sides have more than their fair share of beautiful women.
- Nukeman60
Meryl Streep???? Beautiful??? It is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
- https://id.mixi.jp/9700106 Danny
Fine, why have Elizabeth Hurley when you could have Laura Ingraham?
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
Who’s to say Meryl won’t look like Barbara Bush when she gets that old. And I have to say, Barbara is not that bad for a woman her age- after all, she could look like this: http://media.photobucket.com/image/helen%20thomas/bumblepufff/sottise-en-quarantaine/Helen-Thomas-300×300.jpg?o=44
- https://id.mixi.jp/9700106 Danny
At Meryl Streep’s current age, Barbara Bush looked like this… http://0.tqn.com/d/history1900s/1/0/w/4/reagan4.jpg
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
LOL- some women are blessed with ageless beauty, I admit it. But still, there are a lot of pretty ladies on the Right, and not so mean sounding either.
- kong1967
Lol, good point. Watch Fox News if you want to see sexy women. Well, not you, but for guys.
I think the majority of women that support Democrats are dependent on government for survival. Hence, Democrats defend single motherhood with a passion.
- http://twitter.com/cfallon57 Cheryl Fallon
I wonder what Mr. Spitzer thinks of radical muslims!
- kong1967
I think he probably hates them because they sew womens’ vaginas shut. Not because of the cruelty but because he can’t pay his way into them.
Sorry, women, no disrespect intended with the comment.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/B2TGU6U2HFFSZUXHIPTQX36R3E Ana
Spitzer’s daughters should be more terrified of their own father’s moral compass! Do these folks ever think before they speak? Here’s a guy who pays for sex fearmongering about the man who stands up for the dignity of women…go figure!
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
kind of like the feminazis who bash women like Sarah Palin, yet when women are stoned to death in Islam there’s crickets.
- kong1967
He doesn’t hesitate to tell us how much liberal men disrespect women, does he?
- nibblesyble
What a sad little man. I think most people, even liberals tune him out, hence him losing his show on CNN(where they keep even the lowest rated on..Anderson Cooper being an example)
- http://onthemark1.blogspot.com/ On The Mark
What a maroon.
Ashley Alexandra Dupré is somebody’s daughter. Either Spitzer doesn’t really care about daughters or he just hopes his will be whores, too.
The principles and premises of scientific inquiry require the Christian worldview. You know.. the worldview Santorum holds.
- kong1967
He’s so afraid to be governed by someone with morals? Lol, unbelievable. There’s nothing to be afraid of unless he’s worried that Santorum will force his daughters to not get abortions. Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.
Santorum makes me angry because he focuses too much on moral values instead of the issues like the economy, but I’m not afraid of the guy. If he wins the one thing I can feel good about is that we are gauranteed not to have a President that has sex with his aides in the Oval Office.
- http://twitter.com/TO_New_York Tony
Yet they have no problems,justifying,excusing,apologizing and curtailing to Islamist’s.
It is clear that the Democtrats and other Modern Liberals have thrown Christians under a bus. They loathe us because at the very heart of their beliefs they follow the same path as Obamas mentor “Alinsky” who dedicated the book that Obama got his inspiration from to “Lucifer”.
- JoeMontana16
Funny that its always said by liberals that we don’t like science. They ignore science. Global Warming? Liberals denied science. Evolution, liberals denied science because they don’t seem to realize that the theory of evolution is exactly that…theory. If it was fact it would be called a scientific fact and not a theory. They neglect to talk about the Cambrian explosion. Pretty much destroys there propaganda. They don’t seem to understand that there is a difference between micro and macro evolution. How do they explain that there has never been case where species have crossed with each other. If anyone here would like a good read then buy the book Darwin’s Black Box. It explains that biology destroys Darwin’s theory. Its great when you confront liberals with this info. It makes them crazy cause they can’t argue with it.
- NCHokie02
Another good one is “A Case for Creation” pretty much destroys evolution and the random chance that life “just appeared” on earth.
- JoeMontana16
Read it. Lee stroebel is amazing. The Case for Faith is awesome too. I suggest people read your suggestion. Glad to see someone other than myself reading this stuff.
- NCHokie02
actually going through creation and why it matters at church these past couple of weeks. Some amazing insight. The more we find out in Science the more it begins to back up the bible and not the aethists.
- Nukeman60
The funny thing about science is that it is all about God and most of the time they fail to see that. Scientists are just trying to find empirical proof of God and His work. Most times, it’s very difficult to do. Science is guesswork and has to change, like the fact the Earth (and man) rotates around the sun (the Son). God’s Truth always existed, but science continually changes to fit His patterns.
As they discover more and more of God’s hand, they change their science. Once they find the whole Truth, they will then know God. It’s a lifetime search for mankind, but a worthwhile one for man.
- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
Well said my dear nukefriend! I sure wish you were on facebook!

- Nukeman60
Sorry, only facebook I know is if I’m trying to read while in the car and the driver hits the brakes

- http://no-apologies-round2.blogspot.com/ AmericanborninCanada
LOL Silly!
If you ever decide to get with the times, let me know! 
- NCHokie02
Exactly, its like they are trying to find the Wizard of Oz and pull back the curtain and go “Oh there He is.” But until that happens they refute it at all costs.
Richard Dawkins (known aethist) said that we don’t know how life began but he knew that God didn’t create it. I did hypothesis that perhaps space aliens planted cells on earth to begin life. So believing in God is not rational but believing that space aliens started life for no apparent reason is.
- Nukeman60
It always amazes me exactly how any one can claim they know something doesn’t exist. Proof is one thing, but non-proof is difficult to espouse.
Besides, believing that God doesn’t exist is a belief in itself and requires a God to not believe in. Sometimes, they believe in everything about God except for the actual existence of Him itself. Gets complicated. I prefer the simple.
- stevenbiot
He should be scared that a man like himself will date his daughters. If there ever were a true scumbag, Spitzer is that man.
- stevenbiot
The host said that what Eliot said was beneath him? If you can use taxpayer funds to pay for trysts with a prostitute, nothing is beneath you.
- ellebb
Me too !
- NCHokie02
Oh the Christian religion is sooo scary!! They have been keeping women under wraps for so long and keeping them down…wait thats Islam.
What is wrong with wanting to have a little modesty in society?? Perhaps he wants his daughters to go tramping around and sleep with guys like him for money. Good role model dad. Douche bag.
- destruction2
dirty jew.
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- ApplePie101
I’d be more terrified that my daughters live in a world where perverts like Elliot Spitzer can get into public office.
- denbren52
I wonder how his daughters felt when Client #9 was exposed as a pervert. Nice fatherly example there Elliot.
- gobnait
Did he say that with a straight face? Sir, I’d be far more concerned with my daughters getting involved with a man with the morals of an mangy, rutting alley cat like, um, yourself for example. You carried on with a prostitute while married and ran the risk of infecting your wife with a sexually transmitted disease and YOU’RE worried about a potential president who respects human life. Are you insane?!
- http://profile.yahoo.com/5YEBQMQXSXJ4UR7WGBS7JESSAU NJ
Why is Elliot given airtime on any network? There has to be literally hundreds of intelligent, non-pervert creeps that could take his place…
- Nukeman60
Imagine a network full of these creeps: Spitzer, Sharpton, Jackson, Schultz, Matthews, …no, wait. It occurs to me there is one. Eewww. I wonder who watches it?
- DavidRobertson
What we are witnessing here is the continued effectiveness of the media to dictate to the people what they should think and who they should vote for. Just this morning I was watching Fox and Friends while I was getting ready for work and their narrative from Britt Hume and others was that Santorum talks to much about social issues vs. the economy. I nearly threw my shoe through the television. The MEDIA is talking about social issues. They bring it up every millisecond they can. Santorum gets on TV and the only conversation is social issues–not by his doing, but by some person digging up an audio clip from many years ago and then asking him to re-defend it…or asking him to respond to someone else’s opinion of his opinion on a social issue. It is ridiculous. The media continues to beat the drum all along knowing that they are wearing the voter base down by influencing the uninformed.
Meanwhile, they run no–not any–negative stories on Romney. They don’t ask him about his support for issues that rub the base the wrong way. They don’t ask him why he can’t seem to decisively win his own state. They don’t ask him anything really. They have propped him up like an incumbent and have set him aside as if he has nothing to prove. All the while people like Newt and Rick who better represent the base are asked to defend how they breathe. It is sickening. We may be seeing the destruction of the Republican Party.
Sorry..just had to get that off my chest. Oh, and by the way, Fox News has lost a viewer. Tired of their “push to the center” (as if they weren’t there the whole time..more like “push to the left”)
- http://takeresponsibility.wordpress.com †♥ Dianne ♥†
I have to agree with you. I have been thinking the same thing lately. A little sick of the teleprompters, even for the reporters. You know everything is scripted. A little annoying to say the least. This nation has become a country full of puppets!!
- Trust1TG
Why has my comment on this thread been removed twice? It was well within the rules and did not contain racist, etc. content?
- anneinarkansas
Eliot Spitzer concerned about his daughters…..that is a good one!
- JayGatsby88
Santorum is bringing the fear to himself. The most talked about issue should be the economy, though Republican presidential candidates have deferred from this topic and have instead gone to the religious freedoms being taken over discussion… sigh. Santorum has dominated this discussion, as seen by taking JFK’s separation of church and state out of context (also calling Obama a snob for wanting people to go to college, which is one of the biggest indicators to future wealth). As a voter, I just want to hear issues that concern me, and that are relevant to the times, this GOP crafted topic is frivolous and dated.
Scaremongering, ha! That’s pretty much been what the right has done to Obama since he’s gotten in office… he’ll take away your guns (when in fact, he’s only expanded gun rights), he’ll raise your taxes (hasn’t happened… yet), Al-Qaeda will be dancing in the streets (he’s taken out how many top members now? Oh yeah, including the allusive public enemy #1), he wasn’t born in the U.S./is a muslim (sigh), he’s a socialist… Not to sound like a scaremonger, but I’d be concerned if Santorum were in office.
- K-Bob
I’m not sure why you’d be concerned. You already live in some Hollywood version of reality.
Obama has never “expanded” gun rights. You might want to look into Eric Holder’s long list of impeachable offenses regarding guns.
He has already raised taxes, and has caused automatic raises beyond next year to be signed into law.
He’s not “taken out” more members of Al Qaeda than any other President, by a long shot. And not to put too fine a point on it, but he had to wait eight hours to make a decision that any decent American would have made in six seconds. And that six seconds would only be to take enough time to be sure sure.
He is a socialist. Hey, you got that one right!
He’ll be dogged by “birther” and other issues about his past as long as he refuses to make any of it public.
- JayGatsby88
Am I though the one living in hollywood? I’d argue conservatives are the ones doing just this, desperate to live back in the 60′s rather than advance with the rest of the world.
Didn’t Obama allow for guns to be carried on Amtrak trains? What has he done to restrict gun rights?
The Bush tax cuts were preserved (for now) and there hasn’t been any increases other than excise tax on tobacco, tanning salons, and something else related to drug manufacturers. There are pending tax increases, yes.
We can agree he’s taken out the biggest member, correct? And that he hasn’t been soft on terrorism as predicted by GOP foes.
Making his past public such as… showing his birth certificate? You can’t get on a plane with forged documents, how in the world can you become leader of the free world??!!?
- Nukeman60
‘…how in the world can you become leader of the free world? – jg88
A very good question, indeed. One we hope to get answered, once the question reaches the Supreme Court. You can argue all day long about his birthplace, but it’s a fact that he’s not a ‘natural born citizen’ (both parents were not naturalized citizens at his birth). That point must be addressed in the Supreme Court only.
- KenInMontana
Obama merely signed legislation that lifted a ten year old ban on what had previously been “allowed”. You may want to read up a bit more on that legislation as it only applies the same rule to Amtrak that the airlines have had in place for years.
http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/11/30/new-amtrak-policy-to-allow-guns-on-trains/
- JayGatsby88
Ok, so where is the diminishing of gun rights that’s preached by the right?
- K-Bob
You simply repeated your charges but added qualifiers.
The trend you’d see if had the time to deal with your tedium is that you cannot engage a defense of the man, nor of Reid and Pelosi, because you’d need an endless stream of those qualifiers.You cannot get around the fact that these people have destroyed the economy by taking a recession and turning it into a protracted series of Japanese style collapses and near-recoveries, each time getting worse and worse.
I don’t care about his stoopid birth certificate. At this point I don’t care if he was born on Mars. You are aware that everything else in his past is sealed, right? High school, college, jobs, performance data, health records. EVERYTHING. And you want to point to his birth certificate? You know nothing about this man, other than the fact that everything he touches turns to crap.
And that’s his good side.
We’ll never know the more totalitarian things he’s done until long after he’s been booted out of office.
But hey, he parties with Stevie Wonder and George Clooney. He must be a great guy, right?
- JayGatsby88
His health records? Performance data? Lol, I’m not sure I need those things from my commander in chief. But what would you expect to find? Why do these things intrigue you? And him being King Midus of poop, I disagree. I’m more neutral/in positive standing with Obama. You joke, but his popularity within really cool circles likely does effect my opinion of him subconsciously. Similar to the way people gravitate toward Palin for her beauty and charm.
- K-Bob
They intrigue no one. You simply don’t know who he is, yet you seem fine with that. Strange admission.
- JayGatsby88
So how many presidents do we really know? Do you know the performance and health records of Clinton? Hoover? Herbert Walker Bush? Reagan?
My point is, I know enough about Obama. What is important to me is coming from a good school and doing well there, which I presume Obama has done, considering he graduated Harvard Law magna cum laude and was the first Black person to head the law review. Yes, I’m fine with that.
- K-Bob
You don’t know if he got the grades for that degree or not. He’s the only “head of Law Review” never to have published in the thing. He’s a total cypher.
Yes, you’re fine with that. I’m only too happy you got a chance to write that in a public forum.
- JayGatsby88
Dude, he graduated at the top of his class! How is that debatable? He didn’t publish anything, aren’t you over analyzing what isn’t important with regard to his background?
- K-Bob
I’m not the one hiding my background. Take it up with him.
- Nukeman60
‘Oh yeah, including the allusive public enemy #1‘ – jg88
Just some light reading, if you’re really interested in the background that isn’t spun by the LSM :
- Linky1
No, it’s not Santorum, it’s the slimestream liberal media who is whipping up the frenzy with new lows in fear mongering. Before you think I’m a Santorum supporter, I’m not, just a supporter of fair play. I know, fair play is an oxymoron is politics, but since I’m Canadian, I’m still silly (and polite enough, eh?) to believe that this concept MAY exist.
They have to be pretty desperate to haul out Elliott Spitzer (he of the hooker and failed CNN show fame) to opine on this.
In the meantime, look at your gas prices, the price of a barrel of oil, the fact that Obama has denied healthcare to US troops (remember Nasty Pelousy saying that you have to read the bill to see what is in it?), the situation in Syria, in Iran or ___________ (insert country of your choice) and realize that the Romney-bots, the Paulbots are all flash and no substance, so, the media being who they are and having the agenda (Obama’s re-election) that they do, will flame these stories till the next one comes along. They are the scare mongerers here, not the candidates.
- Sober_Thinking
Sadly, Neil Boortz is saying the same load of steaming weasel squeeze.
These heathens need to get right with God.
- Linky1
“Steaming weasel squeeze. ” I do like this analogy……….
- Sober_Thinking

Seemed appropriate…
- MiketheMarine
How is this @$$hat not still in prison? and why do people keep putting him on TV? He’s in the same catagory as “Rev” Jesse. Useless and biased…..
Did I mention criminal?
- PChandler
I’m absolutely terrified for Spitzers’s daugthers, living with a pimp, pervert and a sex offender like their dad.
The calumnies and libel against the opposition never stops, anything goes for these sociopaths.
- TPDanbo
Gee what’s next governor, calling Rick Santorum the “boogeyman” in scary bedtime stories!
- 911Infidel
Cliet number 9. Now what exactly can he bring to the table that anyone with half a brain cares to hear?
- DebbyX
We’re afraid of OUR daughters living in YOUR world!
- Dan
that’s because Almo-lyit Squrtiser is a reprobate pig and when a good person is within 100 miles he starts to melt and crap comes out of his huge…humongous…the size of Russia ears(he could give The SOB in Chief a run for the biggest ears…) and the demon he is starts to reveal its self….run away ..run away…..back to the whores you love more than your wife….you pig….
- longnian92
- Tall, Dark and Handsome
Client #9 speaks………………………….elliot, just go away, please.
- aZjimbo
Let’s see what world I would rather live in: Ricks or Elliots?
- Paulla
“Abortion is murder” IS science.
Definition of a human being is: a living organism containing human DNA. If killing a human being with intention to benefit from that killing is MURDER, then abortion is MURDER.
In some states, a murder of a pregnant woman is considered two murders. Religion has nothing to do with this; it’s all about the law. - taxa22620
what does it matter what this moron has to say!!!
- cheyennecowboy
You should be terrified!! Just plum scared to death!!
Disgraced Democrat Governor Elliot Spitzer says that he is absolutely terrified for his three daughters that Santorum could become president. He even goes as far to say that Santorum doesn’t believe in science, but a far-right theology that he describes as ‘terrifying’.
Talk about a scaremonger! Geez, what these Dems will say to win.
Just pathetic:
(via RadioEqualizer)
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