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Spring is here, and life is coursing again through all creation. Some of this appears to be resurrecting the corpse of Eliot Spitzer's career in public service.
Full disclosure: I'm a big fan of Eliot's, still have a sticker from his 2006 campaign in my collection, and consider his TV ads to be some of the best ever produced, a pitch-perfect mix of aspiration and persuasion.
Certainly, the man himself seems to feel the energy, and he's got friends. Then, there's The New York Post:
"I love politics," Spitzer told [Peter] Elkind, author of "Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer."
"The substance, the debate about the issues. As for a race in 2010? It is just hard to see," he said. But he added, "I've never said I would never consider running for office again."
So let's game this out. A race against the dragon-slayer Gillibrand? Unlikely. A death-match against Andrew Cuomo? Equally unlikely. Charles Schumer? Also not going to happen.
That leaves Attorney General, which he's done before, and Comptroller. Of the two, the latter seems more likely; and given that it would be perfectly reasonable to assume little love lost between Spitzer and Silver selectee Tom DiNapoli, the 2014 Comptroller race might be very interesting indeed. |
