Nobody here has pointed out that Spitzer and Clinton were ripe for blackmail to keep their secret from the public. So absolutely yes, it does affect their ability to perform their job. In the case of Spitzer, it wasn't just hypocritical, it wasagainst the law, and frankly, public officials are role models for our citizenry, not the least of which are children. To say it's been going on for years doesn't make it right or something that should be tolerated.

I remember so well aquote from my first day at the State Police Academy in Jan 1962, Gentlemen , let me remind you that a womens a## or a whiskey glass will make a horses a## out of you"....