Whatever happened to just going away?  From Newsday.com:

Consider yourself warned. Ex- Gov. Eliot Spitzer, long on pride and short on shame, might try for a comeback, even if he now says otherwise.

Last week he showed up with wife Silda Wall at a Waldorf- Astoria fundraiser, schmoozing and posing for photos. He was quoted as defending his just-ousted transit appointee Lee Sander, in an implicit criticism of Gov. David A. Paterson. He’s been on TV – only after insistent invites, he noted on one station – holding forth on such matters as the AIG collapse.

Also last week, a Marist poll said 51 percent of registered voters (44 percent in the suburbs) would prefer him to Paterson as governor. This just means Paterson – whom Spitzer made his successor – has amazingly low ratings. But a true political creature would take it as the public craving his return.

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