Draft Spitzer

I love this guy:

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whose investigations of white-collar crime have shaken the nation's financial institutions, said Tuesday he will run for governor in 2006.

"The state is at a point of crisis," the Democrat told The Associated Press. "We are bleeding jobs. We need reform in the process of government."

Reform. That's the road to victory, friends.

It's not unprecedented to have a governor with limited experience sweep right into the White House. Wilson went from 2 years as New Jersey governor to President. Cleveland did the same in New York. That was a different time, but even GW had only a 6-year stay in the Texas State House.

Of course, you know that the Republican counter-argument against him would be on foreign policy experience. In peacetime I think Spitzer could win in a landslide. Of course, the Republicans would never admit there was a peacetime even if there was one. But anyone that could come up with this line has a shot:

He said his goal is "to make the Empire State once again the center of job creation, intellectual growth, creativity, dynamism and great ideas in government. We have been all of those things in the past 200 years and we have lost it."

Ideas. In government. My hero.