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The beta who would be governor
The short version of how to handle a sex scandal the alpha way:
1) When rumors begin circulating, ignore ignore ignore.
2) When rumors begin to be taken seriously, deny deny deny.
3) When rumors are verified as fact, fess up but don’t admit any guilt.
Or for the long version, DON’T do what Governor David Paterson, the worst accident to happen to New York since 9/11, did yesterday:
An embattled Gov. Paterson yesterday strongly denied rampant rumors of extramarital affairs and drug use as he blasted the media for printing “callous and sleazy” allegations.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Paterson lashed out at the press for “stretching the bounds of journalism” in an effort to confirm reports and gossip about his personal escapades.
The rumors have fueled rampant speculation that the governor is about to resign.
“For the last couple of weeks, I have been the subject of what, even by Albany standards, has been a spate of outrageous rumors about me,” Paterson said.
Scrutiny of Paterson’s personal life began anew in mid-January, when two eyewitnesses told The Post they spied Paterson kissing the neck of a woman during lunch at a New Jersey steakhouse.
The governor has repeatedly denied any midday canoodling and insisted he met the woman — identified as a married family friend, Jennifer Jones — to give her advice on starting an after-school program.
In the AP interview, Paterson specifically attacked a Jan. 30 Page Six report about a state trooper who while patrolling the 39-room Executive Mansion accidentally caught him “snuggling” with an unidentified woman in a utility closet.
Rumors have spanned everything from double dates without his wife to sex-and-drug parties at the Executive Mansion.
According to one unsubstantiated rumor, Paterson was late arriving at the scene of last February’s tragic air crash outside Buffalo because he was supposedly preoccupied with a local lady friend.
No you fool! The public exposure of your spate of sport-fucking is still at the rumor stage! You’re supposed to be IGNORING this!
And if that wasn’t enough, Paterson kept on digging his hole all last evening:
Gov. David Paterson used the occasion of a rather mundane press conference to discuss snowstorm preparedness to once again lash out against recent rumors that grew from reports that the New York Times is completing an article about him.
Paterson, who said he sat down with Times reporters today for an interview, once again insisted that he was still running for governor, and would not resign. “The only way I’m not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box,” he said. “And the only way I’ll be leaving office before is in a box.”
Paterson said that the interview with the Times reporters — for what he described as “a profile piece on me” — included no questions about any of the more scandalous pieces of gossip floated in recent days.
Paterson said he had never seen “a situation such as Sunday night, when three separate sources contact media outlets simultaneously right at the beginning of the Super Bowl to say the governor was resigning.”
“It seems to be somewhat orchestrated,” said the governor, who refused to speculate on who might be behind the barrage of “false allegations, unsubstantiated rumors and in some cases straight-out lies.”
You’re getting your tighty-whities in a twist over a story that the NYT hasn’t even PUBLISHED yet? You eediot!
Paterson’s beta-paranoiac reaction to these allegations should serve as a reminder that while fame may trump game in terms of making panties moist, it doesn’t alter a man’s core character if he doesn’t already have what it takes. A beta who ascends to the throne is still a beta. We saw it with Tiger Woods, a guy who despite having the notoriety to assemble his own gaggle of sperm-hungry sluts, still couldn’t resist behaving like a little bitch around them. Governor Magoo may be making Caligula blush with his executive escapades, but beneath that gina-tingling gubernatorial mask lies the timid and weak soul of a non-alpha male. Dude needs game – badly!
Personally, I don’t blame the guy for taking full advantage of his position to screw as many broads as he can lay his legally blind eyes on. (Well, aside from the marital infidelity part, but in the Age of Flesh, no wife of a powerful man has the right to expect him to remain faithful.) If I ever get elected to any political office, you moralistic motherfuckers better watch out – I’ll be banging a different teenage girl every day of the week. And when questioned by the press I’ll say, “Yes, I did have sexual relations with that woman. And I’d do it again. So what are you going to do about it, champ?” The fact that my reactionary politics make me unelectable for any position beyond Saratoga Springs City Clerk is your only salvation.
As for Paterson, he’s cooked like a poodle in a microwave. Some of my cougar co-workers were badmouthing him in the office yesterday. For those of you who don’t know, childless old hags are generally liberal; childless old hags who work for the government are just barely to the right of Marx. If you’re a Democrat and you’ve lost the cougar vote, you might as well put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. You have officially failed at life. If Paterson says he’s only leaving office “in a box,” I say we toss him in one and float him down the Hudson Moses-style…to NEW JERSEY!
The one nice thing I have to say about my governor? He’s not as beta as his whore-soliciting predecessor. Paying for sex when you’re rich and powerful is something only the Master can get away with.
I know it’s bad form to mock the afflicted, but the guy looks beta through and through. Beta-ness is written on a guy’s face long before he’s opened his mouth.
Spitzer was a strange case. I think he was taken down by Wall Street because he was the only regulator making a proper go at regulating. Can’t remember the specifics but I think the escort story broke just as he was gearing up to sub-peona the monoline insurers and he was also going after AIG.
Very, very suspicious. Especially the timing.
What a tool. He skated into the office through luck. He won’t be reelected. Why not openly shag every female he lurches into? He might leverage that into a book or something.
acknowledging rumors without prompting is akin to validating them in the eyes of many. pretend, act as though they DO NOT FUCKING EXIST. look at that picture…he’ll be eviscerated b/c he doesn’t look like JOhn Edwards. that guy was dumb enough to take part in a sex tape….while his wife had BREAST CANCER….and he still wont’ be ridiculed as harshly. standards- what?
Krauser:
I agree that Spitzer was probably set up, and he was a better governor than Paterson (by far), but the guy dug his own grave.
First, by paying for a hooker both when he was known for busting prostitution rings as Attorney General and there were no shortage of women willing to be fucked by him for free.
Second, for getting on state television and behaving like a mewling cur over the whole deal.
Some fodder for you..
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http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-would-men-do-if-they-didnt-have-to-impre
This paper examines the extent to which human capital and career decisions are affected by their potential returns in the marriage market. Although schooling and career decisions often are made before getting married, these decisions are likely to affect the future chances of receiving a marriage offer, the type of offer, and the probability of getting divorced. Therefore, I estimate a forward‐looking model of the marriage and career decisions of young men between the ages of 16 and 39. The results show that if there were no returns to career choices in the marriage market, men would tend to work less, study less, and choose blue‐collar jobs over white‐collar jobs. These findings suggest that the existing literature underestimates the true returns to human capital investments by ignoring their returns in the marriage market.
D-Pat can get away with ANYTHING and whatnot – know what I’m saying?
He’s a twofer.
The kind of public employee State Government HR Departments cum in their pants over.
Being a twofer counts plenty when you are appointed by career chasing bureaucrats beholden to diversity targets. It means alot less when you have to be elected by the general public.
If all of the diversity outreach coordinators and various other grievance-mongers were actually subject to a vote, political correctness would evaporate in a heartbeat. It’s precisely because they are never accountable that they get to trough.
I’m waiting for the SNL skit where Gov. Paterson claims he thought he was having sex with his wife, but couldn’t tell because he was blind.
Elliot Spitzer was a loser to be paying SO much ($5000 or more) for sex with women who are 7s and 7.5s.
His wife is still decent-looking at 50+. For someone so immersed in the world of Wall Street, his ability to do a risk/reward analysis leaves much to be desired.
As despicable as John Edwards was, he handled it with more Alpha e-lan than others.
Ferdinand,
you Lousy, miserable, obnoxious SOB.
WHAT THE HELL DID JERSEY EVER DO TO YOU?!
Isn’t the state I live in bad enough without this sort of trash being sent our way?
(Just kidding, but someone had to say it…)
-Jean. ;-)
I wonder – does the MRA movement need a sort of leader or top dog to get things done? We all seem to be talking in circles or stuck in the trap of being hamsters endlessly running on the wheel – all that effort but we really haven’t gotten anywhere. My minor encounter with Lady Raine inspired me to muse more on the subject; I think it’s worth considering.
two eyewitnesses told The Post they spied Paterson kissing the neck of a woman during lunch at a New Jersey steakhouse.
He shoulda gone with the blind man’s defense – “I thought she was my wife.” =)
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I wonder – does the MRA movement need a sort of leader or top dog to get things done?
J. Durden,
Whenever I bring up this lack of MRA visibility. Angry Harry and others shoot me down. He says “Just because you cannot detect the actions of MRAs, does not mean there are none.” He almost seems proud that even sympathetic people can’t detect their ‘efforts’.
Read what I wrote about ‘Why there is no Men’s Rights Movement’, in The Misandry Bubble.
Also, the US MRM should focus only on TWO goals at first. Just these two :
a) Repeal VAWA
b) Repeal the Bradley Amendment.
Other goals can come later, but just focus on repealing these two at first. They violate the 13th and 14th amendments of the US Constitution, and it should be relatively straightforward to get the SCOTUS to review them. Even if Scalia/Thomas/Alito are too whiteknighty to strike down these laws, visibility will come to the issue, feminists will shriek in a way that informs more men, etc.
But there is no Men’s RIghts Movement. There is a proto-movement. But it is not yet a movement.
Men who have the capacity to get things done quickly learn Game, and live too good of a life to make an MRA effort. We are still sympathetic to their cause, of course, but we don’t see that they have anywhere near the energy or creativity needed to make a dent.
When it comes to the rich and powerful fucking prostitutes, Donald Trump said it best. You don’t pay for the sex, that comes easy. You pay her to leave afterwards (paraphrased).
When Paterson first ascended to the governorship — while the media was still obsessing over Spitzer’s Sophoclean downfall — Paterson preemptively admitted to doing drugs and engaging in extramarital affairs. That was a brilliant bit of inoculation on his part, actually: confess to your sins when someone an order of magnitude more famous than you is the center of the media spotlight. Of course, that was an inoculation against past misdeeds, not future ones.
As for Spitzer hiring a pro, perhaps his intent in paying for sex was similar to Charlie Sheen’s, i.e., paying for discretion (not that plan worked out in either man’s case)?
TFM,
As I’ve said elsewhere, I respect you highly. Understand I’m not necessarily saying that your view is “wrong,” but I am saying that it may be unnecessarily limited.
Just because something is unlikely does not mean it is, strictly speaking, impossible. Inevitability is a useful concept to help people understand complicated phenomenon and accept extremely high probabilities, but it, like most other human concepts, doesn’t exist in nature. As we advance our knowledge of the world, our hard and fast conceptions – long thought to be impervious to cracking – are showing their age. Just take a look at what quantum mechanics tells us – observing experiments fundamentally alters the outcome. What kind of “laws of nature” can we truly believe in as a result of this finding?
That being said, we cannot say “MRAs succeeding is an impossibility” merely because we perceive the odds of its success to asymptotically approach zero. Have we proven the odds of success asymptotically approach zero, for instance? And by what metrics and what standards of evidence? Are there any biases present in those metrics and systems of evaluation? As we are now finding out, systems of idolatry centered around the infalliable powers of mathematics are capable of spectacular catastrophe and spectacular success in relatively equal amounts (if not necessarily probabilities).
Believe what you want, but I would caution you – and everyone else – to not adopt a system of belief centered on too many absolutes. Adaptability has always been recognized as a key to survival – why not be adaptable in our thinking and believing, as well?
Hey FB,
What do you think of this post? It is about the myth that womens choice for sociopaths is genetically selected for.
http://dissention.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/problems-with-evolutionary-psychology-02/
Even if Scalia/Thomas/Alito are too whiteknighty to strike down these laws…
Ummm, ever heard of United States vs. Morrison? Even the Washington Post agreed with the decision: http://bit.ly/dClXkM
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Hey FB,
What do you think? You might not like all aspects of this post, but the underlying premise is hard to disagree on. I am saying that parents in the west screw up their kids lives by trying to implement ideas that are fashionable rather than rational (and in their best interest).
http://dissention.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/useful-idiots-02/
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