Was Spitzer Targeted?

As Richard Nixon used to say, let me make something perfectly clear: Eliot Spitzer is a world-class hypocrite and fool, who more or less asked for the political and personal catastrophe that has befallen him.

That being said, the real Spitzer scandal has little to do with his apparent habit of paying young women for sex. Here's what really needs to be investigated:

Spitzer's fall was triggered not by his visits to prostitutes, but by banks reporting "suspicious" transactions of his to the IRS.