9. Elliot Spitzer

You can’t be a crusading prosecutor fighting for truth, justice, and the American way and then be spending money on hookers, dude! It just doesn’t work like that in 2008. If you’re a political figure of any importance, you will get caught. Period. But aside from that, why do insist on doing things that are, um, unsafe? I mean hey man, they’re hookers! Just by being with them, it’s somewhat unsafe. Why take it to the next level? Is the ‘unsafe’ part something your wife wouldn’t do, so you risked your entire political career for it. You couldn’t wait for birthdays and holidays? Everything about this just reeks of the stupidity of an arrogant man drunk on his own power. Well, drunk and horny.

Mitigating circumstances: It was looking like he wasn’t going to be a very good governor anyway. Also, at least ‘Kristen’ was hot. Let’s be honest, often half the disgrace in many political sex scandals is just how beer-goggles hideous some of the participants have been. Yeah, I’m looking at you, Bill Clinton.