'The Whole Idea of Returning To Albany Is Preposterous'

Never underestimate the stupidity of the New York voters, some might say. Nor should one except a delusional former politician driven from office in scandal to think he can't ever make a comeback.

Yet here you have Eliot Spitzer, living in dreamland, a place where hookers are free and memories are very short, apparently.

BEHIND Eliot Spitzer's flaccid attempt at re-erecting his public persona is a plan to run for state attorney general in 2010, sources told Page Six.

After launching a column on Slate.com, and giving interviews to National Public Radio and the "Today" show, the sources say, the disgraced former governor told friends: "My record as governor was disappointing, but the voters will remember my excellent two terms as attorney general."

He thinks very highly of himself. Believe me, pal, nobody much remembers your stint as AG, but they do remember you getting popped with a $4000 and hour prostitute.

Good grief, just go away.

But Spitzer, whose resignation just 13 months ago led to the gubernatorial ascension of hapless David Paterson, might be underestimating the public's memory. Even before Spitzer went on "Today" to resurrect his image as "the sheriff of Wall Street" and discuss his "gremlins," a New York Times column recently referred to him as "that caustic echo of yesteryear."

Noted one longtime observer, "The whole idea of returning to Albany is preposterous. You can't go home again. He's a pariah. It wasn't just the prostitutes -- there was also Troopergate," the use of state troopers to spy on Republican leader Joe Bruno.

He's never been held accountable for that egregious abuse of power and the notion of him again being attorney general is absurd beyond belief. Just imagine him actually being elected and other shoes dropping. Does he expect people to have any confidence in him? (Don't answer that. Like I said, this is New York we're talking about.)

Meanwhile, Cecil Suwal, who's scheduled to serve six months in jail for helping run the notorious Emperors Club sex ring, is shopping a memoir to publishers.

In "Inside the Emperors Club: Girls, Greed and the Governor," "She will discuss the frequency with which [Spitzer] used the agency, the amounts of money he spent, and some of the details of the various encounters he had with the girls," her rep said.

Hopefully Mrs. Spitzer is reading The Post today and disabuses this idiot of ever running for office again.