"Alarmed by Eliot Spitzer’s momentum in his unexpected bid to win citywide office, an unlikely coalition of business leaders, women’s groups and labor unions..."

"... is vowing to finance an ambitious effort to thwart the former governor’s ambition," begins this NYT article.

The interest groups, which often spar with one another over competing agendas and priorities, have found rare common cause in their antipathy toward Mr. Spitzer, who infuriated the business community with his aggressive posture toward Wall Street, who offended feminists by paying for sex with prostitutes and who alienated unions by taking on a labor-backed candidate.

Kinda makes you like him, no?

And here's how Tina Brown referred to Spitzer in that "End the Damn Dickmanship!" piece that I've already blogged this morning:

He looks demented. The scimitar mouth pulled back in a mad crow of triumph, the face sweating with guilty pleasure.

That's so mean I'm starting to root for him.