This is the fallout from the Spitzer stuff.

Los Angeles Times today, columnist Patty Kelly: “Legalize Prostitution.” Yeah, now, wait. That’s just the headline.

— This is near the end of the piece…

“Saying that all sex workers are victims and all clients are demons is the easy way out. Perhaps it’s time to face this fact like adults (or at least like Mexico) — with a little less moralizing and a good deal more honesty. As for Spitzer, if he had walked into the Galactic Zone,” which is a whorehouse down in Mexico, “my questions would have been these: Was he respectful? Was he safe? Did he pay well? If the answer to all three was yes, then, well, I voted for him once, and I’d vote for him again.”

I tell you what, Perot was right. He was just years ahead of it, folks. The giant sucking sound you hear is Mexico. “Yes. If he paid well, if he was nice and respectful, I’d vote for him again.” Now, Patty Kelly, an anthropology professor at George Washington University, is the author of Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel, a book due out in April.

Legalize prostitution. You just knew it was going to happen.