  McGreevey, after spending about 5 minutes talking in New Age generalities finally said he's resigning because he's gay and was having an affair. Doh! Guess wife number two is feeling pretty bad. I can just imagine that conversation. "Why couldn't you have a normal mid-life crisis and sleep with a 20 year blonde and buy a sports car? " He said he'd resign on 15Nov04, allowing the President of the Senate to serve until 2006, rather than have a special election in 2005.
The worst part about his speech was that it took him 5 minutes to say "I like it in the rear and so, I'm outta here. " On and on about looking into his soul and finding his true path and always feeling he was apart and blah, blah, blah. Just get over yourself. Now we're going to be subjected to weeks on end of bleatings about how unfair it is for him to have had to have "lived a lie" all these years and how harsh society is, etc.
I can understand why he would want to take control of the situation and get everything out in the open and I can see why the whole affair thing would make him want to leave office (and how many out there think the fact that he decided to screw around on his wife will be slowly dropped to focus on how sad it is that his gayness made him resign). I just thought it was fairly pathetic for him to turn this into a heroic struggle for his identity. There is nothing noble about cheating on your wife and screwing up your family. 
