Eliot Spitzer, who once had to addresses his own marital indiscretions back in March 2008, shown here with wife Silda Wall (left), joined in the criticism of Anthony Weiner through his campaign.  Even a man who repeatedly cheated on his wife with high-priced hookers thinks Anthony Weiner is a bad husband.  As he campaigns for city controller, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been shaking hands at subway stops and visiting churches without his wife, Silda Wall, anywhere in sight. But Spitzer and his team claim her absence is only because the former Love Gov is interested in protecting her.  “Regarding (Silda’s) appearances on the campaign trail, no husband would ask his wife and family to step into the media frenzy surrounding the campaign at this time,” Spitzer spokeswoman Lisa Linden said.  That’s a clear shot at sext-happy Weiner, who on Tuesday balanced his teetering mayoral campaign directly on the shoulders of his wife, Huma Abedin. Abedin threw Weiner a lifeline Tuesday when she stepped forward at a news conference to tell the city’s voters that she has forgiven her scandal-scarred husband and therefore they could, too.  Weiner’s candidacy is his first since he resigned from Congress in June 2011 for sending sexually explicit photos and messages and then lying about it.  Spitzer’s campaign marks his return to politics after he was forced to resign as governor in 2008 for using prostitutes.  RELATED: TWO FORMER NY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMEN TAKE AIM AT SPITZER, WEINER  Both parallels only go so far.  Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, has been a central figure in Weiner’s campaign, attending parades with him, using her Clinton connections to raise money for him and standing loyally by his side as he struggles to explain how and why he resumed sexting with women after the creepy habit forced him to resign from Congress in 2011.  But Wall and Spitzer have not been seen together since he stunned the city’s political world two weeks ago by announcing his candidacy for controller.  Spitzer’s attack on Weiner appeared to be an attempt to deflect questions about his own marriage, questions fueled by his solo campaign act.  Wall, 55, famously — and tearfully — stood by her husband’s side when he stepped down as governor. She was firmly in the camp that argued he should not resign.  But the couple has been apart recently.  RELATED: SPITZER DODGES NEW HARD QUESTIONS AFTER WEINER SCANDAL  While Wall has been staying in the couple’s home, Spitzer beds down each night nearly 20 blocks away, in an apartment in the building where his ailing father, Bernard, resides. The arrangement has generated much speculation about the future of the ex-governor and the state’s former First Lady as a couple.  Linden said, “Silda and Eliot are married. Silda is absolutely supportive of Eliot’s campaign.”  The spokesman would not answer “yes” or “no” to the question of whether Spitzer’s wife was planning to file for divorce.  “We will not comment further on absurd speculation about their marriage,” she said.  Spitzer wasn’t the only politician dumping on Weiner on Friday.  The Democratic front-runner for mayor, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, repeatedly seized on Weiner’s scandal in an attempt to score political points.  RELATED: WEINER'S SCANDAL MAY HURT SPITZER  In a pair of national cable television appearances, she ripped into her rival with identical talking points, trashing him for what she called his “pattern of recklessness.”  “All we’ve seen from former congressman Weiner is a pattern of reckless behavior, a lack of responsibility and maturity, difficulty with the truth, and he’s brought really a circus to what should be a discussion about the future of middle-class New Yorkers,” Quinn said in the morning on MSNBC.  In the afternoon, on the CNN show “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Quinn called Weiner “reckless, immature and irresponsible.”  “No one should have behaved this way; no one should have lied about how they behaved this way,” she said.  “His gender isn’t the issue for me. The issue is that he clearly has a disconnect from an ability to tell the truth and a pattern of reckless behavior.”  On Sunday, Quinn will get an opportunity to make the same points on an even bigger platform: she’ll be a guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
As the former Love Gov campaigns for New York city controller without his wife Silda Wall anywhere in sight, his campaign takes a swipe at mayoral hopeful.