She’s been scheming since high school to dominate the halls of power.
Spitzer gal pal Lis Smith took her inspiration from Lady Macbeth, Machiavelli and Nietzsche while at tony Bronxville HS — quoting the trio on her 2001 senior yearbook page.
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t,’’ she wrote, citing Lady Macbeth.
A bright, ambitious political junkie from early on, Smith is now known as a pit bull among her foes — and just as aggressive when it comes to dating powerful men.
Her love interest before Spitzer was a top President Obama aide whom she dated while they worked on the president’s 2012 re-election campaign, sources said.
First, she stole the man away from his girlfriend — then turned vicious when he dumped her to go back to the other woman, an Obama insider told The Post.
Smith, 31, took a screen shot of a string of raunchy text messages her former lover sent her, the source said — then sent it in an e-mail blast to more than 100 Obama staffers, including top campaign aides David Axelrod and David Plouffe.
Another political insider said that, as with Spitzer, it was just like Smith to get tangled up with someone in power where she worked.
Smith was Spitzer’s communications director for his failed bid for city comptroller when the pair began a relationship, sources have said.
“She definitely dates men in positions of power and politics,’’ the source said. “She’s not a girl’s girl. She doesn’t have any girlfriends.”
While she studied at Dartmouth, Smith’s boyfriend was another politician: former Missouri state Sen. Jeff Smith.
The pair had a four-year romance starting in 2005, when he was a visiting political-science professor at the school and she was a student.
After Jeff Smith was convicted of trying to cover up an election-law violation, in 2009, Lis wrote a glowing letter of support to his sentencing judge.
“Every minute he didn’t spend with me, he spent working to make the City of St. Louis a better place,” she gushed.
Her lawyer mom, Adrienne Smith, who had backed Spitzer on Twitter after he was axed from a talk-show hosting job with CNN, stood up for the senator, too.
“As my daughter is statuesque and beautiful, I expected that anyone in whom she had a romantic interest would be similarly endowed,’’ the mother wrote.
She added that despite meeting Jeff and finding him short and scrawny, he was “a completely delightful person.’’
