Gov. Mark Sanford admitted today that his secret trip to Argentina over Father's Day weekend was to visit a woman he is having an affair with.This is just...
"I have developed a relationship with what started as a dear dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently as I expect many of these things do, just casual email back and forth," Sanford said. "But here recently this last year developed into something much more."
Asked if Sanford was separated from his wife, he said "I don't know how you want to define that. I"m here and she's there. I guess in a formal sense we are not."
Sanford said his wife has known about the affair and they have been working through it for the past five months. "What I did was wrong, period. End of story," Sanford said.
Clintonesque.
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you say tomay-to (clintonesque), i say tomah-to (ensignesque)
I'll see your Ensign and raise you a Spitzer.
Someone has got to be kidding me. The history of politics if filled with examples of stupid decisions. This has to rank near the top.
Let's face it, adultery alone is not that scandalous for a politician these days (sadly). But to up and abandon your duties as the highest office in your state for an illicit tryst?
We really do live in a mad world.
(sung) Shame shame on himmmmm.
Not "Sanford, aw shit," but "Sanford, Oh well." Or, "Sanford, so long!" Better to discover this character flaw now, and not after he's the next Republican nominee for the Oval Office.
You're right, Arby, but still...
So much promise.
Is there any decent man in office anymore? Dear Lord this is so depressing.
I wish the wives and constituents would start kicking these cads to the curb.
-Jen
And I'll raise you both a Blago :)
Seriously, there HAVE been rumors swirling for years that Blago also engaged in this sort of thing, and that the REAL reason he didn't move to Springfield and live in the governor's mansion was because Patti knew or at least suspected he had a girlfriend there.
If the allegations in the federal indictment against Blago are true (that he planned to enrich himself via bribery, fraud, etc. even before taking office) it's too bad we can't have his oath of office "annulled" on the grounds that he never intended to keep it!
Of course, Blago and Spitzer were forced out of office. Will the same thing happen to Sanford (note: to date, nothing has come out to suggest what Sanford did anywhere approaches the corruption of either Spitzer or particularly Blago. That said, if it comes out that he used public funds to see his mistress, resignation will be assured)?
I don't expect he'll stay governor long.
But in the case of John Edwards, the press sat on his story through most of the early primaries last year. If they hadn't, he'd have lost in Iowa, and Hillary Clinton would probably have been the Democratic nominee for President.
I believe that how the press treats these stories is a relevant topic.
Uh, Edwards did lose in Iowa (Obama won, Edwards 2nd, Hillary 3rd). I don't disagree with the more general point though -- if it Edwards had been gone earlier, Hillary may well have ended up the nominee.
Since you brought up the press, as much as many on the Right complain about unequal treatment, it's interesting that the Columbia paper apparently sat on e-mails since last December.
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