South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentina Affair Admission Saps the Snark
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Whoah. That was not something you see every day in politics. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, after days of literal and figurative evasion, apparently laid himself emotionally bare. His voice breaking at times, Sanford admitted that not only had he lied about his whereabouts but that he had been unfaithful to his wife. And he spoke with (what we presume to be) a kind of emotional honesty one does not hear among politicians. "I have been unfaithful to my wife. I developed a relationship with what started out as a dear, dear friend from Argentina," he said.
Good for him for candor. He managed to sap a political circus of its snarky glee—and that's not easy to do. "This is genuinely painful, sad," TPM's Josh Marshall blogged under the headline "Sanford Trainwreck Presser Liveblogging."
He resigns as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association and pledges an apology tour of South Carolina. I think we can safely assume that he'll be too busy trying to rebuild his personal and political relationships at home to worry about 2012, even if his initial flakiness and moral lapses would not have disqualified him. "The guy could have been president. Now he's finished. Witness the power of the male libido," HotAir's Allahpundit Tweets.
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Public figures have been conducting themselves in this manner since time began!!!! The reason we hear about it all the time is because our society is now global with Internet and social media etc. available to us. It was the custom in the 1800's for successful men to have a mistress while married and wives knew about it and accepted it and paid no attention.
I don't approve and it's not something I would do. Use what your kids see on TV as a teaching tool - or screen what your kids are watching very carefully. What about John F. Kennedy and the rest of that clan - what about President Johnson, and the list goes on and on. We didn't see it or hear about it because our society was structured differently then.
Can you imagine how many people are actually cheating if this is what we are seeing and hearing? The numbers are staggering. Teach your children well.
Democrats Moral Family Values?? Really there is none
I like how people through things about family values at the Republican's... when Democrats are worst...
Actually... both parties have no family values!
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