Governor Sanford Has Affair with Argentinian Woman
This is a personal matter that doesn’t affect his work performance...
...aw, *spit*, I can’t even type that with a straight face. Although I agree with much of this guy’s politics, he’s a piece of garbage and needs to enter private life.
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.
“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.
Is there something in the water conservatives are drinking? First, John Ensign then Jessica McBride and now him. What the Hell? God, this has been a depressing few weeks.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 1733 hrs
The big difference here is that he lied about his whereabouts and was unable to be reached for almost a week.
This is fine if you are John Q. Public - but this guy is the governor of a US State! If some CEO of a large corporation did this - he’d be canned by the board!
Very poor judgement.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 1737 hrs
No Joseph, they are unfortunately reading from the same page as the Democrats - Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank’s gay prostitution ring, yada yada. The main difference, Republicans are usually held to a higher standard and most have their careers ended.
WTF?
Can anyone please explain to me why *$#&@$! politicians can’t keep it in their pants?
Is it pathological that the only men that go into political office can’t be monogomous?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 1745 hrs
JJ, when it comes to infidelity and perversion, Republicans should be held to a higher standard, since they’re the party that’s been trying to tell us how to live our personal lives and making the absurd argument that homos are a threat to the marriages they can’t maintain.
I’m seriously wondering if there’s any issue on which the GOP has any credibility anymore? I can’t think of one.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 1801 hrs
What an idiot.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 1846 hrs
Republicans should be held to a higher standard, since they’re the party that’s been trying to tell us how to live our personal lives
Kind of like when eco-nutty Democrats tell us how live our lives, then take their SUVs out to the airport to board their private jet for a trip back home to their 48,000 square foot mansion.
La la laa la laa la laaa la la la laa laaaaa….
:zpopcorn:
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 1933 hrs
One more South American woman doing a job Americans won’t do.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 2122 hrs
Tres brilliant grumps.
As sure as the sun shines in the morning, someone will show up here and whine about how the GOP is treated so unfairly. Last we looked, Ensign, Stanford, Vitter and Craig are still holding office.
Might be a good idea for you guys to drop the family values thing. You’re not very good at it.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 2135 hrs
Need I list the liberals who have had affairs? I’d start with the Kennedys, but I fear I’d hit the word limit for comments.
Posted by Owen on June 24, 2009 at 2139 hrs
Careful with those stones, folks…this glass house is very delicate.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 2143 hrs
Mr. Pelican Pants said,
“Yeah but the Democrats are hypocrites too, which on some strange planet refutes your argument”.
Yes, Pelican Pants, liberal politicians like Al Gore are indeed hypocrites in their own right, on different issues. That’s why I’m not a liberal and not a democrat. Your response, other than using deflection to make a pathetic partisan point, makes no sense whatsoever.
Owen said,
“I completely missed your point. You said that when it comes to the issue of infidelity, the GOP has little credibility because so many of its members are perverts. So I’m going to point out that members of the other party, which in general does not preach on the issue of sexual morality, has perverts too.”
Um, ok. Whatever.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 2219 hrs
Tosa Voter said,
Republicans should be held to a higher standard; Democrats, on the other hand, have no standards.
Your response…makes no sense whatsoever.
Right back at cha’, brother…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 24, 2009 at 2231 hrs
If it weren’t for guys like Sanford and Ensign and Vitter lecturing everyone on family values and trying to drape themselves in their families as somehow having a wife and kids is a qualification for public office, the general public would find these matters much less interesting. What’s compelling here isn’t the affair, per se, but the irony.
Well, that and the spectacularly bad way in which Sanford handled the matter. It’s almost like Sanford took advice from his fellow Carolinian, John Edwards, on how to mishandle a disclosure like this.
Posted by Recess Supervisor on June 25, 2009 at 0005 hrs
Great one, grumps- used it on my blog http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2009/06/best-quote-about-sanford-affair.html
What Sanford did was very, very wrong, especially with 4 young children and it sounds like a loving wife. On later newscasts, it said that he went to argentina to break up. Not sure what to believe, other than he Sanford is a pig.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 0336 hrs
The admissions by Mark Stanford effectively killed:
1) His chances to run for president.
2) “Family values” as a GOP strategy to distract voters from their otherwise distasteful economic policies and support for an oligarchical America
3) Continual GOP evocations of Bill Clinton
It would be nice to move on to bigger issues, such as SC’s 12% unemployment and educational ranking as 39th in the country.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 0629 hrs
It would be nice to move on to bigger issues, such as SC’s 12% unemployment and educational ranking as 39th in the country.
Hell we can’t even talk about Jim Doyle’s mishandling of Wisconsin on this blog without you taking up arms against us… and as far as I know, Doyle hasn’t been off the grid laying his Chorizo in some LATAM broad. Your hypocrisy is off the charts today.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 0842 hrs
Hypocracy aside, what I don’t get is that when con does something the whole party feels the pain. “Republicans should be held to a higher standard, since they’re the party that’s been trying to tell us how to live our personal lives and making the absurd argument that homos are a threat to the marriages they can’t maintain.
I’m seriously wondering if there’s any issue on which the GOP has any credibility anymore? I can’t think of one.”
When a lib does something like, oh, I don’t know…kills someone aka Kennedy, it is either forgotten, swept under the rug, or painted as just one guy and that really did nothing wrong because he is a champion for gays, does not support the drug war, made a tax error, had a lapse of judgement…and so on.
Just because cons fight for something and a few (very few) screw up does not mean that the rest of us can be painted with the same brush and the arguements and tenets of the party are moot.
Posted by fishaddict on June 25, 2009 at 0859 hrs
Sometimes I can’t decide which group is more pathetic, party Dems or party Republicans.
On this topic. however, my sympathies consistently fall to the Republicans. I am a moral man. I not only believe in traditional morals, I regularly practice them. There are pretty much just as many failures in each party when it comes to infidelity and perversion, at least in the number that get caught. If there is a choice between a moral man who fails and a man who never claims to have morals in the first place, I will take the failure every time.
Do you get that at all keith?
Might be a good idea for you guys to drop the family values thing. You’re not very good at it.
Admittedly, I am not ‘you guys’ because I am not Republican I am conservative, but a claim to practice what you preach when Dems preach teaching 5th and 6th graders how to have sex…‘safely’ will never give you the moral high ground. A Democrat having sex outside his marriage is not ‘less reprehensible’ because his party wants everyone to have sex with anyone. He was still married. He is not more virtuous because he believes marriage is a shallow facade of convenience. He is just a little bit less hypocritical.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 1019 hrs
All that matters is that in the end, Governor Mark Sanford is a patriot.
You can cut it any way you want, liberals, but I’d rather have Sanford standing up for my rights than the Ted Kennedys or Barney Franks you have to offer any day of the week.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 25, 2009 at 1823 hrs
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