Posted on 06/30/2009 5:42:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
Integrity: In a society that so often feeds on others' adversity, Jenny Sanford has reminded us that hard times bring out the best in good people. No politician's wife has ever shown more grace.
The details are the sort of thing that keep a gawking public coming back for more — steamy e-mails, a cover story that he was hiking incommunicado on the Appalachian Trail, the choice of Father's Day for adultery.
Unlike so many other jilted political wives of recent times, Jenny Sanford was not convinced by her ambitious husband or his aides to take part in the charade of standing with him disingenuously at some circuslike press conference. The cameras would not get their image of offender and victim, side by side.
Instead, the visual the media would be forced to accept was video of the first lady taking some well-deserved vacation time with family. This wife, so dedicated to her husband's aspirations that she actually managed his campaigns, told reporters that the governor's career was "the least of my concerns."
The former Wall Street executive was even able to present a cheerful face to the swarm of reporters at the side of the car she was driving, as she headed off for some R&R.
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I'm wondering if he's having a nervous breakdown! It could be that his soulmate has told him to get lost. LOL!
To celebrate Independence Day, he would be getting papers from my lawyer notifying him that he was getting his!
Uh, yes we do. He was perfectly open about it in his emails to her. Two seconds on Google will reveal whether the governor of a US state is married or not, and it would be highly, highly unusual if one was not. So, yes, she knew. Their relationship would have been quite simple if he were not.
At any rate...I don’t believe in calling her that name.
I do. I was flattering her, actually. A woman who has a prolonged affair with a married man, particularly a married man who has children (whom he also mentioned to her in his emails) is worse than a simple whore. She is helping to destroy lives. If I could think of a worse word, I would use it, but our language lacks that capacity.
Sanford is a grown man with a wife and sons. If he wasn’t happy then get a divorce. Oh no...that would look bad. So instead he cheats and humilitates his wife in front of the world. Thank God she didn’t go stand out there like some meek little wronged woman. Good for her. He was sorry cause he got caught.
There we are in agreement.
Amen. The news is coming out that the Argentinian woman is not the only one that he cheated with, but the others were casual. I think that this is the last straw for a woman who has been dealing with difficult situations for a long time. I don’t think she will really be taking him back. IMHO, she is attempting to do everything from a place of forgiveness and integrity as her faith teaches her, while retaining the dignity a child of God deserves. From what I have seen, despite her past attempts at reconciliation, he is trying to make it impossible to reconcile. There is a time to shake the dust from your feet and move on. Sanford has treated her like trash and there is a time to put an end to it. She needs to get closure and know that she has done all that is humanly possible. God bless her.
I do not judge him - that is God’s job. I can understand how love can hit you between the eyes when you weren’t looking for it. Perhaps he WAS out looking and got more than what he bargained for! Whatever, he has handled it all badly in any case. He has been humiliated in front of the world and has damaged his family, probably beyond repair. One of these days he is going to wake up from his sexual daze and wonder what happened.
I feel sorry for the kids.
BW, I agree with your post.
As a man, I found this sentence very interesting.
"Love" or what you think is love can hit you, but what you DECIDE to do with that, makes all the difference.
You can choose to go with the emotion, even inventing some half baked reason why you should pursue this change of events.
Or you can remember the vows you took to your wife,and the damage that could be done to innocent people, including your own children, put things in perspective and move on from the temptation.
To me, I have no sympathy for Mr. Sandford.He has four sons, and he has given them a failed role model of a man to look up to. Because these boys will be men someday, their father's example will weigh heavily upon them. The lack of strength they could draw upon from a strong role model as a dad and father, may yet visit upon them and their future families untold heartache.
I have had to walk away from temptation a long time ago when it visited me uninvited, and it scared me how easily I could rationalize making the wrong decision. Thank God I did not.
Good point.
It seems he can't stop talking about "her" and it makes me question if he has any friends he can talk to. I think I remember reading that he is somewhat a loner and considering his recent actions, my guess would be his friends are few and far between.
Just hoping she doesn't pull a Lady Blago and turn up on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"
She oughta strip that sleazeball of everything but his boxer shorts and see how long he can live on love! The nerve of that guy saying he was going to try to fall back in love with his wife. Don’t bother, pal. You’re not worth having.
Wouldn’t that be poetic justice...
And to see those who would oppose her for that job would be interesting to ferret out...
Though it wouldn’t be hard to do that...
Note to self...
Never make you mad...;-)
She can and should forgive him.
She can and should move on without him.
She can and will raise her boys properly.
They will be fine with her guidance.
She should not trash mouth their dad.
She should be respectful and as I said...let dad deal with telling the boys what he did. It’s not the place of the mom to do that. the dad did the crime...let him do the time so to speak and have to look his boys in the eyes and tell them what he did was wrong and that it hurt their mother and them. That is HIS punishment.
She will be fine. She is youthful and from what I read a great personality. She has a right to her life and she will move on and be successful. She has right on her side and he will end up with nothing. Have seen it happen over and over. Justice will prevail. Just not up to us to delve it out...but it WILL be delved out one way or another and when he realizes what he had and lost...well, that will be another punishment he will have to live with. Pity him.
In agreement all the way. Just don’t like the choice of word even if it fits. But... I wish the wife a long and happy life raising her sons and one day she will meet a good, honest man with character who will treat her the way she deserves. It happens and it WILL happen to her as well. When the dew is worn off the rose so to speak...sanford will wake up one morning and go “What the hell????” It will be too late for him by then but...he will then know how it feels to have walked in the shoes of his wife. “What goes around comes around.” “The worm turns”...etc. :)
Ha, ha, people make me mad all the time... and it’s no big deal. But, I don’t suffer dishonesty and betrayal lightly. To me, that is a relationship killer.
I don’t understand people shrugging off these politicians’ affairs. If a person will violate the vows they took when they were married, lie and betray the person to whom they swore their fidelity, then that person will lie about anything and betray anyone. It’s a matter of character and trust.
You are a tribute!!!
Absolutely dead on correct...
Not that I was really afraid of making you mad...I get that enough from “Wife-Unit”...;-)
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