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Sanford: Not An Affair, A "Love Story"
See-BS News ^ | 7/1/30 | Ken Millstone

Posted on 07/01/2009 6:00:58 AM PDT by meandog

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has been unusually candid about his affair with a 41-year-old former reporter in Argentina.

In stark contrast to the taciturn Eliot Spitzer – who made no mention at all of his escapades as "Client 9" except opening his resignation speech with a reference to his "private failings" – Sanford held forth at length with reporters last week, describing how the affair came about and at one point prefacing an answer with, "To give you way more detail than you'll ever want…"

Then there were the e-mails. Perhaps Sanford shouldn't be judged on those, given that they were private communications. Serious questions remain about how South Carolina's State newspaper came to posses and publish them.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoints; itsjustsex; moveon; pravdamedia; sanford
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Puuuuuuke!
1 posted on 07/01/2009 6:00:58 AM PDT by meandog
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To: meandog

Puke it is. Falling in “love” sounds a hell of a lot better than paying a hooker.


2 posted on 07/01/2009 6:02:40 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: meandog

This guy is an idiot.
Shut your mouth dude.


3 posted on 07/01/2009 6:03:12 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: meandog

Sanford, the GOP’s Governor Moonbeam


4 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:00 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: meandog

So was “Ben”.


5 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:07 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: meandog

I thought this had to be from The Onion....but sadly, no.


6 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:14 AM PDT by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: meandog

Jesus H. Tapdancin Christ, Sanford. Do the right thing and just resign already.


7 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:16 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: meandog

someone put some love potion number 9 in this mans coffee.

he needs to STFU already.


8 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:41 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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To: LottieDah

His mid-life crisis tail should havd been attached to a Corvette!


9 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:45 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: meandog
STHU..Jack@$$
10 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:57 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: meandog

The arrows of Eros have stuck deep. And Aphrodite is laughing.

So is the world.


11 posted on 07/01/2009 6:05:44 AM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: netmilsmom

Goodbye, marriage! I’m sure Mrs. Sanford is thrilled to hear he has a soulmate, and it’s just not her.

“He’s Just Not That Into You”

.


12 posted on 07/01/2009 6:06:50 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: meandog
Sanford was separated from his wife at the time. How do you feel about the liberal perverts who tried to sell and rape a 5 year old black child?
13 posted on 07/01/2009 6:07:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Duke University official offers to SELL a black five year old for rape parties & the MSM looks away?)
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To: meandog

ooops, wrong "Sanford"... nevermind.

14 posted on 07/01/2009 6:07:09 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: All

I think he views the public in the role similar to a Catholic priest in confession and he feels if he does not give every single detail, he will not be forgiven.


15 posted on 07/01/2009 6:07:12 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (The Taxman-Malarky Bill Is War On America!)
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To: OCCASparky

No need to blaspheme.


16 posted on 07/01/2009 6:07:32 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Dr. Ursus

True....he should have bought a sports car, grown a moustache and started getting a fake tan. Instead he hurt his wife and kids, screwed another woman and screwed the people of his state.


17 posted on 07/01/2009 6:07:55 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: meandog

18 posted on 07/01/2009 6:08:08 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: meandog
Gov Sanford: "You know what...

.... I just don't think this is deep enough yet."

19 posted on 07/01/2009 6:08:16 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: meandog

I will second that.

Sanford needs to shut up, his wife needs to divorce him, he needs to resign as Governor, and then he can do whatever he wants.

To think peoiple were touting him for President. Republicans dodged a bullet on that one.


20 posted on 07/01/2009 6:08:17 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin for OK Governor/Coburn for Senate 2010 ! Mark Rubio for FL Senate 2010!)
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To: meandog
unusually candid

Way more than necessary. Sanford, stop talking about it or just get your own reality TV show.

21 posted on 07/01/2009 6:09:24 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: netmilsmom
This guy is an idiot.

I'm starting to wonder if he has a brain tumor.

22 posted on 07/01/2009 6:10:33 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Covenantor
-- Sanford, the GOP's Governor Moonbeam --

LOL. Pretty much so.

I thought he was doing okay with the fed bailout issue, until I looked at the details and found out he's as big a phony on politics as he is a failure at separating his public works from his private issues.

23 posted on 07/01/2009 6:11:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: MrB

Well Governor Sanford sure is a “Big Dummy.”


24 posted on 07/01/2009 6:11:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: meandog

Governor, if this was a love story, then why did you have to say you were sorry?


25 posted on 07/01/2009 6:13:27 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: meandog

Time for this sleaze to resign and (someone should) appoint his wife as Governor! Go, Jenny!


26 posted on 07/01/2009 6:13:39 AM PDT by Jane Long (I see Term Limits in their futures.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“His mid-life crisis tail should havd been attached to a Corvette!”

A bright red Corvette, or as I would say, a bright red peni* extender...


27 posted on 07/01/2009 6:14:19 AM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
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To: meandog
"Did I want to pay the price? Did I want the consequences? No. But – I said this to her down there – I said, 'I am fully aware of the price. I'm fully aware of the costs. And I'm, I'm, I'm willing to do that.'”

His four sons will read this one day. His wife's divorce attorney will read it sooner.

28 posted on 07/01/2009 6:14:53 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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To: meandog

What a freaking jerk that guy is!!!! What about his boys? No woman is worth destroying your children’s lives over. What kind of man is he? Anyway, any woman who would destroy a family is a liar, and if he believes a word she ever said to him, then he is REALLY stupid. How horrible for his boys that he would talk like that!


29 posted on 07/01/2009 6:14:59 AM PDT by rodeo-mamma
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To: NativeNewYorker

Isn’t that AlGore and Tipper in the picture????


30 posted on 07/01/2009 6:15:16 AM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
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To: meandog

Mr. Sanford,

Please. Stop. Talking.


31 posted on 07/01/2009 6:15:39 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: GOPJ

separated from his wife? That’s a strange way of describing 5 taxpayer-funded quickies to South America!

But now we hear there were “other women” plural...

As the late Billy Mays would say... “WAIT! There’s More!”

LOL! The good people of SC have become a laughing stock as this man publicly suffers a midlife criss that is looking like an emotional breakdown. If he isn’t stable enough to quit they ought to impeach him for bringing shame to the governor’s office and ruling SC according to his johnson..

The neighbors’ license plates used to say “Virginia is for Lovers”... maybe new license plates saying “South Carolina is for soulmates”


32 posted on 07/01/2009 6:16:20 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: St. Louis Conservative

He can talk all he wants after he resigns.

Of course by then, nobody will be listening.


33 posted on 07/01/2009 6:16:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GOPJ

...liberal perverts who tried to sell and rape a 5 year old black child?


None of the big news outfits are touching that one.

It doesn’t fit their perverted news stereotype.


34 posted on 07/01/2009 6:16:34 AM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: meandog

oh my gosh GO AWAY


35 posted on 07/01/2009 6:19:09 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: astounded

Sanford’s real crime is that of hubris.Only an arrogant fool
with this affair in his background would allow himself to
be a Presidential canadidate and the point man against
the Obama machine.


36 posted on 07/01/2009 6:19:39 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: astounded
cupid
37 posted on 07/01/2009 6:20:22 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (The Taxman-Malarky Bill Is War On America!)
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To: NativeNewYorker

That had to be the crappiest movie EVER


38 posted on 07/01/2009 6:21:18 AM PDT by sticker
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To: meandog

He needs to shut up, but I think he’s so delusional that he’s trying to salvage his career by inspiring empathy and making people say, “Awww, he was in loooove. It’s not his fault.”

Um, no. We’re not going to do that, Mark. We’ve all been in love, we all know what great passion is, we all know what it is like to have marital difficulties. Still, no one thinks you behaved well or are other than a moron.


39 posted on 07/01/2009 6:21:27 AM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
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To: meandog
Sanford: Not An Affair, A "Love Story"

Sanford's Presidential Aspirations: Not Just Dead, But "Beheaded, Burnt At The Stake And Buried In A Silver Lined Coffin Filled With Garlic And Holy Water."

I don't know what kind of career Gov Sanford has to look forward to in South Carolina, but his chances of going national are deader than a sunburned vampire.

40 posted on 07/01/2009 6:22:16 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: sticker
That had to be the crappiest movie EVER

What would you expect from a movie inspired by Al and Tipper Gore?

41 posted on 07/01/2009 6:22:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Moonman62

I am really beginning to believe my own conspiracy theory that the woman was hired by Democrat operatives, how else could she be such a good liar that this fool actually believes he is in love!


42 posted on 07/01/2009 6:23:01 AM PDT by rodeo-mamma
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To: meandog
"I remember there was an older couple sitting to our right, and I remember them watching us, in the way that we interacted. They could see a spark, or, I don’t know what you’d call it, but there was something there."

The "older couple" was probably thinking, "Geez, why don't you get a room," but they were too polite to say it.

His wife and kids must be so proud!

43 posted on 07/01/2009 6:23:12 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Crisis - America Held Hostage)
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To: Moonman62

Ya know, you may have something there.


44 posted on 07/01/2009 6:23:20 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Moonman62

I think he was paid off to go away but he won’t shut up.

Does his soul mate even want him?


45 posted on 07/01/2009 6:26:34 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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To: GOPJ

picking up a soulmate during a marital separation doesn’t really diminish the damage done to his marriage. and spare me the IT’S BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE, this guy’s been reduced to a quivering mass of luuuuvstruck testosterone by this little episode, we don’t need him in a serious decision-making position when he can’t prevent his “unit” from controlling his brain.


46 posted on 07/01/2009 6:26:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: All

Wait a second, I thought Sanford was a Republican...


47 posted on 07/01/2009 6:27:26 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (To view the FR@Alabama ping list, click on my profile!)
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To: rodeo-mamma

They $hit-canned dumped on Palin yesterday. NEXT...
Romney...


48 posted on 07/01/2009 6:27:49 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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To: PhiKapMom

It just goes to show you that people need to not be so prideful that they are always right, excuse me, but we are human, and we do occasionally make judgement errors. That is why I am trying to restrain my constant criticism of Palin. It’s not easy. But bottom line, she is a Republican, and that counts for something. I am also keeping it on the back burner of my mind that Mitt could still emerge as a front runner. The point is, only God knows the real truth about the heart of a man or woman. And we need to not forget it!


49 posted on 07/01/2009 6:28:10 AM PDT by rodeo-mamma
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To: eleni121
Yeah, it's worse - much worse - and the MSM is very quiet - and the same people who run with every article here that trashes Republicans are missing it too...

Odd

... Frank Lombard, associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke University. .. Lombard was recently arrested and charged with... offering, over the Internet, to have an out-of-state pervert molest his adopted 5-year-old (black ) son.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282948/posts

50 posted on 07/01/2009 6:30:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Duke University official offers to SELL a black five year old for rape parties & the MSM looks away?)
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