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 ...
Puke it is. Falling in “love” sounds a hell of a lot better than paying a hooker.
This guy is an idiot.
Shut your mouth dude.
Sanford, the GOP’s Governor Moonbeam
So was “Ben”.
I thought this had to be from The Onion....but sadly, no.
Jesus H. Tapdancin Christ, Sanford. Do the right thing and just resign already.
someone put some love potion number 9 in this mans coffee.
he needs to STFU already.
His mid-life crisis tail should havd been attached to a Corvette!
The arrows of Eros have stuck deep. And Aphrodite is laughing.
So is the world.
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”
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ooops, wrong "Sanford"... nevermind.
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.
No need to blaspheme.
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.

.... I just don't think this is deep enough yet."
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.
Way more than necessary. Sanford, stop talking about it or just get your own reality TV show.
I'm starting to wonder if he has a brain tumor.
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.
Well Governor Sanford sure is a “Big Dummy.”
Governor, if this was a love story, then why did you have to say you were sorry?
Time for this sleaze to resign and (someone should) appoint his wife as Governor! Go, Jenny!
“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...
His four sons will read this one day. His wife's divorce attorney will read it sooner.
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!
Isn’t that AlGore and Tipper in the picture????
Mr. Sanford,
Please. Stop. Talking.
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”
He can talk all he wants after he resigns.
Of course by then, nobody will be listening.
...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.
oh my gosh GO AWAY
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.
That had to be the crappiest movie EVER
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.
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.
What would you expect from a movie inspired by Al and Tipper Gore?
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!
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!
Ya know, you may have something there.
I think he was paid off to go away but he won’t shut up.
Does his soul mate even want him?
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.
Wait a second, I thought Sanford was a Republican...
They $hit-canned dumped on Palin yesterday. NEXT...
Romney...
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!
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.
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