What makes you think the penis made the decision? Maybe Jenny Sanford is a total b-i-itch and he was so sick of putting up with her crap to the point that he didn't care anymore. Maybe even, she was the kind of "loving wife" that continually accuses her husband of cheating so he decided one day, why the hell not? She already thinks I am, I might as well have something to feel guilty about? There could be a hundred things wrong with her that we wouldn't know about. Just sayin', people learn how to play roles. And public figures learn to play their roles even better.
It is my opinion based on divorced and separated couples that I have known (as well as a couple in our neighborhood in which the wife has gone astray), that most married men AND women cheat because there is something wrong with their marriage. Not because they see an opportunity to get away with something. I can just as easily propose that Jenny Sanford is that nagging witch of a wife that has learned her role particularly well and if she really was that wonderful a wife and partner, he wouldn't have seen a need to do the horizontal rumba with this South American cutie pie.
But the good gov is still tacky to say the least.
There are ALWAYS selfish rationalizations for doing what we do...sometimes even good ones.
I know a number of African Americans that have very sound perspectives on most things--including the sanctity of life-- but they support Obortion simply because they see it as a victory for their race.
They're willing to support someone sho stands firmly against some of the values they claim are most important to them based on skin color.
It's understandable, but that doesn't me it's not selfish.
Maybe Sanford had even more justification in his mind than you give him the benefit of the doubt for. Who knows?
The difference between him and your neighbor, though, is that in deciding to put his personal freedom and happiness first, he not only betrayed a loving family, he also betrayed those who supported him financially, gave his time and put their trust in him as a leader.
He's free to be just another cheating husband and poor role model for his sons in our culture.
Your defenses sound weak, however, in shrugging off the behavior when it comes from a someone who has sought support as a leader based not just on the ability to delegate but to have sound judgment, moral clarity and self-control.
He has shown he can't be trusted in those areas.
I can only assume that, based on your argument and given what we know about Hillary, you had no problem with Bill Clinton's behavior in the Oval Office with Miss Lewinsky.
Personally I don't want either of them leading my nation or providing a role model to my children.
What makes you think the penis made the decision? Maybe Jenny Sanford is a total b-i-itch and he was so sick of putting up with her crap to the point that he didn’t care anymore. Maybe even, she was the kind of “loving wife” that continually accuses her husband of cheating so he decided one day, why the hell not? She already thinks I am, I might as well have something to feel guilty about? There could be a hundred things wrong with her that we wouldn’t know about. Just sayin’, people learn how to play roles. And public figures learn to play their roles even better.
Those are the excuses a man makes for having an affair. Not the reasons.
Whiney and pathetic excuses.
If you're unhappy in your marriage, get counseling or get a divorce.
Your "solution" is the cowardly scumbag route.
Jenny Sanford showed some class when announcing her separation.
He husband acted like an ass. At every turn. Up to and including that bizarre press conference.
wonder how it feels to look into his sons eyes and realize they know exactly what he has done, they have no doubt read the emails that have been published and to know that he is setting an example of how to treat women. his primary responsibility was to his children.
I was once in a Baptist church where a deacon ran off with a much younger woman in the choir. For the record, she wasn’t guilty, so to speak.
Obviously, he didn’t stay a deacon. However, the pastor, who was in his early 70s, told me not to be too quick to judge.
“I’ve been in their home a number of times, and I’ve never heard a woman criticize a man so often or so thoroughly. I’ve been married over 50 years, but if my wife had acted like that, I wouldn’t have lasted one.”
It could also be that she froze him out of the marriage bed brfore he ever thought of having an affair. That would have been infidelity, too. We just don’t know, and shouldn’t, what goes on behind closed doors.