Posted on 06/24/2009 12:13:57 PM PDT by FromLori
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, apologized in a rambling news conference on Wednesday for having an extra-marital affair with a woman in Argentina, ending a mystery over his week-long disappearance that had infuriated lawmakers and seemed to put his rising political career in jeopardy.
Governor Sanford admitted he had been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since Thursday, not hiking on the Appalachian Trail as he told his staff. In revealing an affair that had gone on for about a year — and which he had disclosed to his wife, Jenny, five months ago, he said: “This was selfishness on my part.”
Mr. Sanford announced on Wednesday that he was resigning his position as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
In an interview with The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday morning, Mr. Sanford said he had taken an unplanned trip to the South American country to recharge after a difficult legislative session in which he battled with lawmakers over accepting a portion of the federal stimulus funding.
He had considered hiking the trail, he said. “But I said ‘no’ I wanted to do something exotic,” Mr. Sanford told The State. “It’s a great city.”
Only at the news conference did he reveal why he traveled there.
The whispers about the missing governor started as early as Friday, when one lawmaker and outspoken rival of Mr. Sanford was quietly outraged that the governor had left the state without a plan for a transfer of power in the event of an emergency.
State Senator John M. Knotts, Jr., a Republican, said in a telephone interview that he got a tip from a caller — whom he would not identify —
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Another one bites the dust.
strike him from consideration.
Has the GOP sunk this low to have expected this type of man to climb the ladder up, yet have these type of deficiencies, apparently of a non-casual variety?
Not sad, infuriating and stupid and selfish.
We will know more about this affair within 24 hours than we will ever know about John Edwards affair and the subsequent love child.
Stupid bastard. Conservatives can’t get away with this.
So many of these politicians were so smart as children that they were able to skip kindergarden.
They missed the lesson to the little boys:
Keep your pee-pee in your pants!
He’ll be fine. At least he admits it and appears genuinely sorry. The GOP as a whole on the other hand hasn’t even admitted they have a problem yet.
Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing to the public perception of conservatives, Sanford, you turd.
Proving the age-old axiom that "p#ssy will make a man stupid"
“I wanted to do somebody exotic.”
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But he won't be president.
I think it's safe to say that his political career no longer SEEMS to be in jeopardy.
Sarah will never have to embarrass herself, her family, or her party like this.
Agree but it is sad for his wife and family.
Another would be hopeful is gone from consideration. GOP needs to get their head out of their fourth point of contact and start looking / running a candidate otherwise it will be an 8 year obama administration and I don’t think we can afford that.
Give estrogen a chance!
prepare for the media Sandford-a-thon. Perfect timing to distract the nation from all of the important issues.
We all should be very pissed at this jackass for giving them just another reason to dessimate conservatives with their VERY LOUD megaphone.
I have had enough of all of these people. Remember when only the enquirer would cover Edwards cheating on wife with cancer, paying mistress with campaign funds, and bonus point-having a love child.
“He’ll be fine....
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But he won’t be president.”
If he were a Democrat, the ladies of NOW would be standing behind him in support.
He and Mitt Romney have something in common then.
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