Since when does the "other woman" get all the blame? She doesn't get any at all. Seems to me that she gets all the prizes and celebrations, while the honest wife gets dumped on. Look at McCain's first wife, Julia Robert's husband's first wife, Elizabeth Edwards... Frankly, when I first "went off" on Sanford's Argentine prostitute all the FR guys lined up to make excuses for her, mostly on the "not guilty" meme. (She's too hot to be guilty) She looked hardly better than the cheapest porn queen to me. And the damage she did to so many people was incredible...just hearing the jeers of liberals at Sanford's sanctimony was enraging.
I got arguments that suggested somehow that the woman was not to be held to any moral standard at all, like she was mentally defective, underage, etc. As a woman, that's insulting. Women are adults, and when they destroy a family they're just plain low-down immoral cats in heat.
Mark Sanford really didn't mind seeing his good wife humiliated, his children made to look ridiculous, his party made into fools, his conservative supporters like hypocritical idiots...but he really, really would have minded his skanky tramp dragged out and put in the stockade...
A lot of people did rip on Rielle. She is hated. The “other woman” is very often held in low regard. Just because our media has a love affair with sin, don’t think the rest of the world thinks it is okay. In fact, in reality, the “other woman” is scorned more frequently than not. If it’s the “other man” you just never hear about it. Keep in mind that a good number of adulterous relationships are between parties who are both married, so both are breaking their vows. Of course, in today’s secular society, true vows are often not even taken. People write up silly little promises to each other that sometimes end up meaning very little.