Race to the bottom
What will bottom out first, the economy or the Republican Party? In yet another example of marriage infidelity, the South Carolina Governor and father of 4, admitted to having an affair with an Argentinian woman.
Mr. Sanford talked of God, his faith and his family, issuing vague mea culpas before solving the mystery. "I've been unfaithful to my wife," he told the throng of reporters, adding that he had spent the past five days "crying in Argentina."
...In the arms of my mistress. Sorry I just had to finish his statement. Plus did he really have to make the "crying in Argentina" reference.
The best part was the end of the article when the WSJ just twists the knife right into the side of Mr. Sanford.
After winning election to Congress in 1994, Mr. Sanford voted to impeach President Bill Clinton after his deceptions regarding an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Around the same time, he said he struggled with whether to support Rep. Bob Livingston, who was in line to be House speaker when he acknowledged extramarital affairs. "We as a party want to hold ourselves to high standards, period," Mr. Sanford said during a 1998 interview with the Associated Press.
Mr. Sanford's recent disappearance wasn't a surprise to some allies and friends. A surfer and one-time nationally ranked runner, he often sought out time for himself. He would regularly sneak away from the governor's mansion in downtown Columbia. Sometimes he'd ride his bike through the old state hospital compound, a desolate property in a troubled part of town, according to people familiar with the situation.
There is also a bit in there that might be of interest to one of the bloggers here, I live it to him to find the nugget.
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Thank you for not including snippets of the emails between him and his mistress that are circulating the internet right now. Embarrassing.
What was the deal with making up some elaborate story about hiking in the mountains? That was beyond bizarre. And of course, the predictable bludgeons are being wielded to smash conservatism, as if adultery is somehow part and parcel to it.
I'd have to say however that if there is anything in Washington that is bipartisan, it's having a mistress.
"Have I said to much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do
Is look at me to know
That every word is true
Don't cry for me Argentina!"
@ Adam, conservatism is being attacked because the most fun any hypocrite can have is to point out hypocrisy in others. We on the right do it to the left all the time. They're getting a moment to themselves. It'll pass.
Well Sanford is a hypocrite. But he is also someone who has spoken out against rampant spending and the Nanny state that Obama is ramming down everyone's throats. His adultery makes him a hypocrite, but it doesn't negate the validity of fiscal responsibility, low taxes, a free market, and so on.
Nor does it undo socially conservative ideas about morality and marriage and religion.
All it does is ruin his political career, which might have been promising, and prove him a hypocrite.
Now if he would just lie under oath and get impeached he could have almost the same resume as Bill Clinton.
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