I’m gonna start to wonder if a conspiracy is afoot to contaminate our nation’s governors’ regular, respectable booze and powder cocaine with some more stupefying drugs. Either that or alien mind control, how do you explain the spate of misadventure from state chief execs. Sanford, Blago, Spitzer, etc. … Sweet Jesus on rollerskates…
…and let me get this straight: he flies off to Argentina, abandoning his post leaving EVERYONE in the dark, risking blowing everything he has worked for, to BREAK UP with his lover?
… And the Mrs. says that THIS has earned him a new chance?? Wait: does this mean she WAS in on the whole scheme, or that she approves of this way of handling things? Dang!
Couldn’t he had done this OPENLY? Had a press conference announcing yes, I’ve had an affair, she’s in Argentina I’m confessing before anyone else outs me, I’m breaking it off? He’d have come out as a stand-up yeah-I-f*ed-up-and-I-admit-it guy and it could not possibly have hurt him more than THIS.
Well, there’s the “OhmygodIhaven’tseenyouinsolong” sex, followed by the “Igottagetthisinbeforewehavethetalk” sex. Then, there’s the “okaymaybeifIdothisthiswayshewillstopcryingandscreaming” sex.
The real issue here is that the gov, more so than most cheating politicians, is just a big dumb high school kid with a crush. Witness this excerpt from this email to “Maria.”
and compare it to the classic adolescent love song “Cherish”
Do the good people of South Carolina really want to entrust their well-being to someone whose emotional stability is at the level of a 1960’s pop song?
nothing like over-the-top emails read by keith olbermann with swarmy romantic music.
sounds like his wife has the moral high ground staked out and claimed. i’m sure that second chance stuff was just to sound good, i’m sure it is more like… oh, i think not, buckaroo! and she joins the sweet potato queens.
I think maybe his wife meant that breaking it off with this “good friend” has earned him a second chance.
It shouldn’t take 7 days to end an affair, though…even excluding travel time. Heck, a phone call is the way most people on here advocate ending relationships!
If this woman cared about him so much, after knowing him as a friend for so long… why did she not say, “I don’t want to ruin your career and your future, so please don’t call?” They both had to know the risks and the ruin involved. It’s not like he was going to be running into her at the office or the country club, reopening the wound every day.
So how jazzed is André Bauer right now? I mean, your boss having a sex scandal is kind of the raison d’etre of the second-in-command, right? I always wondered that with Pat Quinn, David Paterson, etc. You totally know Joe Biden prays every night that the President will start to get bored with the First Lady one of these days.
This is the one (and only one) reason I would not like to see Gov. Sanford resign. Bauer is a joke. Poor South Carolina - a liar and cheat or an egomaniacal idiot.
No, Bricker, I think it must mean that Democrats aren’t “hypocrites” when they have affairs. They may not approve, they simply don’t disapprove in advance.
No, it means that few Democrats feel that, with respect to people in general, who does what with whom in bed should be a political issue, while most Republican politicians do (Gov. Sanford most definitely included).
Few Democratic politicians make a political issue of the importance of, say, “the sanctity of marriage.” Most GOP politicians do. If you don’t make a political issue of the sanctity of marriage, and you cheat on your wife, you’re just being a jerk to your wife; end of story.
If you DO make an issue over it, and then you cheat on your wife, then you’re saying that that “sanctity of marriage” BS wasn’t all that important to you, really, when the rubber hit the road. And if a political party is overwhelmingly against gay marriage because of the importance of preserving the “sanctity of marriage,” but aren’t willing to kick Vitter and Ensign out of their caucus for their violations of marriage’s sanctity, then the whole party doesn’t mean what it says, and the value its political stances should be appropriately downgraded as mere posturing.
