A Ten-Day Nookie Run Turned Break Up?
I gotta say this for Mark Sanford. For a guy who–at least until recently–has a pretty serious Sugar Momma, he travels frugally. According to Ben Smith, the ten day trip to Buenos Aires he booked on June 10 appears to have been done with frequent flier miles.
On or around the day his wife asked him to move out, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford booked a ten-day trip to Buenos Aires, a person familiar with the governor’s travel plans told POLITICO.
Sanford booked the trip on Delta Air Lines on June 10, using the company’s SkyMiles program, the source said. He bought a ticket for June 18, returning June 28.
Though maybe he was thinking the whole Sugar Momma thing might be coming to an end soon…
But here’s the thing. As much as you don’t book a five day trip to do a painful break up with your mistress, you definitely don’t book a ten day trip to break up with your mistress.
Which sorta suggests that when he went down there, he wasn’t going to break up with her. And at least according to reports, while Sanford’s father-in-law and wife knew of his affair–as well as "the Family"–the State had not yet verified his emails with his former staffer or office. So the affair wasn’t, necessarily, going to get beyond his immediate family and the Christian Conservatives counseling him on this.
Here’s the updated "Family Affair" timeline:
June 10: Sanford books flight to Buenos Aires, gets kicked out by wife
June 11: Doug Hampton sends letter to Fox, via FedEx
June 12: Fox News receives Hampton’s letter
June 15: Doug Hampton emails letter to Fox
June 16: Ensign admits affair
June 18: Sanford disappears to Buenos Aires (telling his staff he might be hiking in the Appalachian trail)
June 19: Publication of letter suggests ties to the Family
June 24: Actual return date
June 28: Planned return date for Sanford
Now, frankly, seeing the timeline today, I’m less convinced than I was yesterday there’s a link between the timing of the two. Most likely (as Smith suggests) either Sanford booking the flight led to getting kicked out by his wife, or vice versa. And the latter scenario–that she kicked him out and said, "don’t come back till you’ve broken it off," at which point he booked the flight. (But ten days!?!?!?)
In any case, Sanford’s back with his wife today. So I guess the two of them can work together toward rebuilding his political career their marriage.
I promise. I’m going to return to more serious matters today. I made the crucial mistake today of staying in my office to blog, where it got way too hot and fried my brain, and all I can manage is another Sanford post.
A big thunderstorm came through and–at least for the moment–broke up the heat, but if comes back, I’m blogging from the basement tomorrow.
That strange thunderstorm — you sent it here next. It was very strange. One moment, gorgeous weather. Absolutely no warning before the cracks of thunder that made me and teh kittehs hit the decks. And then it was gone, and it’s gorgeous again. Tornado Alley (around London, Ont., and northeast of there) got some twisters.
We are actually getting news telling us that the weather is coming from Michigan. For some reason, that tickles my funnybone.
Heh. Funny. We’d seen a tornado warning in Monroe County about 5:00 pm(county’s south of Marcy), big cells headed east over Lake Erie, and more from north of Detroit to Flint headed east across Lake Huron. (Big lightning strikes here north of Flint, but no rain.) Didn’t even think about all this stuff heading towards Ontario.
Batten down, looks like you Ontarians will be busy for the next 2-3 hours with weather.
Yup, they have told us that Michigan is sending us more tonight, and maybe tomorrow.
“The tornado from Michigan” — heh heh heh. I just sit here thinking, “Hey — I know her!”
“Hey, I know her !” – skdadl
707 … *clink*
i think he was throwing it all away .. and the other woman said “no” ..
Occam’s Razor would indicate this is the case. Many many times the mistress will not want the whole dude all to herself, just the good parts.
Especially once his money supply is cut off — and his was all in his wife’s hands.
Do we know the man had no funds of his own? I thought I’d read he had sizable real estate of his own, prior to tying the knot with the current Mrs. Sanford.
I think Sanford booked this not intending to break it off. And I think the frequent flyer mileage usage was a method to hide the trip. For example: I don’t have my spouse’s frequent flyer account info as it’s tied up with his business, and I’m sure he’s got a crapload of miles on his account. Hell, for all I know, my own spouse left for Argentina to see his girlfriend on the 13th this month (when I took him to the airport) and got back yesterday; I have nothing to prove he wasn’t there since all his accounts are entwined with business stuff and I don’t have access to them. Could have been the same scenario with Sanford and his missus — but I think somebody must have tipped her off.
Bet the emails had a little wider circulation than just The State…would be fascinating to know the rest of the backstory to the distribution of those missives, hmmm?
Yes, I’m quite curious to know how the emails got to The State. And last December, no less!
December…as in X number of days after the election…hmmm.
Ruh roh, gonna be some Cheeto stains on the jammies…..
Admit it, you are shifting to celebrity death blogging.
Don’t know how you maintain your intelligent brain down in the desert. I just can’t think when my brain gets over 80 degrees.
Heh, there has long been a serious question about the “intelligence” part of the equation.
celebrity death blogging.
oh yeah baby.
belly laugh
Ten days? Booked over a week ahead of time? To break up? get out!
Like I said when this started, if he was serious about breaking up, he doesn’t go at all.
Yup, yup, yup.
The only breakup he was planning was with his wife. But Maria wasn’t interested in having her part-time fling become a full-time roomie. Especially since he would be a full-time dead-broke roomie.
that smells of truth that does.
If he had made up his mind to break it off, he did not need to go to Argentina to do it. People have been known to break up on the telephone. He could have sent her a “Dear Maria” letter.
Did he book the flight before or after his wife gave him an ultimatum?
He did not know The State had the e-mails until after he had already scheduled the press conference. He was still not admitting his affair to the reporter that met him getting off the plane in Atlanta and was surprised to see her. He was in a deep state of denial.
Yup. That’s pretty much my thinking too. I was wondering whether he didn’t intend to break up but then did as the shit over his absence started hitting the fan.
Maybe Sanford was trying to replicate the Thorn Birds.
I did not need that image of Richard Chamberlain playin’ in my head at Beer Thirty … switching to Single Malt now !
You saw his earlier reference to the Thorn Birds?
Yes’m, I did … care for some Single Malt ?
BTW, Richard Chamberlain did a made-for-TV movie “Bourne Identity” with teh hot Jaclyn Smith, in which there was a (for that time) torrid love scene … after seeing it, I said he was gay but my sisters mocked me … he was just so uncomfortable touching Jaclyn …
*not that there’s anything wrong with that *
The other movie he identified with so much that he promised to send a video was ‘The Holiday.’ Now, I have to look that one up and see what it was all about.
The e-mails I read were all from the heady days just after the week-end in Bs.As. He must have done a lot of vacillating over the last year. He was not going to choose until he was forced to by circumstances beyond his control.
“The Thorn Birds”…is that some sort of exotic Czech dissent literature?
Heh.
This is a story about a man and his drug of choice. It’s also a story about a woman and her drug of choice. Best of all, it’s a story about an electorate and its drug of choice.
Yes I’m hooked, and no, I haven’t hit bottom yet….
Me neither. Why? I have no such problem with the regular flow of philanderers. What matters more is if they’re worthy of condemn[ation] worthy for their politics. I tend to assume they have sex organs. But this short story actually threatens to make me feel sort of hopeful for a clearly repugnant establishment moron – but, I fear, in some big way because he’s being devoured in his own nest.
Further reason for excusing fearless leader’s yielding to perez temptation: the characteristically evocative timeline. We feel it; she times it; and it’s in the record books.
Ah, snap! I seem to have got so old, now I can be lured by my babyface/puppies gene toward the magic kingdom of Regan revisionism. Thankfully, first ms e wheel is there to pull me out with one of her deft timelines [They don’t even have to be perfect!], and then young Cenk is there to hit me with a bucket of cold WTFU therapy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFy-sjnPG2E
OT Michael Jackson has died – cardiac arrest
Sad news … he was an amazing talent before he became eccentric.
Please. It’s bad enough that this news has hijacked MSNBC for hours on end. Not here too.
Now, as to the important matters: I’m really thinking that Mr. Big Bucks Father-in-law may have had a hand in this, particularly the sending of the e-mails to the State.
Perhaps I watch too many Law & Order and CSI re-runs, but here you’ve got a rich guy, and the son-in-law is doing his daughter wrong. Even if you initially signed up because you supported him politically, I’m thinking Pops would be really mad about this.
Plus, he’d have the $$$$ to hire a team of detectives to follow Mr. Son-in-Law — to the Appalachian Trail even.
Another possible culprit would be Sugar Mama – Mrs. Sanford herself.
It would not be beyond reason for her to have had access to his email account(s), nor to outing him in order to make roadkill of his political career.
As they say, payback is a bitch!
where it got way too hot and fried my brain
You would not be the only one. That A/C is going on tomorrow even if it doesn’t make 90.
There may be a groundswell building to force him out:
http://apnews.myway.com//artic…..UO900.html
I think the repubs are looking at 18 months of dealing with him as the Governor, and thinking that in the next election, he’ll be a state-millstone around their necks, just as Bush was one on the national level.
Now come the questions about using state funds for flying off to Argentina, and for any other liasons. Since he admits that it’s been going on for a year, where has Maria been for all that time?
Enquiring Columbia State reporters want to know. :o)
I think he had one shot to lay it ALL out, and then hang on by his fingernails. If it comes out that there’s more to this; that he’s still lying about aspects of it, then he’s probably gone.
Why has there not been more citation of this?
Emphasis on my favorite line.
A possible tipping point to look for; repub State Senator Glenn McConnell wields a LOT of clout in Columbia. If he starts talking resignation then Sanford’s days are probably numbered.
some guy named Glenn McCall, a local RNC poohbah has called for him to resign. Not the same guy you are talking about is it?
That bit suggests there is much larger gamesmanship going on right now, a concerted effort to “de-whiten” the leadership of the party while increasing the odds that an unimpeachable theocrat will run in 2012 (somebody’s weeding out the Repub’s version of John Edwards NOW before they can impact either the 2010 or 2012 races).
McCall is one of the rare African American Republican leaders, could be using this as an opportunity to build cred at the expense of now-disposable Sanford. He’s also seen the opportunity for Christianist base resurgency among youth and the libertarian Paulists:
Yeah. Not a good indicator for Sanford, and an indicator of a continued need for vigilance on the left.
Yeah, I saw somewhere else (can’t recall where) speculation that someone was clearing the Republican field in preparation for a theocratic candidate.
As for Paul supporters, the GOP would dearly love to have them, but the GOP won’t adopt Paul’s policies, especially foreign. You notice how two types of Paul supporters are identified. I think the Paul supporters who most like his foreign policy tend not to be the loyal Republicans, or even worse for the GOP, used to be until they came to understand Paul’s philosophy.
if i loved a woman enough to take the extraordinary risks sanford took, i sure wouldn’t come back to purgatory – i’d just stay there and take up argentine citizenship.
argentina can use goood political talent, too.
sanford might not even have to convert; just initiate his redemption and rise by sponsoring prayer breakfasts at the foot of christ of the andes.
This is so far beneath you…
I mean, I know everybody must feed the beast now and again, but you are so much better than this…
JMHO.
Oh please.
This woman busts hump, makes the mainstream media as a whole look like slackers.
And she’s got a legitimate issue here, whether a shady Christianist group controls the political futures of American politicians or not.
Or perhaps you missed the political repercussions she’s addressing, suggesting that EW is not the one with the lack of focus?
I get it Rayne…I know who she is…
All I am saying is “be the change”
She has better things to do….we all do, no?
I’m sure you have better things to do as well … better get to them …
Actually, she’s doing “the change” thing, has been all along. It’s extremely disconcerting that not one but two men affiliated with a Christianist organization have been “outed” inside the last couple of weeks.
Why not months ago? Why now?
What other “outings” have happened which are tied to these kinds of groups? What political machinations have been forced on us already because of the same group or groups?
And why aren’t other members of the mainstream media looking more closely at the relationship between these “outed” men and this group or groups which strive for a theocracy?
Sorry. This is the change we need, the kind which prevents our democracy from becoming a theocracy led by the likes of Huckabee, Romney or Palin.
The funny thing is, when the header of the blog says “Emptywheel”, that kind of means that you don’t get to choose the content and you don’t have to read it or comment if it doesn’t suit you. Just saying….
MauiMom@14: interestin’ theory, but would dad irrevocably out Sanford without talking to his daughter about it? I mean, it looks like she’s willing to give it a shot to hold the marriage together. Hard to think that her dad would have dropped the email dime on Sanford without having her okay it.
Cent@28; to whom are you talking? If it’s Marcy, she, and we, are discusing/enjoying the continuing implosion of:
The republican party…
An erstwhile prospective rescuer of the republican party…
The kharmic comeuppance of yet another pious “family-values” practioner…
I don’t understand what “beneath you” means. I haven’t seen or read from anyone here who makes the cut as Mother Teresa, which is OK, since no one here is claiming that.
I just happened to be back in SC visiting my mother when the SHTF about Sanford. I don’t like him for a lot of reasons. Not so much to do with ideology, but he is just a f*ing idiot. Of course my mom likes him and is “properly” distressed at the “disgrace.”
I have “had” three wives so I can’t hold it against him for drifting in his marriage so much, as I do for the pain he has and will cause his 4 young sons.
His wife and of course father in law, the Mr “Skil” the Money Man should kick him to the curb and move the boys out of SC.
It also appears that the other woman isn’t all she is supposed to be either. That is according to my niece but I haven’t bothered to check on that.
Hell, a beautiful woman died today. That is the real sorrow!
Well, the good news is, one of our own, Chaconne, received a NetRoots Nation scholarship! Congratters, Chaconne!
Congratulations, Chaconne, who has so often touched my heart.
5 to 4 he resigns, 2:1 he up and goes to the Argentine and we don’t hear from him for a while. He can’t be a member of the promise breakers here, but he can use his member there.
WaPo reports that Sanford was, like Ensign, a member of the 133 C Street group.
Huckabee and Romney and Palin…Oh, my….
Fair enough Rayne…
Just availing myself of the process…my disappointment on this distraction has been logged…
Enjoy yourself. I’ll get back to the health care blogs now…
orionATL@25
“… at the foot of christ of the andes.”
scratch that.
replace with
“…at the feet of jesus of the andes.”
one thing i’m not clear about. if you’re going to drop a dime on the sexploits of a republican, why to fox news?
To make sure that all the conservatives hear about it and that they believe it immediately. If you go to “the Liberal Media” the initial media hit will be “those damn libruls will say anything to smear a fine upstanding conservative . . .” OTOH, to the GOP faithful, if Fox says it, it must be true.
Another point for a managed event of some kind?
that’s a crossover issue from the rapidly disappearing john ensign adultery kerfuffle ..
or .. excuse me if i misinterpreted your question //
good gawd …at the recent crop of scolds here at FDL .. not to mention the damn hair-trigger nazi censors in residence ..
sheesh …
Bmaz@48; no, they’re different people. Sorry; the similarity of names is a bit confusing and I should have noted that when I was talking about McConnell. His “powerbase”, or what passes for one in S.C., is in Charleston. He was the Chairman of the Hunley Committee, to recover and restore the CW submarine. There’s a Charleston freeway named after him. He’s a friend of the powerful Ravenel family, the scion of which, Thomas Ravenel, it may be remembered, was the State Treasurer and the S.C. chairman of Rudy Giuliani’s campaign until he developed a nasal problem.
McConnell is into re-enactments, etc., and is pretty much of a down-the-line conservative. HEAVY supporter of keeping the confederate flag flying on the statehouse lawn. He’s 62 and may yet live long enough to see South Carolina rejoin the Union. :o)
Sanford can’t afford to lose him. If he does, it will go a long way toward hamstringing him as he tries to stay in power.
And JKat@56, as someone who’s mixed it up a bit, and never been banned, I have to say that there are no nazi censors on EW.
In fact, no one is censoring anything. Some of us are just pointing out that talking about the latest escaped republican trouser-snake is not “beneath” Marcy or anyone else on here. It’s important because the GOP is imploding in front of our eyes, and it behooves us to pay attention and to think of ways to capitalize on it politically.
You, of course, are welcome to take the “high road” and ignore it, if you wish, but most of us are enjoying watching the “family values” punjabs eat another sex scandal. A couple more of these, and with any luck, every time one of the abstinence-for-everyone-but-us priests starts carping about the lack of “moral legitimacy”, there will be so many people (including more and more of the MSM) hooting in derision, that we just might get them stump-broke from talking about it.
To paraphrase Garth Brooks: “We’ve got friends in low places.” :o)
Whatever the answer, a foreigner doesn’t book a nearly week-long trip to Buenos Aires to break up with a lover. Not unless there was a lot more to clean up than whether she had his e-mail address or phone number. Or unless he wasn’t saying goodbye, but see ya later.
I’m still not sure about a managed right-wing conspiracy in these outings. I don’t know much at all about Ensign’s standing in Nevada, but here in S.C., there are plenty of office-holding republicans who would stand in line for a few hours, on a sunny day, to get in a lick at Sanford. I have a notion that this was brewing for a good while, and it just came to a head because too many people in Columbia were talking about it and about the vacuum in the governor’s chair…that and the fact that the Columbia State decided to go with what they had because they were practically certain that the rest of the iceberg would quickly become visible.
Sanford had worked so hard at convincing the voters of what a “maverick” he was that he convinced a lot of the GOP structure here that he thought he could do very well without their help or their input. I think he had maxed out on his capital, BEFORE he started tangoing, so he aint got a lot to barter with, to hang on as governor.
I think the question is going to resolve itself along the lines of simple self-interest: Will the republicans in S.C. be better off by dumping him? Or by letting him hang on while they periodically use him as a kind of redneck pinata, to see what they can beat out of him, as far as the legislature’s agenda, goes.
For a while, it’s going to be a day-to-day thing, as to whether he can remain in office. The “votes” are being counted, as we post. :o)
whoa tanbark ..i’m not scolding .. i was referring to scolds .. i have no problem with this topic .. or any topic .. i’m a very easy going poster/reader ..
as to the nazi censors .. i’ve had two notes edited this week .. by mods ..
one earlier this week .. wherein i made a reference to “braiding the noose” if someone else furnished the rope .. [concerning punishment of the torture team] and it got blipped with [”reference to violence edited by mod”] and today .. on the main page i asked a scold/troll why they come here if they [1] don’t like the venue [2] don’t like the posters and [3] don’t approve of the topics ..other than to just be a “hemorrhoid” ..and “hemmorroid” got edited out .. neither of the notes approach anything near what i have seen other posters to this site put up ..so it’s really a curious thing ..imo ..
hence my reference to nazi censors ..
now .. back to “as the world turns” … lol
3 . . 2 . . 1 . . .
I don’t consider it nazi-like for mods to enforce long standing rules around here about comments that advocate (even in jest) violence, especially violence against government officials.
pfffblltt !! that’d be former gub’mint officials ..they’re just common citizens now … and that was with the caveat in the note of “after an investigation and trial” there peterr .. i’m a strong believer and supporter of the rule of law m’friend ..as well as a former serving officer of the USMC who strictly believes in the hague conventions ..the GC’s and the UCMJ .. so there’s no need for you to jump nearly that high in my regard ..
i’ve only been around here about a year .. and i administer a forum elsewhere … it’s not like i’m some rabid vigilante proposing the lynching of governmental officials .. who’d mail my disability check eh ??
now .. issue closed .. okay friend ..i’ll rest ..
i admire your posts .. i certainly don’t want to argue with you over spilled milk .. i didn’t like the way it was done .. it made it look like something untoward was in the post .. which wasn’t he case .. hence my objection ..
i’m usually very astute at picking up and following the tenor of the community .. if i get out of line .. you let me know .. i like this particular venue at FDL ..and read far more often than i post ..
Sounds good.
What with all the hassles that folks like Jane, Christy, and Marcy have to deal with, responding to questions from the US Secret Service is something they’d rather not have to worry about — which is why comments like that get modded.
Peace.
(And thanks for the comments on my posts!)
I don’t think Sanford went to “break it off.” I think he just plain “went.” When he was surprised by the reporter getting off the plane, he continued the b.s. Then the paper called his office and said, “we got these emails,” so he called the Presser and came clean before their next edition. Frankly, I wonder if he’s a guy who has actually “fallen in love” for the first time, and the tragedy isn’t his affair after all. That’s the way it would play in a romance novel – sometimes it happens in real life…
Jkat, sorry. I didn’t mean to go off on you. I DO get a little hair trigger, sometimes, but I’m workin’ on it/myself. Really.
But this is political manna; ongoing hypocrite-cream-pie, in the face of the very core of the party and the philosophy that has nearly ruined us with their demagoguery. My 2c, calling it trivial or kerfluffle, is a huge mistake. If it keeps up, it will effectively shut down the firebox on the conservative locomotive, and it doesn’t have too far to go. :o)
Like bmaz sez, you don’t make a trip to another country to break up with someone.
You can do it by phone. If Sanford’s priorities are where he says they are, he should have broken it off by not answering the latina’s phone calls.
The visit for the sake of grieving excuse is obviously pure bullshit.
Also, I think the Argentina lady is still there for him if he wants her.
I think I’ll go with PhoenixWoman and some more people on here. Sanford is looking and behaving as a man who went down to try to find true love, and was willing to chuck it all for her, and found out that it doesn’t exist, at least, from the lady whom was his lover for the past year.
When he came back, it was all coming apart, and he with it. The repubs are shitting green nickels at what’s happening to the GOP. Now he’s got to convince some powerful people in his own party that he won’t drag them down to defeat if they let him finish out his 18 months. If they stand with him, and squelch the resignation calls, they will own him, which situation might be attractive enough for them to keep him.
Nothing compares to a trip to another country to make love to a beautiful love interest. Imborrable momentos que siempre guarda corazon.
What keeps coming to mind is that if he had thrown it all over; resigned and gone for a divorce, and then headed off to Patagonia, I think he would have had some grudging respect, generally speaking. I can’t get away from BoringGoldman’s thought that this may have been love. If it was a middle-age climateric, that doesn’t mean the depth of feelings weren’t there.
No way am I defending Sanford, especially, his shit-foul hypocrisy and his seeming unawareness of it, but it happens. If souls open, everything becomes trivial. Everything.
Sanford’s soul-searing Christian, hypocritical judgment (of others) comes before all else in Sanford’s worldview. He did not have the ability to get to that jumping off point that would be necessary to pursue the desires of his heart. I think that he became enamored with a romantic idea. He was mostly horny – and not much more than that. He sought to fill a vacancy that was both physical and emotional.
His Christian hypocrisy will not allow him to admit to others that he carried a red-hot-burning-physical desire for this Argentina. That aspect of human-ness must be tamped down and denied at any and all costs to the individual. Piety demands it.
Failure is guaranteed for such Christians, Muslims, Jews, et al.
How did that one go “”Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”
Really like it when these fucking hypocrites like Sanford, Gingrich etc have their hypocritical shit thrown right back in their two faces
Sorry; I should have said: Everything ELSE becomes trivial. :o)
What the hell; we’re all winging it.
I’m going to post this clip. It’s sweetest, sexiest, dancing I’ve ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
i certainly agree the 10 day window is odd and stand by original thought .. he took off and was chucking it all .. she either talked him out of it .. or didn’t want a full time gig ..
either way .. he’s got a big streak of hypocrisy in him ..and apparently a few loose screws ..
as to his finances .. he appears to have money and property of his own .. separate from the skilsaw heiress ..
this isn’t his first “wild thang” episode either ..from what little i’ve gathered .. he’s a bit unorthodox for the generally staid republicans [in image only]
breaking: Guinness Book turns down Mark Sanford’s bid for new record for break-up sex.
If you’ve read their mushie gushie emails, you’d think these lovebirds aren’t exactly Scot & Zelda — except for this.
In a message from the bottle of his farm, Scot … er, Mark … resorting to his forte, namely a cliche: “my head is saying how do we put the Genie back in the bottle because I sure don’t want to be encumbering you”.
Then Zel…Maria responds: “I don’t want to put the genius back in the bottle because I truly believe in freedom. I never gave you sexual details but now you don’t need to imagine you can close your eyes and just remember. I’ll do the same.”
Kinda says it all.
http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html
I wish I knew how to quit this.
i pulled two six month tours on TDY with the DIA peterr .. they know right where to find me if they ever have a need to .. and i understand the potential hassles.. i’m TDRL .. [temporary disability retirement list] and technically still subject to the UCMJ .. separated ..but not discharged .. i have no desire to get in ..or start any shitstorms ..
i’ll make an honest effort to be kinder and gentler …
dude skipped out on his duties for five fucking days
forget the other stuff (you sick gossipy bastids)
homey abandoned his state
granted, South Carolina is pretty podunk as states go, but still, they need real leadership in hickville too
I can’t believe I read this …
Well, well, well. The WaPo actually reports on the C Street house and the coincidence of Ensign & Sanford’s affairs. Even sniffs around if there might be a problem with this kind of arrangement…
‘Course with the Michael Jackson news, no one will notice.
Well, it looks like there was not going to be a breakup, at least until the story broke, north of the border. From Friday’s NYDN:
. (Emphasis added).
So, in addition to a hard-core Christianist running around on Mrs. Skilsaw, he’s indulging in Demon Rum…. In public. While pawing his mistress.
But he was crying all over her cleavage, I’m sure.
Jennie Sanford, even as she talks about salvaging the marriage:
“His career is not of my concern.”
Translation to the S.C. legislature and the GOP honchos:
“Y’all get him!”
And that influential state senator, Glenn McConnell, is now talking about resignation.
Both of which made me think he’s gone, but then the Lt. Governor, Bauer (not exactly Abe Lincoln waiting in the wings, himself…) is now saying that Sanford should stay on. Maybe Bauer can’t handle the spotlight being turned on all of HIS stuff.
The bottom line, or one of them, is that if Sanford stays, everytime the “saints” of the GOP start issuing morality instructions, there will be loud hoots of derision. If the republicans want to hold on to him, maybe that will work out best.
For us. :o)
this is a good one
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/25/stinking-rot/
Republican SC lawmaker: GOP needs to ‘lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness.’