“I have been unfaithful to my wife, I have developed a relationship with what started as a dear, dear friend from Argentina… it began very innocently as I suspect these things do… just a casual email back and forth…”
Told you there was more to the story, and that I thought the more was going to end up being something that might be displeasing to a wife, like say … her husband running off to Argentina to hook up with someone (and said wife already knew he had hooked up with that person before).
Interestingly absent from the press conference was the usual clenched-jaw wife standing behind him trying to act like her husband isn’t announcing to the world that he had an affair. I always wonder why those wives go through that, sometimes even bringing along the kids. If I were in that situation, the rat bastard would be standing up there all alone … so good on Jenny Sanford for NOT being there.
What’s really ridiculous is this: how in the world did he think he would not be caught?! I have been cheated on by some very clever men, and even the most ignorant of them blows this guy away on setting up plausible deniability and alibis! High school kids are better at it! I seriously don’t know what he was thinking. Well, I guess he wasn’t thinking, at least not with his brain.
So … it is indeed a career ending event. I don’t see him running for President in 2012, and I’m not even sure he’s going to manage to be governor for too much longer.
What is up with the “family values” party? They can’t seem to keep their dicks in their pants!
His wife has to have known she married a sociopath. She’s not a dropout from Mill Town. Golddiggers are pretty much the female analog to the male megalomaniac. They’re in it for the power and security, i.e., cash. There will be a lot of blather about counseling, Jesus, contrition, all the while their respective law firms argue the asset allocation. Then when it’s finally announced it’ll be presented as a sad inevitability, but we both love our kids very, very much!
My only question is why did he marry in the first place?
Politicians think they have to be married, and it seems to me they go out looking for the “perfect” wife in many cases. You know, the one that looks good on the PR package and can speak in public. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any big time politicos who aren’t (or at least weren’t) married. I’ll have to look that up tomorrow.
Family values parties never can control themselves. Over in the UK the biggest proponent of ever-tighter controls on porn was the same politician who was caught claiming for porn on expenses.
In my personal life, I have found that people who most strongly feel that Thing X should be outlawed are the very same people who end up most having a problem with Thing X themselves. This seems to hold true across the spectrum of society.
For example, when someone gets too heated arguing that gambling shouldn’t be legal, because “poor people will spend all their money in casinos”, I know it’s actually them being worried they wouldn’t be able to stay away from the casino. The only way they can control themselves is if the thing is question isn’t made available to them.
Puts a whole new spin on all the ridiculous and overwrought arguments I hear about why gay people shouldn’t be allowed to marry.
I’ll agree. People who are most vehemently against something are those that are most probably doing it. (makes me wonder about Fred Phelps….)
I also find it funny that this is the same guy that voted for 3 of the 4 articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton because of “Moral Legitimacy”