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  • Sanford...WTHeck??

    I personally don't think this even belongs in "Debates," but since it is about a politican, I figured better safe than sorry.

    OK, as we all know, this SC Gov (Rep) admitted last week to having an affair with some woman in Argentina. And his wife kicked him out (good for her, BTW, given that he refused to stop seeing his mistress). And he may be in legal trouble (rather than merely ethical and marital trouble), if he used state funds for travel to meet up with his mistress.

    Now, today, he's admitted to having--not affairs ("sexual intercourse," I suppose?)--but inappropriate "crossing of lines." Whatever that means. Is that making out with women not your wife? Third base? Non-physical "affairs of the heart"? Actually, I don't care what that means. I am not sure why he shared all of this with us.

    But, what was appalling was that, when he described his affair with girl-from-Argentina, he called her his "soul mate" and referred to the matter as a genuine "love affair." And added that, despite this, he wants to rebuild his marriage.

    OMWord. Please resign and go away. You are a horrible person. NOT for falling in love with another woman; not for having an affair with her (although these certainly aren't redeeming qualities). You are a horrible person for humiliating your wife this way. SHUT UP. No one cares that you found the love of your life outside your marriage. It excuses nothing about your behavior. What we care about is how you treat the people whose trust you are supposed to value most. If you treat your family's trust as disposable based on whether you happen to be in love with your wife that day, just think of what you could do to that of the mere voters, whose breasts and hearts you are not "crying out for." (His emails were sophomorically awful, BTW. Like what Hallmark would do if they made porn greeting cards.)

    Pleas resign. Go camping with John Edward and Eliot Spitzer and see if you all can find something to talk about. Heck, make it a huge boys' night out: don't forget Larry Craig, David Vitter, Governor Greavy, Bill Clinton...
    Last edited by GrayMatterWife; 06-30-2009, 03:25 PM. Reason: Edit

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    Originally posted by GrayMatterWife View Post

    Pleas resign. Go camping with John Edward and Eliot Spitzer and see if you all can find something to talk about.

    Maybe they can be shipped off to their own private island.

    I think the way his wife has handled this is very admirable.

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    • #3
      It's just getting more and more pathetic, isn't it?

      Jenny Sanford is a flippin' rock star though and I hope that some day she finds a guy she deserves because clearly, he ain't it.

      Jenn

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DCJenn View Post
        It's just getting more and more pathetic, isn't it?

        Jenny Sanford is a flippin' rock star though and I hope that some day she finds a guy she deserves because clearly, he ain't it.

        Jenn
        100% with you on that. She ROCKS. That's EXACTLY what so many of us were hoping to see. None of this "stand by your man in the face of your personal humiliation" crap. None of this "it's a vast right-wing conspiracy" distraction. None of this suit-wearing, scarf-bearing, tear-jerking lecturn sidekick routine. Go Jenny!!

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        • #5
          He just needs to STOP TALKING, put his head down, and do his job, if he isn't going to resign. The emails that have been leaked are beyond embarrassing. There is nothing he can say at this point that will make anything better.

          It has been refreshing to see his wife respond as she has. I hope I would respond with as much dignity and grace if I were in the same circumstances.
          Wife of an OB/Gyn, mom to three boys, middle school choir teacher.

          "I don't know when Dad will be home."

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          • #6
            Originally posted by mommax3 View Post

            it has been refreshing to see his wife respond as she has. I hope i would respond with as much dignity and grace if i were in the same circumstances.
            ita.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by mommax3 View Post
              He just needs to STOP TALKING, put his head down, and do his job, if he isn't going to resign. The emails that have been leaked are beyond embarrassing. There is nothing he can say at this point that will make anything better.
              Totally agree. I cannot for the life of me figure out why he keeps talking about this.

              If he is forced to resign, it should be because he vanished from the state without informing those who would have been in charge had something unthinkable happened. The voters can handle the "affair".
              Julia - legislative process lover and general government nerd, married to a PICU & Medical Ethics attending, raising a toddler son and expecting a baby daughter Oct '16.

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              • #8
                Banish him to a deserted island with our wonderful former governor Jim McGreevey!
                Luanne
                wife, mother, nurse practitioner

                "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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                • #9
                  I keep thinking he's had a psychotic break or something. There's no plan or rhyme or reason to these press conferences and "confessions".

                  I agree - if he won't resign, shut up and work. If he gets kicked out, so be it -- otherwise I'm sure the voters will dump him.

                  His wife is awesome.

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                  • #10
                    She kicked him out?? Finally a women who stands up and doesn't just smile and nod, as her husband admits his affair. GOOD FOR HER!!!
                    Brandi
                    Wife to PGY3 Rads also proud mother of three spoiled dogs!! Some days it is hectic, but I wouldn't trade this for anything.




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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jane View Post
                      I keep thinking he's had a psychotic break or something. There's no plan or rhyme or reason to these press conferences and "confessions".
                      That's what I'm thinking. Everytime he opens his mouth, it sounds like he is having a nervous breakdown (is that phrase even used anymore?). He's losing it.
                      Wife of Ophthalmologist and Mom to my daughter and two boys.

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                      • #12
                        I had such hopes for this guy, and what an asshat he's turned out to be.
                        I haven't read the emails yet and it sounds like I don't want to. His wife is a class act. I would probably go for public castration.

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                        • #13
                          Personal sadness in that he's a Darden grad.

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                          • #14
                            Chris- the emails are horrifying. I mean they made me squirm with the intimacy. and honestly, they added nothing to the debate except to make them now accessible to his kids some day and I think that's really irresponsible of the SC newspaper. They didn't need to release them. The damage was already done.

                            Jenn

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                            • #15
                              I didn't see / read e-mails. Where are they?

                              Seems like totally repressed dude. Did he go off leash with the e-mails?

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