Governor Sanford, the bottom of things.....

What's to respect? He didn't "step up to the plate" he was SHOVED up to the plate after being MIA for nearly a week. It's sad that he had an affair to begin with but that should have been a private thing between him and his wife but he MADE it public by the way he handled himself, leaving the country without letting anyone know where he was.
Annie

Well, for one thing, Annie, he didn't let it get so far out of hand that he got impeached over it! He didn't lie under oath like BJ Clinton did. I guess Rose can respect that part of it.

Kenny, he didn't "step up to the plate", he left his state with NO leader and no one else with the power to make decisions, he cheated on his wife, and then he tried to sneak back into the country. He also didn't resign, if he did that I would say that he was stepping up to the plate. If he didn't leave his state with no one else in charge than it would only between him and his wife, but this isn't the case. I am surprised that you of all people would be so open to him serving out his term as govenor. If this was a democrate would you be so open?

Being a SC resident, I feel that he should resign. Not for his affair, but for the way he handled it. He should have left the Lt Govenor in charge, someone should have known about his plans. He could have just told them he was going out of the country to get a break. What happens between him and his wife is there affair, I do not agree with it and feel that it is wrong. It seems to be the normal for politicians to have affairs. If he would have left the state in someones hand and knowledge of his return date, none of this would have happened and noone would have known about his affair.

Lately his record has been the pits to say the least. I made the comment yesterday before all this came out about his affair, that he has dug his political grave. I feel that the state will be asking for his resignation. As far as his run for president in 2012, I think he messed that up when he refused to take the stimulus money from the federal government and had to have a court order him to take it, and that was just a few weeks ago. I think he will have to go back to real estate development.

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"He's obviously been traveling out of the country to be with this woman so how many trips has he taken and has anyone else been aware of these trips?"

From what I understand, and I could be wrong, but his wife has known about the afair for 6 mos. and she knew where he was. Now as for being AWOL from his job ..... that's another story. If I didn't show up for my work for three days and I didn't notify anyone I would just as well be abandoning my job. I'd be fired for it.

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From the news this evening, he has gone to meet her 3 times, but has known her for 8 years. They have been involved for about a year. His wife did not know that he went to Argentina, just that he took off. They did seperate about 2 weeks ago, and were planning on trying to work things out, but after this, she may be reconsidering taking him back.

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Rose, "the people" did NOT call for Clinton's impeachment or resignation! You said yourself you weren't into politics back then so obviously you don't know what went on then. The majority of the American people stood behind their President. That's NOT to say they condoned his infidelity but they certainly didn't think he should be removed from the office in which he was doing a pretty darn good job because of it. Of course there WERE those who were out for blood and ironically among them were the two most recent GOP philanderers, Mark Sanford and John Ensign along with veteran cheaters Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig and Mark Foley.

Sanford most certainly did lie for about a year and his wife supposedly did NOT know he'd gone to Argentina to see his lover. If you want to believe he'd have confessed if he hadn't been caught at the airport and if he hadn't been warned of the emails a South Carolina newspaper had that had been passed between him and his "beloved", be my guest.
Annie

They have four fairly young children, don't they? I say they should go to counseling and try to work it out if that's possible.

They do have 4 sons, and this must be heart breaking to them. Especially for their dad to take off over Father's Day. I have 2 boys and Sunday was a big day for them. Wanting to do everything with dad. This type of situtation is always hard on kids.

I heard today that the democrats where having a fund raiser in Charleston this evening. Of course, this was all planned before all this came out. I was talking to someone that will be there, and he said the hop topic will be Sanford. I am curious to see what will come out tomorrow.

well they tried to get a bill through in the last session of the state house to recall him. But it got stuck in sub-committee. They wanted to recall him over not taking the stimulus "bail out" money. You can bet they are going to jump on this big time and use it to run him out of office. And Sanford can only blame himself. He handed them the reason on a silver platter. He abondoned his state without giving the Lt Gov. the power to take care of things while he was gone. That is what they get him for.

Well I agree his actions are horrible and he will probly have to step down...lets not blow it out of portion. How exactly were we in danger? He was gone for a few days. Sure he left the country which was stupid but if something major would have come up we do have a Lt. Gov and other elected officials that could have handled things til he got back. The state house is out of session right now and there is really not much going on here in the state right now.
The state does not stand still or do the people who live here just because the Gov. goes on vacation.

Lil, you're absolutely right that "The state does not stand still or do the people who live here just because the Gov. goes on vacation" but from what I've heard on the news if there had been a disaster in your state only the governor could declare it as such unless he'd given the Lt. Governor the authority or at least could be reached. I think when you add up his hypocrisy because of the way he was one of the most vocal critics of President Clinton during the Monica scandal, the fact that he abandoned his responsibilities and the fact that he apparently took some of his trips to see his lover using taxpayer funds while trying to keep the unemployed from getting stimulus funds all together the sum is the end of his political career.
Annie