Mark Sanford - What Can He Do NOW?

I didn't read the whole email correspondence

I hear ya! Maybe this is all part of the stimulus package to help the sale of nausea remedies and barf bags!
Annie

Oh my, shockingly we agree! LOL

Double shockingly from me, too! The sad part is apparently Jenny is an heiress and she helped launch his career from what I've recently read. In other words, the scumbag used her! In her defense, piasabird, judgment sometimes has little to do with who one falls in love with. Since she seems to be an intelligent woman I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume there was something there at one time. Granted, I have no idea WHAT and I think it's long gone now but there was something there LONG ago.
Annie

Ladies! Please! What did you think? That I would blindly try to defend him because he's a Republican and I am a Republican? I mean, there is no way I can defend this person. He is just so wrong.

He says this other woman is his "soul mate" and he will "try" to fall back in love with his wife? Come on! If I hear any more about this sorry a**ed man I think I might throw up!

Why don't some people know when to shut up?!!

I think we've reached a consensus that we all want to throw up when we hear or see him! They just said on the news that Jenny has released a statement saying she's "willing to forgive him". Why, Jenny, WHY???
Annie

Those were the words that clinched it for me as well. I'm going to start a discussion about who should star in the movie. "As the Governor Turns" might be a good title.
Annie

You know, I've been watching this story as it's developed and I keep asking myself these questions - WHAT was it about him to make people vote for him to begin with? HOW could he have been considered a Presidential contender? I really don't see any ";charisma" there which leads to another question - what did either Jenny or Maria, not to mention the other women he "crossed the line" with without crossing "the ultimate line" ever see in him to being with???
Annie

"How friggin' noble of him" indeed! I'd say he's proven himself to be even lower than the typical scumbag politician. At least most of them try to show some respect and remorse towards their wives when they speak publicly or to the media. This a-hole seems to feel that he was somehow entitled to this "tragic love story".
Annie

I just hope they find out he has been financing his love affair with taxpayer's money and kick his butt out of office in disgrace,

"... ya fukked up big time."
That he did, in more ways than one!
Annie

"State Law Enforcement Division chief Reggie Lloyd said investigators reviewed records of two trips to Argentina and three to New York City...Mr. Lloyd said his investigation showed that the New York and Argentina trips, including the 2008 Buenos Aires leg, were for legitimate state business or paid for on Mr. Sanford's personal credit card. State officials, including the governor, are entitled to free time even on state-sponsored trips, Mr. Lloyd said."

He didn't see his mistress at the taxpayers' expense. So, the only reason for him to resign is that he cheated on his wife. If that makes a politician unsuited to public office, we have a lot more people to fire.

"So, the only reason for him to resign is that he cheated on his wife."
There's that TEENSY little matter of job abandonment...
Annie

Good point, Spall, but I have a feeling the people of South Carolina may be less forgiving than those of D.C. Of course, he could always relocate...I'll chip in for a one-way ticket to Argentina for him.
Annie

Yep, it sure does appear that South Carolina wants him out! I agree about his marriage as well. How can a husband have an affair and then agree to counseling and then at that counseling ask his wife if he can go see his mistress? Then, AFTER the wife adamantly says "NO WAY!" he does it ANYWAY? Lastly, he tells the whole world that his mistress is his soul mate, that he still loves her but that he's "trying to fall back in love with his wife". I'd tell him not to bother.
Annie

I guess you got me, Rollo1! We don't have the right to know any of the personal details of anyone's life other than our own and that applies to politicians as well as to our next door neighbors. However, while Sanford was pretty much forced to confess to his infidelity since the emails were already about to be published the further details that he gave voluntarily are things none of us could have possible known without him telling us. It was wrong for the personal emails between Sanford and Maria to have been hacked into and then made public but Sanford didn't have to tell the world that Maria is his soul mate or that he'd crossed the line with other women, at least not YET. He sure didn't have to say he's trying to fall back in love with his wife. At least for now nobody can hack into our private thoughts!
Annie

Does Sanford really need to tell us all these details? Probably not. If he waits long enough, the news media will tell us after they've spent some time digging around and interviewing people, hacking his IM accounts, etc. Then they certainly would know about other women with whom he had crossed the line and well, so would we.

I think we'd know all this eventually anyway. Now that it's all been said, it just prevents it coming out one salacious headline at a time.

A book deal! Jeez. No shame at all!

It's a crying shame we have no real way of weeding these suckers out before they do this kind of thing.

The day the logical world ended was the day popularity promoted power.

I thought I heard somebody mention a book deal on TV last night but I didn't know if they were serious or not. I've been wondering who will play him in the movie. Any suggestions?

Lil, I've been really interested in what you have to say about this since I think you're the only one here I know from S.C. and I realize the rest of us never really get the accurate idea of what is going on somewhere else. You know what I mean, when people go on TV you'll see someone who is loyal to Sanford swearing the people of South Carolina will stand by him because he's been a good governor, etc. then someone who never liked him to begin with will come on and say everyone wants him to go. The political pundits don't usually speak for the average people in any given state or region, I know that from experience with all the talk about my state during the Presidential campaign.

I've got a question just for you, Lil; did anyone have any clue Sanford was like this? I mean, I know he'd been mentioned as a possible contender for the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination and he's been called one of the party's up and coming "stars". Was he that good an actor or was it known closer to home that he wasn't the idealist he seemed to try to appear to be?
Annie

The book is about fiscal conservatism (he recently went to court to try to avoid having the state take stimulus funds) and it's called "Within Our Means". It's not the story of his affair... sorry.

no annie. Before this incident Sanford was VERY popular and the majority of people in the state liked him. Even the people that were not happy about him rejecting the stimulus money did not think he would EVER do something like this. This was a HUGE shock to all of us.
The news said this morning that a completely audit has been finished on his spending of state money and he did not illegal spend any o fit.which is good. But he still needs to go. His wife may be willing to forgive him "for the sake of the children" but the people of this state are not willing forgive or forget that he abandoned this state, left the country and left NO ONE in charge. The general population is still screaming for him to resign.

Rollo1- Sanford is a good fiscal conservative so a book by him on that subject would not be a bad thing. He has a good grasp on fiscal responsibility. I would be interested in seeing that book.