Wednesday, June 24, 2009
His staff said he was humping a backpack
Up the Appalachian Trail. Turns out the Governor of South Carolina WAS humping, humping his girlfriend one last time.
After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he'd secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he'd been having an affair. He apologized to his wife and four sons and said he will resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.The brave and stalwart philanderers all have one thing in common. When they are cutting monies for social programs, vetoing efforts to improve schools, health care facilities and programs and otherwise abusing people with too little already, they are the picture of stalwart determination to uphold some vague principle that transcends life itself. But when they are caught with their pecker in the wrong pussy, or worse, they are all weepy apology and groveling insistence that they are not really bad and need your forgiveness. And strangely, the GOP, Party of Family Values and Virtue Beyond Belief, always forgives the worst of them, as long as it wasn't a dead girl or a live boy they were caught with. I say we return to the good old days the GOP is always howling about, the days where if you get caught with your pen in the wrong inkwell, your career is toast. And if it only looks bad, you still better practice twriting your resignation. It has been very harmful to our politics to keep all those old hound dogs around once they got a taste of chicken.
"I've let down a lot of people, that's the bottom line," the 49-year-old governor said at a news conference where he choked up as he ruminated with remarkable frankness on God's law, moral absolutes and following one's heart. His family did not attend.
The woman, who lives in Argentina, has been a "dear, dear friend" for about eight years but, Sanford said, the relationship didn't become romantic until a little over a year ago. He's seen her three times since then, and his wife found out about it five months ago.
He told reporters he spent "the last five days of my life crying in Argentina" and the affair is now over. Sanford, a rumored 2012 presidential candidate, refused to say whether he'll leave office.
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