SC governor's whereabouts unknown, even to wife

[chiggerbit]

Wasn't last sunday Father's Day? Don't fathers tend to spend Father's Day with their children? No wonder wifey seemed to be stressing "being a mom".

[Col. Quisp]

Here's what he's saying now:

Just resigned as head of the Republican Gov Assn. Will Sarah step up to the plate?

Been working on his relationship with wife for last months, in a Christian group. He's crying now. Another gay Christian.

First and only time he's been unfaithful. Thru tears.

"I met this person" a little over 8 years ago. "What I did was wrong. End of story." Certain irony..."this person at the time was separated." OK, now he said "she" ....not gay unless he's lying. "when you live in the zone of politics you can't ever let your guard down."

"We develoed a remarkable friendship over those 8 years." I spent the last days crying in Argentina...."

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This just doesn't ring true to me. Whatever he was really doing must have been really terrible, to make up a story about an affair.

[Col. Quisp]

Don't cry for me, Argentina....the truth is I never left you.

What a jerk.

[barracuda]

Press conference, "The bottom line is this: I've been unfaithful to my wife."

[ninakat]

OK, now he said "she" ....not gay unless he's lying.

So many lies lead up to this. Gotta be the truth, right? LMGAO

[Percival]

A Republican politician actually having an affair with a woman? Who would have thunk it?

Edit: Never mind, Fox says he's a Dem. Now it makes sense.







Remember they did the same thing to Mark Foley? Fuckers.[/img]

[Percival]

OK, now he said "she" ....not gay unless he's lying.

So many lies lead up to this. Gotta be the truth, right? LMGAO

I'm not dailykos fan; but on there is another story running on this whole escapade:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...2/-Haggard-ex-

Haggard 'ex-prostitute': Sanford was in Colorado with me

Quote:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Personal trainer and self-labeled ex-prostitute Mike Jones, whose allegations regarding disgraced Baptist megachurch preacher Ted Haggard led to the latter's resignation, says he spent the weekend in a Colorado hotel room with missing South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford. And he has a plane ticket receipt with Sanford's name on it that he says proves it.

A spokeswoman for Sanford's office called the allegation "beyond ludicrous; shameful," adding that Sanford is a "married man who is deeply committed to his wife and children, whom he loves very, very much."

"Governor Sanford would never engage in the incredibly immoral acts Mr. Jacobs has alleged took place," the spokeswoman said. "Governor Sanford believes homosexual acts are a sin and violate the Bible and the sacred institution of traditional marriage, which is why he fully supports South Carolina's Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between only a man and a woman."

The spokeswoman wouldn't say if the governor plans to sue for defamation of character, only that "Mr. Jones should be very, very careful about what he says about Governor Sanford in the future. And we'll be praying for his soul at this clearly troubling time in his life."

[sunny]

Good thing teh gays aren't being allowed to sully the institution of marriage.

[Percival]

Taxpayers fund Sanford affair

Earlier today, Mark Sanford told The State he went to Argentina about 18 months ago on a taxpayer-funded Commerce Department trip.

Sanford, in a brief interview in the nation's busiest airport, said he has been to the city twice before, most recently about a year and half ago during a Commerce Department trip.

So he had an affair with a woman from Argentina, and he recently visited there on the taxpayer dime.

According to Sanford's travel reports, he spent $21,488 on a trip to Brazil, Argentina, and China. However much of that can be allocated to his trip to Argentina, it still means taxpayers likely spent thousands on his affair.

Wow.

In addition, Ben Smith notes two taxpayer-funded trips to Argentina made by Sanford in the mid-1990s, though Sanford indicated he met the woman with whom he had the affair eight years ago.
http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/tkozy/46430/

[Percival]

Emails from the affair:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/70630.html

"This is ground I have never certainly never covered before - so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know," Sanford wrote. "In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul."

[freemason9]

Uh . . . just to clarify some details . . . Sanford's affair with this woman has lasted much longer than one year. He stated that his wife and children discovered the affair some months ago, and his recent trip was for the purpose of ending things.

Bullshit. It doesn't take days to end an affair. It takes minutes. It doesn't even require a personal visit.

There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

OR

He's a closet homo, and this "good friend in Argentina" is a better story than hanging out in Colorado Springs with a male prostitute.

It's one, or it's the other.

Sleeezzzyyy

[barracuda]

Sounds like true love to me, and that is something not to be taken lightly. It can turn your world around, make you break every promise, do things you know are wrong, and leave you broken and helpless. Love like that requires a great deal of you - your wife, your public life, your job, your position of power, they all must be sacrificed before that altar, and that love can render all that as dust in your your mouth when it cannot be fulfilled. Being governor of South Carolina? I pity a man to choose between that and a night of passion in the arms of his greatest love.

Fuck what's right. He should quit, resign now, give his fortune to his wife, and leave on the next boat for Buenos Aires. It's the only respectable thing to do at this point. But he's an American Republican politician. I hardly expect him to act like a man. It surprises me enough that he was human enough to fall in love.

[bks]

"Governor Sanford would never engage in the incredibly immoral acts Mr. Jacobs has alleged took place," the spokeswoman said

No, never, not an upstanding cheat like Sanford.

And no one will call out this repulsive spokeswoman, of course, for saying homosexual sex involves "incredibly immoral acts".

[AJ Hidell]

[empty]

[ninakat]

Has anybody read about how the poetically romantic e-mails were made public? This all stinks to me -- way too obvious and scripted, even worse than a grade B Lifetime movie. But that's just my gut feeling. Sometimes the truth is that simple.... trouble is, I don't have time to research The Official Story to find out what proof there is of all we're now being told. Does proof even get asked for by the media? Ha!

It just sounds very much like the media could be getting set up with fake e-mail love letter, and now we're all left to discuss The Offician Sanford Saga, which is more than likely yet another coverup of something much more nefarious. Or, maybe it's simply a gay love affair, would would be considered an abomination to southern Christian Republicans. If the latter, maybe there was blackmail and the choice was between "Take a Letter, Maria" or being outed.... which could be why Sanford is so willingly giving forth information, confessing, even acknowledging the e-mails. How convenient to have the e-mails so readily available too. I guess Sanford was just really sloppy about covering his tracks? Love does that. But was he truly in love, and is there really a "Maria"? People love a good love story I guess, so this certainly works as a story stopper.

It just all sounds so damned staged, with no believable rationale for the absence except that Sanford was "in love"? The whole thing was such a beautiful affair, right out of a fucking cheap romance novel. I'm not buying it.

Without digging very deep, just to see what McClatchy's article says about the authenticity of the e-mails:

from Percival's link above (emphasis mine):

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford carried on a lively e-mail exchange with his lover in Buenos Aires, praising her "gentle kisses," her tan lines and the "curve of your hips," according to copies of the e-mails given to McClatchy's The State newspaper.

The newspaper posted excerpts on its Web site, after removing the woman's full name and other personal details, including her street address, e-mail address and children's names. It said it was given the e-mails in December, but had been unable to confirm their authenticity until Wednesday.

Sanford's office did not dispute the authenticity of the e-mails on Wednesday.

Yeah, well if he's being blackmailed, what would you expect?

Take all the above with a grain of salt though. These are just my responses, sans proof of anything, taken from a very intuitive, but non-rigorous perspective.

Doesn't anybody else get a funny feeling about this?