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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Was it worth it, Governor Sanford?
Was the affair worth destroying your 20-year marriage?
Was it worth hurting your 4 sons?
Was it worth humiliating your wife (read her graceful statement here)?
Was it worth sacrificing the respect of those who look up to you, both in your state and around the country? People who thought you were a role model of good, clean, solid conservativsm?
Was it worth killing your political career?
Thanks to you, a lot of people have been emotionally devastated. Thanks to you, a lot of people have been disillusioned. Thanks to you (and you, too, Senator Ensign), it’s just become that much harder for decent Republicans – of which there are MANY – to lead on the issues of the sanctity of marriage and family values. When leaders of your own party don’t practice what they preach, whether it’s a minority of them who do so or not, it makes the mountain that much harder to climb because the media hypocritically scrutinizes GOP affairs more than they do affairs by Democrats. I don’t like it, but that’s Just The Way It Is.
Regardless of that hypocrisy, affairs bring to light something else that political adulterers don’t want to admit to (besides the fact that they’re sleeping around), and that is that they simply can’t be trusted. The vows of marriage a couple takes when they wed are sacred and binding. If you’re willing to break those vows, break that trust, how can you expect your constituency to believe you won’t do the same thing to them?
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The questions of the day: Should he resign? Or will he be impeached?
Updated with additional thoughts – 7:38 pm: How could anyone DO this to someone they claimed to love? What makes people think they can do things like this and get away with them? Sanford had to know of the increased scrutiny put on him because of his rumored presidential ambitions, so his attitude apparently was one we’re all too familiar with from today’s politicos – that they are “above” it all and will “never” get caught.
I’m not married, but even if I was I coudn’t even consider having an affair. The sheer guilt alone would eat me alive. That’s just not who I am, not how I was raised – and no, the “pressures” of being a politician on the road all the time, if I were one, would not be a valid excuse.
I just don’t get it. And you know what? I don’t think I really want to.
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Too bad. I feel bad for his wife, more than anyone else. I’m glad she kicked his a$$ out.
What a stupid, stupid, stupid, man he is.
Buh-bye, Governor and good riddance.
What an incredible woman. For her to realize that her personal diginity is worth more than these political gold diggers who like to stand by their man. Althought I do feel horrible for her for his foolish behavior. Atleast she had the strength to throw his butt out. – Lorica
I don’t think she is humiliated or should feel so. A man that small (or emotionally disturbed) hasn’t the power to humiliate, and we shouldn’t give it to him.
The irony of all this is that if he was a Democrat the press would be standing up for him or covering it up, and he would continue to be re-elected until the cows come home. Not having any standards apparently means there’s never any consequences.
But every single conservative and Republican I know of thinks he’s scum and should go for damaging the party. Republicans should know the media and Dems will use any excuse to paint them as hypocrites, so by all means give them ammunition and help sabotage the party further. Idiot.
I fail to understand what is so difficult about monogamy and faithfulness. Even in my first marriage, I never cheated even when I knew it was all over but the shouting, I waited until I was divorced before I started hunting (although I was the only one of us who did).
Besides, if I ever cheated on my current lovely bride, I’d better hope my mistress had a thing for eunuchs.
No excuses, hang him in the morning, but a partial explanation for its seeming prevalence in some circles:
1. Whether by genetics or socialization, men and women are different.
2. Though typically thought of in different contexts, power really does corrupt. It tends to corrupt all of one’s values, not just a select few.
3. Power is an aphrodisiac. It both stimulates and attracts.
4. Lust is an obscurant. It makes the participant believe he or she is invisible at the same time it makes the rest of the world invisible too.
Along that line, I remember a very famous, instantly recognizable gentleman who generally took his secretary (and paramour) to lunch at the club on Tuesdays. They’d always get there at 11:15, before anyone else, but then eat through the hour. Once a staffer asked about the arrangement and the guy explained that after the third martini they were both invisible, keeping their secret safe.
Sadly, he believed it. Sadly, his wife accepted it.
Hell, if he were a Democrat, this would be a resume enhancement.
It’s been said that hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. That’s true, and it’s why the charge is so devastating.
The sad part is that liberals, by their nature, can’t be hypocrites. Like Sev says, you can’t be a hypocrite if you have no standards to begin with, and the only standard you’ll find on the left is that grabbing as much power as possible is good. And that’s one standard they never betray.
He should do the honorable thing and resign, but, I think impeachment would be too much. He did not actually break any laws.
My question is was he down in Argentina STILL screwing this women? Or was he breaking it off? I heard she’s married with children also. Selfish sins.
The impeachable offense is not the affair, but the fact that he disappeared for 5 days without anyone knowing where he was at, how to reach him, and who would have been in command had something happened.
“Was it worth killing your political career?”
Like Newt Gingrich? I ask that as a forty-year Republican.
Think about it, though, John: Do you think that Newt will ever be able to run for President and make it past the primaries?
Why resign if he can do the job? The governor of SC has less power than most state governors as displayed by his last defeat by the SC Supreme court regarding the stimulus money. What state laws did he violate to envoke articles of impeachment? The man is in enough trouble with his family who have known of the affair for as least five months. It is up to the S.C. citizens regarding his political career, his family regarding his paternal status, and his God regarding his personal status.
By leaving the country (possibly just by leaving the state) and not going through a chain of command change apparently broke S.C. law and would be an impeachable offense.
He should also be made to wear a whore’s outfit because that’s what he was (is?). Resignation alone would be too easy.
But still and all, was he that much worse than a presidential candidate who prostituted himself for votes, knowing that once in power the only promises he’d keep are the ones that consolidated his power? And trust? A man that whores his supposed love of country, then turns around and apologizes so much for it it’s obvious he hates America can’t be trusted just on that basis alone.
He should resign immediately and disappear from public life for a while.
As I said before, I expect this from politicians, it’s unfortunate that fidelity seems to be the exception and not the rule for people in power. Still, I’m more concerned about his lapse in leaving state government for a week than about his affair. I still consider it none of my business.
I do find it interesting that he flew all the way to Argentina…
Affairs seems so troublesome anyway. (In addition to the infliction of lifelong family trauma) this person has to spend all of their time leading a double-life, then trying to cover up that double life. Now you’ve got to throw a 12 hour flight in too?
No thank you. Beer and a couch please.
I live in SC. Yes, he is a skunk, and his wife certainly showed more spunk in kicking him out than most political wives.
From what I can see, he’s one of the few men who cheated who seems to be “in love”. As such, he is not thinking clearly, and that would explain a lot of his recent behavior.
I just wish he would quit, and deal with his situation off-stage. His career is obviously over – only a Democrat could resusitate a dead career at this point.
Let’s face it – most politicians are narcissistic egomaniacs. That they engage in entitled behaviors stems from that.