DISQUS

mikeyDe · 5 months ago

I'm rethinking my position against the Defense of Marriage Act. We should ban opposite-sex marriage until the Republicans figure out how it works. Until then, it's a threat to my would-be, same-sex marriage.

therepguy · 5 months ago

Mikey that a great idea... maybe we should dump the ML for a clearler solution... a CU for one and all!

TrueBleuCA · 5 months ago

Protect my California same-sex marriage from these hypocritical self-righteous, right wing nutjob politicians. Get your own house in order and keep your soiled hands off my marriage.

Mark Sanford needs to resign now. And if he doesn't resign, let's see if the South Carolina legislature will live up to their end of responsibility by impeaching this self-righteous, faux Christian, wife cheating low-life!

BWL · 5 months ago

Goddamn gays ruin another sacred marriage!

jpjones · 5 months ago

Laughing my ass off!!!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

so... it WAS a guy he hooked up with in Argentina then?

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

A friend used to tell me, "if you want to get a date, stand next to an ugly, older person. You'll look better by comparison". I think that could be restated to say, "if you want to feel good about yourself, stand next to a Republican. You'll feel clean, moral, and righteous by comparison".

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

I like that! tell your friend I'm borrowing it :-)

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

Give him a drink and he'll spew more pithy sayings....

dacnova · 5 months ago

When the GOP hypocrites start talking about preserving marriage, our automatic response needs to be along the lines of "Why aren't you protecting your own?"

Milli · 5 months ago

Give him a break. So his penis accidentally fell into her vagina. Could happen to anyone.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

well... yeah! I mean, that's what happened to larry craig ALL the time in the mens room... the floors are slippery, kept falling and just reaching out to grab something to balance himself... it just happened to be a penis.

therepguy · 5 months ago

After the last 8 years... Republican don't get breaks!

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Yea, but to continue to fall into it all year? This man is really unlucky. ;-)

doandme · 5 months ago

I have to live in this shithole state and listen to the ASSHOLE all the time. His wife should beat him to death with a yankee slugger. What a piece of shit to leave on fathers day weekend to go see the other hole he so enjoys. Let him rot and can I say....IMPEACH his redneck ass

SCLiberal · 5 months ago

As another trapped in this state, I totally agree.

judybrowni · 5 months ago

Favorite line:
"I saw her three times during the, the whole sparking thang."

Woo, he blew off governance of a state, his marriage, and his family on Father's Day, for three bouts, at best, of intercourse.

But gays aren't responsible enough to marry.

JohnVisser · 5 months ago

Appartently I have misunderstood the definition of "traditional marriage" - I thought they meant one man and one woman. But alas, it's one man and TWO women. Wait, isn't that polygamy. Dammit I'm confused. Will somebody please explain to me what exactly the right wing is saying?

PattyP · 5 months ago

Some definitions include a box turtle.

stldem · 5 months ago

Marriage is sacred and must only be between a man and a woman. Right! Ha!

I understand that people make mistakes and don't always behave in a moral way. But, what I DO resent is that Republicans berate any one not adhering to rigid "Christian Values", when they are as guilty as anyone for behaving inappropriately. They just have the convenient fallback response that because they are christian they will be forgiven. Disgusting.

mikeyDe · 5 months ago

"Marriage is sacred and must only be between a man and a woman."

Marriage is sacred and must only be between a man and a woman and his Bible study group.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

They are worse. We are'nt going around pontificating what marriage should be or not be.

spalin · 5 months ago

This is one of the reasons i dont allow Tod on overnight trips!

catty · 5 months ago

John every tome a GOPer does wrong.Faux news runs the story with a( D)beside his name.When will this be exposed?
They were taking $5.00 bets on Dailykos,to see how long before they did it and a lot of people won.Kos has a Diary up
on this.

Jophus · 5 months ago

Shut up! Do they really do that? Do you have a link to videos?

tlsintx · 5 months ago

marriage needs protection alright...
f-ing hets are screwing marriage to hell!

ps. nice tan, mark. boehner's jealous.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

how fast would GOPers run from this law? Federal legislation making ALL states community property states.

you screw your wife over? fine, she gets half.

tlsintx · 5 months ago

they'd run so fast their comb-overs would be flying five feet behind em!

jpjones · 5 months ago

Only in a no-fault divorce. Otherwise, they'd just blame the gays.

jpjones · 5 months ago

Mark Sanford. John Ensign. David Vitter. Larry Craig. Newt Gingrich. John McCain. Robert Livingston. Henry Hyde. ENOUGH ALREADY with all the "sanctity of marriage" bullshit!!!!!

GoBlue · 5 months ago

Like shooting fish in a barrel!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

makes you want to get on the PA system at the next GOP convention... "Senator [muffled intelligeble name], your mistress is outside and refuses to leave unless she talks to you."

how many faces would turn ghost white?

jpjones · 5 months ago

Careful - you'll start a stampede and innocent convention hall employees could get killed.

Blueflash · 5 months ago

Another "family values" Repub hypocrite bites the dust. How's that sacred hetero marriage of yours going now, Governor?

Zorba · 5 months ago

You know, two in one week is a hoot (except for their wives and children). It's not like the Democrats are all as pure as the driven snow (Eliot, is that you?), but they don't generally very volubly clothe themsleves in the Family-Values-Sanctity-of-One-Man-One-Woman-Marriage cloak. What utter hypocrisy. I'm glad that Mrs. Sanford didn't "stand by" him during the public "confession" (unlike so many of the wronged wives) and I hope she divorces the son of a bitch.

PattyP · 5 months ago

Spitzer at least had the decency to immediately resign. He shouldn't have.

Zorba · 5 months ago

Ensign hasn't resigned. "Diaper Dave" Vitter didn't resign. "Toe Tapping Larry" Craig didn't resign (although he didn't stand for re-election). Spitzer was better than any of them, by far. Not that I condone what he did, either- bad enough to break your marriage vows. but consorting with prostitutes (even "high end" ones) leads to increased exposure to STD's, which puts his wife at risk.

okojo · 5 months ago

Spitzer had to resign. He was involved in a Federal Investigation, with wiretaps of him ordering call girls besides records of payments. He couldn't manage as Governor of New York, with the Post and Daily News making his life completely miserable, and having the Republicans scoring political points. Spitzer was very lucky he wasn't indicted or lose his law license for his actions.

Senator Craig should had resigned, or at least been kicked out or censured by the Senate. Vitter was just being a creep. The difference between Vitter and Spitzer was the paper trail. Vitter could had easily been indicted if there were better records of his connection to the call girl ring besides his phone number with the madam.

Ensign may have to resign if these potential lawsuits against him by the Hamptons are very damaging. Firing an employee or making them leave because the ending of an affair is not good.

Zorba · 5 months ago

Excellent points all, Okojo.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

I have the feeling their sex life ended a long time ago.

okojo · 5 months ago

Spitzer did the right thing by resigning, mainly he had to fight the potential criminal charges against him and resigning put the spotlight off his family. If he continued to be governor, it would had been murder for his family.

It was probably good that his call girl history came out, because he was a potential candidate for US Attorney General whether Clinton or Obama became President.

It would had been a nightmare for Spitzer to try to govern with criminal indictments hanging over him, The Feds had him over a barrel, with the wiretaps and money trail.

KerrynowCampau · 5 months ago

Who was the other one this week?

HereinDC · 5 months ago

Ensign from Nevada

KerrynowCampau · 5 months ago

I don't know how I missed that! It is becoming such a common news story (right wing figure found with man/woman/child/goat...) I don't pay too much attention.

Zorba · 5 months ago

Yes, it was Ensign. Although technically, it's been a week and a day. ;-)

hrh · 5 months ago

Yet another holier-than-thou exposed for what he is. (Is there a twelve-step Hypocrites Anonymous program?)

This is all just too, too delicious!

CARIBOU & JINDALOO in
TWO THOUSAND ONE TWO

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

now for the ultimate ick factor...


the other woman was Liddy Dole.

joking of course... it was Michelle Bachman, the second car was because she was planning on driving to Argentina.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

with Depends and duct tape.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

LOL! actually... that DOES sound like something Bachman would do, doesn't it?

jpjones · 5 months ago

Bachman would cut his dick off and throw it in the ocean.

tlsintx · 5 months ago

winger GOPers are so very human, they should be forgiven when they mess up their sanctified marriages, especially after those brave, brave on the air apologies..sniff sniff.

gays aren't human enough to even marry in the first place.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

exactly...

sandiegopete · 5 months ago

Stewart skewered Sanford last night when it was thought that the gov went for a walk in the woods, tonight's show is basically writing itself.

can we just end the "family values" bullsh*t hypocracy right now? seriously, there is no such thing. both sides--D and R and fallible human beings who end up catering to their desires. no more of this "holier than thou" garbage, especially from the R's

and to go throw this whole "hiking" charade for a piece of tail. at least spitzer had the cojones to go to a pro--a pro will keep their damn mouth shut, that's why you pay them (to paraphrase Sheen, C.)

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Yea, and the immediate media reaction was the man should get a measure of forgiveness for coming clean on national teevee! No shit! AFTER GETTING CAUGHT IN A DAMNED LIE ABOUT THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL?!!? That is called "coming clean?" !!! The media need to have their butts kicked, and THIS reaction was on MSNBC. I'm sure at FOX NEWS they are probably asking their viewers to send Sanford flowers and candy.

davidkingofall · 5 months ago

No, at Fox News their reaction was to label Sanford as a Democrat.

Jophus · 5 months ago

Did they really do this? Do you have a link to video?

TrueBleuCA · 5 months ago

Can I sue? I'm not sure I can ever face hiking the Appalachia Trail again. Poor bears.

JamesR · 5 months ago

Could it be that someone told Rush he was going to go to Argentina for some tail and do some backpacking, and was mis-heard?

Y'know how Rush likes to talk -

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

I love Bill Clinton but have to bring up "I did not have sex with that woman" to explain why people give politicians a lot of credit for telling the truth when busted for their misdeeds.

sdv · 5 months ago

Legally, he did not have sex with that woman.

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

exactly, which is why the answer was so weaselly

okojo · 5 months ago

Spitzer was just as reckless as Sanford. He was doing this while doing some big political battles with Wall Street. This is just about guys who feel they are kind of invulnerable, and very arrogant. Governor Sanford should had filed for divorce, and then go down to Buenos Aires for his week long shag session, instead of humiliating his family. He should had the dignity of telling his wife his marriage is over in private months in advance rather disclosing it after being caught with his pants down.

Indigo · 5 months ago

I'm going to go throw up now.

TrueBleuCA · 5 months ago

Where is the ticket? When did you book your trip. If it was in advance of telling his staff he was going hiking, then he lied to them and needs to resign immediately!

And if he doesn't resign, let's see if the South Carolina legislature will live up to their end of responsibility by impeaching this self-righteous, faux Christian, wife cheating low-life!

JayBe · 5 months ago

I agree. Somebody has to investigate this. Of course Fox will defend him and chastise any journo who starts asking legit questions like 'when did you by the ticket?' or 'Who footed the bill?'.

TrueBleuCA · 5 months ago

He is frightened shitless! Something else is gonna drop!

terrya · 5 months ago

Naturally, of course, he's one of those homophobic "preserving the sanctity of marriage" hypocrites. Hell, that goes without saying.

FunMe · 5 months ago

You know, maybe this an opportunity for the marriage equality to use these ADULTERERS who talk about "sanctity of marriage" yet they are being hypocritical with the way they conduct their own marriage.

EVERYONE who defends marriage between a man and woman yet does not live to that should be exposed as frauds.

Chris From Maine · 5 months ago

well its a woman.. he just said "she".

why isnt he resigning as Governor?

SCLiberal · 5 months ago

That's what this person in SC wants to know.

Chris From Maine · 5 months ago

he was one of the right wing's "great white hopes" for 2012 to beat Obama.

so much for that. hes toast.

judybrowni · 5 months ago

But no doubt he'll reinvent himself as a well-paid lobbyist or get wingnut welfare from a Conservative thinktank, or some such.

And the MSM will revive the creepy governor as a talking head for "balance."

therepguy · 5 months ago

What with these republican... do they have a built in need to self-destruct?

therepguy · 5 months ago

The next question is why in SC is the Lt. Goverment not married?

HereinDC · 5 months ago

Go to the wiki page of Lt Bauer.

Lt Gov. Bauer was born in Charleston on March 20, 1969. He is the son of William R. Bauer and Saundrea Jill Bauer, and is a graduate of both Irmo High School and the University of South Carolina, where he was a Varsity Male Cheerleader and a member of the Rho-Omega chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

Does anybody else think what I'm thinking?

IamSmartypants · 5 months ago

Handsome, single, successful...

Where do I apply to be the second lady of South Carolina?

SCLiberal · 5 months ago

W was a cheerleader also...

TrappedinaRedState · 5 months ago

Don't even think about it - we don't want him!

JamesR · 5 months ago

Charlie Crist's wife was out of beards?

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 5 months ago

My gaydar instantly went off like a car alarm sounding at 3AM, waking up the whole damn neighborhood.

pluky · 5 months ago

He was a Teke?!? Say no more, the meter has pegged.

JamesR · 5 months ago

He didn't want the Governor hitting on his wife?

SCLiberal · 5 months ago

Sanford on the issues:
Sanford said marriage should be defined as one man and one woman.
Sanford voted yes on an amendment banning adoptions in District of Columbia by gays or other individuals who are not related by blood or marriage.
He strongly favors prayer in public schools.
He believes drug use is immoral
In short: HYPOCRITE

DutchButch · 5 months ago

Sanford said marriage should be defined as one man and one woman and one mistress.

terrya · 5 months ago

It is just SO predictable. Anytime one of these ultra right-wing Republicans cheat on their wives, they're ALWAYS some damn homophobe who wants to "preserve the sanctity of marriage". Hell, you can practically set your watch by them.

HelenRainier · 5 months ago

Just roaring laughing -- STILL!

You've gotta love it -- Ensign, now Sanford. How many more "family values We Must Be Protect Marriage" of these buffons do we have to tolerate yet before these IDIOT REPUBLICONS GET IT?

ROFLMAO!

GoBlue · 5 months ago

Too bad that Gingrich, McCain and Giuliani were not the last three standing in the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008. Then we could have pointed out that between them, the three finalists had had a total of eight wives.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

you forgot the mistresses (some of which turned out to be wives after the ailing first wife died--McCain, Gingrich). For anti-welfare types, these corrupt, amoral, selfish and sociopathic idiots sure have a 'gimme' point of view.

jpjones · 5 months ago

McCain and Gingrich didn't wait for the ailing wives to die - they just dumped them and left them to fend for themselves.

HelenRainier · 5 months ago

I get your point -- but this is funnier -- the pious preachers of morality and ethics just get more outrageous and now they're really going all to HELL!

I am STILL LAUGHING about this -- and it's now been over an hour ago since I first heard about it.

HereinDC · 5 months ago

There is STILL something missing from this story.

I can't put my finger on it....but there is something just not right.

There is either other kids envolved.....

something....

This is way beyond just an extramartial affair...

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

I get that same feeling. It was all "where in the world is Mark Sanford"...wife couldn't care less...hiking..then on to something exotic...escaping the humiliation of losing a court case on rejecting stimulus money... and now it's all laissez-faire turning into laissez-affair. *gag*

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Perhaps, the "mistress" is an "he/she." Just a thought, how much worse could it get?!

FunMe · 5 months ago

Oh my gosh, this is so funny.

Why does this not surprise me.

I just hope people in this country wake up to the fact that repulicons are LIARS and they need to get rid of them.

mamazboy · 5 months ago

Ha-ha. Love the endlessly imploding hypocrites of the GOP.

RobertSanDimas · 5 months ago

I'm an atheist. However, this has been a bountiful week: two Repuke sinners! Maybe S(H)e is on our side! If there's a third, I may have to reconsider.

samiinh · 5 months ago

Wish it would be pretty boy Romney. Wonder how many plural wives he really has.

JamesR · 5 months ago

Or perhaps it's time to thank the absence of God for all the Godlessness. ?

If S(H)e exists S(H)e has a fine sense of humo(u)r!

caphillprof · 5 months ago

There are no family values in the Republican Party. If you vote Republican, you are anti-family. It's that simple.

monie · 5 months ago

Classic!

Are we sure it was a woman?

DutchButch · 5 months ago

"This person" he kept saying. Although he did once say 'she' and 'her husband'....

erip · 5 months ago

This kills me.. The cable news stations and politicians are already talking about his "heartfelt sentiments" ,and that he's only human and that these tragedies are bi partisan..
WTF.. affairs and adultery are bipartisan but its the HYPOCRISY.. The guy, as well as other republicans talk about morality and christian values and try injecting those into the culture and that's the issue.. I never heard eliot spitzer talk about the abomination of homsexuality or god's law or christian law, but these adulterering philandering republicans, cheat and lie all the while they are trashing gays, and other minorities.
SHameful!!!!
If you talk the talk you better freaking walk the walk or shut the F*** up!!.. If you want to unzip your pants, all good, then stay out of judging my life and restricting my rights

hz536n · 5 months ago

erip,

You are 100% right. Just listen to the talking heads swoon about what a stand up guy Sanford is, how admired he is for coming forward, etc... I think he spent 5 days getting schooled in how to win friends when you're exposed as another Republican lying f&%^ing fraud. And it's working! This is the major Media's Gomer Pyle moment in South Carolina.

Downside... Palin can now wipe Mark Sanford away as a potential 2012 contender.

cervantes · 5 months ago

Spitzer did prosecute prostitution rings. So he was in fact hypocritical in a substantive way the directly engaged his responsibilities as a public servant. Just sayin' . . .

okojo · 5 months ago

His staff instead of putting water on the speculation on the Governor's disappearance, put large drums of gasoline on the rumors, and just admitted what was going on, it would turn out to be so hilarious.

I actually have a little sympathy for the guy, given Portenas are very tempting, but he already has a family in a bible belt state, and there is no way he is going to get away with this.

Also admitting this now in public is basically a nice embarrassment to his wife who tried to cover for him.

IamSmartypants · 5 months ago

"I spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina."

Is anybody else hearing strains of Evita in the background?

DonQ · 5 months ago

Don't cry for him, Argentina -
The truth is he never left her . . .

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

LMAO!

JamesR · 5 months ago

...when all he needed was a good stimulus.

jpjones · 5 months ago

Oh that is just TOO funny!!!!

HelenRainier · 5 months ago

::: snicker ::: he wanted a stimulus all right -- just know money for the people of state!

daho · 5 months ago

How the hell did he think he wouldn't get caught??? Is he that arrogant or that stupid?

Webster · 5 months ago

Yes.

offspring · 5 months ago

another anti gay good christain against gay marriage cheating hmmmm

therepguy · 5 months ago

When christianity work over time to control the lives of it members... this the results!

Men and women have to in the end be themselves not what others want them to be!

Gary · 5 months ago

I'm sorry, I haven't read any of the other comments yet, because I just can't stop laughing yet.

PattyP · 5 months ago

Seriously? All the way to Argentina? When I want to "develop a relationship with a dear, dear friend" I just go to the bar down the street from my house.

therepguy · 5 months ago

I would go to Argentina anyday of the week, as lone as the person metting me at the airport was one those good looking blond argentina guys... that's hot!

Maybe he did just that!

FunMe · 5 months ago

As we say in Spanish:

"Amor de lejos, es amor de pendejos!"

HereinDC · 5 months ago

I'm not convinced.

I know a guy's pecker can make your mind do crazy things....

but......

He was like a scared puppy up there speaking.

Even Larry Craig had more composer that this guy.

therepguy · 5 months ago

I have to agree with you...

therepguy · 5 months ago

Talk about the "sanctity of marriage"...what did the gay community do to cause this mess...Nothing!

jpjones · 5 months ago

I think it's the fact that we exist.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

I have a feeling his marriage is over...

you don't disappear for a week, over FATHER'S DAY to prove how strong your marriage is. that was essentially a big f-you to his wife and family.

he knew he was going there, over a family holiday, to screw his 'friend'... this guy's relationship is toast.

one other thing (not shown in the short version of the interview), someone asked if he ended it... he didn't say yes.

okojo · 5 months ago

Announcing his affair and taking this brazen step, is basically shooting the divorce summons across the wife's bow. He is in love, and he feels he can cross the rubicon now. Nothing gives a guy courage more than 96 hours of non stop shagging...

This is just too hilarious, I just wish all of this happened in 2000, so our great country wouldn't be in such the mess it is in now because of the Republicans.

therepguy · 5 months ago

The press need to find that woman or what ever and get her/his side of the story!

okojo · 5 months ago

She is probably kind of sore right now, and will do an exclusive for a couple advil and some ice packs.

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

I didn't think it was creepy. I thought he did a decent job with a hard press conference and incredibly actually admitted in plain english that he'd had an affair. no denials, no word parsing, no dragging his family up there with him. you don't want to give a guy too much credit for simply doing the right thing, but few politicians in his situation -- and there are a lot of them -- own up to their mistakes like he did.

TrueBleuCA · 5 months ago

Forget the affair. He abandoned his state responsibility, lied about it and to top it off left his 4 sons home without a father on Fathers' Day. There is no excuse. Plain and simple.

okojo · 5 months ago

It sounds like the marriage was over for some time, and he finally had cajones to cross the rubicon. however he nows has to wear the Scarlett Letter, a big huge "H" as in Hypocrisy.

Perhaps his Portena hotties is a secret Obama agent, who is knocking off all his potential 2012 rivals?

HereinDC · 5 months ago

"...you don't want to give a guy too much credit for simply doing the right thing,"

Do you actually think he gave a truthful news conference?

WHY would you NOT be with your kids on Father's Day?

There is much much more to this story.

hrh · 5 months ago

Or is he just as dumb as Sarah Palin? Remember her "Wild Ride" (from TX to AK) desperate fabrication to coverup a previous lie when she was allegedly pregnant.

Or is he simply controlled by his dick?

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

The guy was out banging some woman in Argentina for a year and you think that being away from his kids on Father's Day is a misdeed that requires some explanation?

If you watched the press conference, you would have seen a guy who looked contrite and straight-forward. I suppose there might be more to the story but I'm not sure what else you think he's covering up.

My point though is not that he was honest by enumerating every one of his life's sins, but that he came right out and owned up to a couple serious and embarrassing ones. And sadly, that's not something politicians are good at.

JamesR · 5 months ago

You have a point - it was a masterfully even-toned appearance of honesty. It might have actually been honesty. However:

#1 The best liars are the ones who believe it as they say it yet are just as quick to do a 180 degree turn.

#2 The guy has JUST DONE a 180 degree turn because

#3 He is only doing this because he GOT CAUGHT,

#(All of them together) The proof of his sincerity is denied by the timing - so soon and so forced upon him, and the very fact he can be so certain in his course, that is so different than his previous course, is rather inhuman. Or better: insane.

He is rationally, "honestly" describing a situation where just a few days ago he had been acting rashly, impulsively, irresponsibly and immorally - does this make him more rational, less impulsive, more responsible now? 24 hours or so later??

NO.

Therefore, performance - very very good performance - to the contrary, he must be a big fat liar, and somewhat of a sociopath because of his facility with the process. I wouldn't want him driving a cab much less a State.

He IS a good actor. Hell - Reagan was a GREAT actor. 'Nuff said.

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

Someone asked "Are you and your wife separated?" and he made a joke like "well.. in that I'm here and she's not here right now.." and added that no, they weren't technically separated. now his wife today says she kicked him out two weeks ago, as a "trial separation" (though she believes he is proving that he wants to come back). if the question were asked of me, I'd say that. he kind of hedged. so you're right, he wasn't being fully honest.

developing...

jpjones · 5 months ago

Decency would have been admitting to his family a year ago that he was in love with someone else. He abandoned his responsibilities to his state and lied about it right up through this morning. He only came clean (and we don't know how much more there is to the story) because the press was all over this. He was backed into a corner and his cover story was so preposterous and easy to deconstruct that he had no choice. Sorry, no credit.

HereinDC · 5 months ago

Ah.........

Still doesn't explain the 2 cars at different airports.

Hmmmmm

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

wait until they find security pictures of the hooker from the first stop.

okojo · 5 months ago

Hey, let me be the first to defend Governor Sanford...

Argentine Women (especially Portenas) are incredibly hot, at least he has good taste..

Oh, yeah the hypocrisy badge is so bright right now, it takes away from lusting after portenas, but If I was living in an oppressed Bible belt state with lots of fried foods, I would be putting on Carlos Gardel songs and dreaming of Dolce and Gabanna wearing Portenas.

When I was in Chile, half the people asked me why did Clinton have to pick such a dumpy woman as his mistress, he could at least pick someone better.

therepguy · 5 months ago

Argentine Women (especially Portenas) are incredibly hot... BUT THOSE MEN ARE JUST THAT MUCH MORE... HOT AS HELL AND VERY PLAYFUL!

okojo · 5 months ago

I wasn't paying atttention to the Porteno Hombres, I was worried of hitting lamposts from gawking at Portenas. I also thought Argentina was the Death Star in the Vegan Universe given the amount of leather worn and amount of meat in the diet.

How Argentine Men practice Tango dancing for years was outside the bars was to dance with other men to refine their dance steps.

JamesR · 5 months ago

Maybe he was crying so much because he thought he was getting a "Portena" and really found he got the guy who just snared Castro's son...

http://www.miamiherald.com/581/story/1095119.html

HereinDC · 5 months ago

Could it be a tranny?

A transexual from Argentina?

Maybe that's why he had to go down there.

Were there any dead tannys found in a hotel room in Argentina?

tlsintx · 5 months ago

oh the sanctimonious sanctity of it all!!!

followed by the groveling, sniveling (but yeah, secretly proud about bagging some chick on the side) apologies...

GOPers on Parade

dimitri · 5 months ago

Oh please tell me they are going to get married. This will show the hypocrisy of the American immigration system. He will be able to sponsor his "wife" for residency while gays, in commit relationships for years, have no such rights.

twostepcub · 5 months ago

Well, he can always go to the Senate. At least there he'll get a standing ovation....

Abd yes, enough already about how humanizing and heartfelt his apology is. He left the f-ng state with no plan or no notice. That would get you fired from any job. If he's not resigning, he needs to be impeached for dereliction of duty.

The infidelty thing is a whole separate issue, and goes to show the "holy roller crowd" again are overcompensating for their own sins.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

the state? he left the f-ing COUNTRY!

twostepcub · 5 months ago

LOL i actually meant South Carolina had no plan or notice. But true, how the F do you just decide to leave the country like that? And WHO PAID?

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

Someone asked that in the press conference (who paid) and he said he did

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

someone else asked if he ended it... he didn't say yes.

SkippyFlipjack · 5 months ago

um.. OK. I'm not sure what you're rebutting.

BeccaMorn · 5 months ago

They impeached Bill Clinton for a whole lot less than what Gov. Sanford did.

Let's start with the personal use of a South Carolina government vehicle, abandoning his post as governor to go (literally) incommunicado and work our way down from there.

Oh, I forgot: IOKIYAR (it's okay if you are Republican). Silly me.

therepguy · 5 months ago

Bill Clinton's blowjob cost America 8 years of bush and fashist republican bull shit!

A bit costly if you ask me!

jpjones · 5 months ago

But the upside of 8 years of Bush is that it paved the way for Obama to become president, so that now we can have universal health ca ... er ... transparent goverm ... er ... repeal of DAD ... er ... civil rights for g ... er ...
oh fucking never mind.

mjwilstein · 5 months ago

Here’s the full video of the press conference in case you missed it:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2009/06/mark-san...

David Brian Holt · 5 months ago

Wow! Is it Christmas already? The presents just keep coming. :)

sonofloud · 5 months ago

Come on, I love Madonna as much as the next gay man but she can't compare with the original Patti Lupone version !!

judybrowni · 5 months ago

"FOX News labeled the Sanford a Democrat."

But of course!

It's reflexive at this point, one of theirs fucks up, they instantly label him (her?) a Democrat, for conservatives viewers with a short memory (which may work, since Fox has a very heavy senile-age viewer base.)

tlsintx · 5 months ago

haaaahahaha!!!
yep, fox viewers have all they need to know now!

hrh · 5 months ago

They did the same thing when Mark Foley was in the nooze.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

then again... maybe they labelled him a Democrat because he screwed up with a WOMAN.

most GOPers seem to get caught with men or kids.

jpjones · 5 months ago

LOL ... yeah, it was probably an honest mistake.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

you forgot the alcoholic, beer guzzling crowd that live in trailers and have very little working brain cells.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

I'm not liking the immediate knee jerk, "Oh, what a big man he is for coming clean on National TeeVee!" from the mainstream media. How much more tone deaf can you be? This is about HYPOCRISY!

He immediately starting preaching as a DAMNED CRUTCH and the mainstream media immediately bought it. Some are starting to question it, but I'm sick to death of "Better than Thou!" Republicans getting an immediate knee jerk benefit of the doubt when they get caught in this shit.

therepguy · 5 months ago

Ament to that!

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

I have to wonder why he's doing it at all. I know he finally told everyone he went to Argentina for an exotic nervous-breakdown getaway. Who's threatening him that he had to disclose this? There's something more going on...perhaps on TMZ?

mikeyDe · 5 months ago

Sanford is an entrepreneur. Maybe someone tweeted him while he was in Argentina with the news that Bush will get 13K per page in his book deal. Book deal, film rights, his own line of sex toys.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

Hmmm, "Love in the time of Carolina"...it could come with a soundtrack of tango music.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

"exotic nervous-breakdown getaway" includes having sex with a "dear dear friend?"

LuZenMyMnd · 5 months ago

It can happen.............. Exotic sex w/a dear dear friend.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

I think it's exotic for him to have a "dear, dear friend".

JustAnOldLady · 5 months ago

Pulling my hair out.............

LuZenMyMnd · 5 months ago

LOL You sound surprised. Ensign got a standing ovation for "coming clean" What a joke!

A dem w/a conscience resigns....Arrogant Bible Thumpers weep and says, "God forgives...." and moves on. Tota Hypocricy. And who's the "Moral Majority"?

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Why do Family Value's Republicans like Senator Ensign and Governor Sanford get to pay less taxes than those of us in the LGBT community who have more stable marriages?

JamesR · 5 months ago

Good point. Also I am not hearing this difference pointed out much, yet, that these two instances involved married men boinking married women - that is they are wrecking TWO marriages, each. So far. The media are caring about the Senator and the Governor, and their wives, and not the husband(s) of their liaisons. Tacky.

jpjones · 5 months ago

Buenos Aires allows gay civil unions. THAT'S why the mistress's marriage is in trouble.

offspring · 5 months ago

lol the gays made him do it

PattyP · 5 months ago

Ya know, this could be a great opportunity for Obama to save face on his DADT/DOMA screwups and just announce he was wrong and he's going to seriously push for marriage equality and full gay rights. He could even throw in some biting sarcasm, such as "I've realized that gays should have the same right as straight people to cheat on their spouses!" It really makes me sick that Americans put up with these hypocrites. Have some backbone Obama! Admit you were wrong, fix the problem, and I, for one, will forgive you.

jpjones · 5 months ago

Dick Cheney will admit he's a war criminal before Obama apologizes for the DOMA brief.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

I wonder what he's hiding?!! . . .

dimitri · 5 months ago

Gov. Sanford's name and photo has been removed from http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/

That was quick.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

send that to John!

charles33 · 5 months ago

<sarcasm> What a great collection of photos of everyone that is near and dear to my heart! </sarcasm>

I love that Carrie Prejean's going to be there.

Karen · 5 months ago

Josh Marshall at TPM must be feeling guilty about pursuing this story over the last week, because he seems to be falling for the forgiveness claptrap.

Please.This Sanford joker got caught in lie after lie and left his state without any contact info for a week. For this he wants a medal?

HereinDC · 5 months ago

SO,
Does this mean he is kicked out the the Governors House and the wife and kids stay in the Governors mansion?

HelenRainier · 5 months ago

Well, if Rudy was still living in Gracie Mansion with Judy, maybe Mark could move in with them??

Then on real fun nights, Rudy could do his Dame Edna schtick!

Maybe they could even play Charades! Maybe Mr. Mustard will do it in the Library with the candlestick!

hrh · 5 months ago

Guess we'll just have to wait for Stewart and Colbert tonight for an intelligent and appropriate reponse. The laughable, lamentable corporate media certainly is tripping all over themselves on this. As usual.

Damn! Why did Bill Maher decide to take a break from his HBO program now????

caphillprof · 5 months ago

Has anyone heard from Ms Lindsey Graham, yet?

therepguy · 5 months ago

Good point!

triple7s · 5 months ago

I'll bet there's a Mario out there with Lindsey's DNA on him.

unrepentant_expat · 5 months ago

By the time this process of elimination is over Cheney will be the last candidate standing in 2012. ...that is I can't see him surviving a sex act.

David in Arizona · 5 months ago

Why didn't Sanford just come out and say what he's really thinking: "Screw you, ya bunch of South Carolina trailer park dimwits! Yeah I've got a girlfriend down in Argentina and I've been bangin' her for years. So what if I'm doing it on the state's dime. I deserve it. And I'm gonna keep right on bangin' her because I'm a good Republican, a better husband and the best Christian you'll ever know. So, shut the fuck up before I call out the National Guard on your indignant ass."

therepguy · 5 months ago

She most likely showed him something that his wife never heard of or wouldn't agree too... like real sex with all of it's wild latin variations!

charles33 · 5 months ago

From CNN:
"The South Carolina governor has had a bruising year, losing his fight to turn down $700 million in federal stimulus money. Sanford initially tried to require that any stimulus money pay down the state debt, a stance rejected by the Obama administration."

HAHA, they said "stance".

Rambie · 5 months ago

He's lied so much already, I wouldn't be surprised it it ended up being with a man too.

okerry · 5 months ago

He's known the homewrecker for several years. He went down to see her on Father's Day. I wonder if he's got a child with her.

noen · 5 months ago

My hypothesis, considering the current economic collapse on the horizon for the US, is that Gov. Sanford took time to understand and research the economic collapse of Argentina which happened much like the current events in the US.

"Argentina quickly lost the confidence of investors and the flight of money away from the country increased."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090614_th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDNMB6wYmI

ndtovent · 5 months ago

"OH Dear...dear, dear." ROFL! My memory of world geography isn't that great, but I didn't think that the Appalachian trail extended to Argentina.

ndtovent · 5 months ago

...but it won't matter. All those SC penntacostals will lay hands on him and forgive him

yawn · 5 months ago

whats with the gender neutral language? is this dear, dear, friend a man?

paul · 5 months ago

Yeah. Why are we all assuming this is with a woman?

And another point of hypocrisy.... Sanford was AGAINST off-shore drilling. I guess he's changed his position on that.

yawn · 5 months ago

ah ha!

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 5 months ago

Wait a minute he said it started with emails???? In other words this was an online hookup thing? Roh Roh pass the popcorn cuz this is gonna get even ickier

Cliff · 5 months ago

hdtovent needs to learn how to spell.
Truebleu is the typical California "sicko" who probably is called "Trueblo" by his rear admiral buds!
Sanford is a "typical" politician...get over it.
You leftists didn't say anything when Slick Willie was getting his nob jobs so why run your mouths now?

tlsintx · 5 months ago

haaaahahaha...someone's all in a tizzy!

Robert · 5 months ago

We leftists didn't have to say much because right wingers like you was blasting Clinton enough for all of us. I'm waiting for Senator Graham to come out of the closet.

gonzalez · 5 months ago

You rednecks sure support your IDIOTS! What a bunch of LOSERS!

JohnRJ08 · 5 months ago

I'd post my usual one or two paragraphs about this news, but find that nothing really needs to be added. The story says it all. Just priceless. Sanford is a microcosm of the hypocritical and steadily deteriorating Republican Party.

bob_h · 5 months ago

I'd be willing to bet the "dear, dear friend" in Argentina was compensated for her efforts. The Argentine press are not showing a picture of her. BA has a huge, recreational sex industry.

Zach · 5 months ago

I would burn down the Governor's mansion tonight. Maybe then he'd understand that people are tired of the games. People are going hungry, not being educated and are getting foreclosed on, and this asshole does this?

facebook-15903144 · 5 months ago

Another one bites the dust....

lumberjack · 5 months ago

You sure this hasn't been photoshopped? The identification is as an R on the only video on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFaElFI_s0

licia2 · 5 months ago

Ironic that this is what knocked John Ensign off the news radar. Looks like that one is still percolating though - more developments in the Ensign affair being reported in LV.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/24/fox...

triple7s · 5 months ago

What's the word I'm looking for, you know, when a man pays someone money (taxpayer money in the form of a doubled salary) to have sex with him. I don't think that's legal even in Nevada.

gonzalez · 5 months ago

Why is it that these republican assholes don't resign. Boy oh boy, they sure are after the Democarts when they do the same. I bet he'll find God and get re-elected. These guys are such hypocrites!

melissap · 5 months ago

Just curious - did anyone ever ask him if his dear dear friend is a man or a woman?