DISQUS

Wayne · 5 months ago

A stimulus package he could not refuse

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Oh, that one wins the prize today!!

ndtovent · 5 months ago

ROFL!

barts · 5 months ago

These emasculated republican vermin are engaging in an all out circle jerk while we have a President who is too busy kissing their asses to pay any attention to those who practically gave blood sweat and tears to get him elected.

DutchButch · 5 months ago

Question: "Do you think the Republican party should become more libertarian on the issue of gay marriage?"

Answer: "No definitely not. I do think we oughta lighten up about hetero marriages. Not define it as just for One man and One woman. I firmly believe that God had One man and TWO women in mind!"

An_American_Karol · 5 months ago

Real tears of embarrassment - flash back to Swaggert..."I have sinned..again"

Scott · 5 months ago

The NEW republican motto:

"What's the point of having a marriage if you can't fuck it up?"

SD_Dave · 5 months ago

ROFLMFAO!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

FunMe · 5 months ago

These guy and all the republiCON hypocrites should be used in Marriage Equality ads letting people know that those who are for straight marriage only are just a bunch of HYPCORITES!

Keith & Dustin · 5 months ago

Yes the majority of them are hypocrites. Republicons claim to be for traditional family values while they are banging every whore around, or having male prostitutes service their manly needs. They are so blatant in their hypocrisy it's kinda comical. If you can't walk the walk you shouldn't talk the talk. This is more proof that we all shouldn't be judging each other. I question anyones sanity who feels the need to be judgmental of another persons life. Our country would be a much better place if we would agree to have equal rights for gays, at least they wouldn't look as hypocritical as they do when their sordid lives get splattered all over the Internet.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Marriage is between a Man and a Woman and whatever the hell you want to include as long as you're a Republican right and try to keep your really sick shit a secret, right?

They just keep making the argument for us that out and proud gays and lesbians, and our families, are really rather boring compared to their secretive compartmentalized lives. Most of them enjoy all the perks of marriage, and then just do whatever the hell they want in secret, until busted, while shooting off their "Better than Thou!" finger at everyone else hoping it will cause everyone to focus away from THEM! Its called PROJECTION and Republicans are masters at the game. Hell, I don't WANT to play that game. Like most gays and lesbians I know, my life is an open book and I'm glad it is because I don't have to HIDE any major secrets. What you see is what you get with us in the open and affirming LGBT community.

I'd lock up my kids if I knew a Family Values Republican was in the neighborhood!!!

jenjen64 · 5 months ago

"Do as I say, not as I do!!!"

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

"and, by GAWD, LOOK at that FINGER I have POINTING at YOU instead of the FOUR pointing back at ME!!!" LOL

jenjen64 · 5 months ago

LMAO!!!

jpjones · 5 months ago

It's enough to make me wish I were straight - I could use the sex!

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

LOL!

RitornaVincitor · 5 months ago

My husband and I will have our 25th anniversary next month. It will also be our first anniversary, since it will be one year since we were finally able to marry in California. We got married in 2004 in San Francisco, but that was struck down six months later. Then our beloved GOP Austrian weight lifter Governator not once, but twice vetoed our chance to get married again. And when we finally did manage to get married again, those bastions of monogomy known as Mormons tried to take it away. And in all these 25 years I've never cheated on my husband. But these Mormon polygamists and GOP philanderers want to lecture me on family values!

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Says it all, really!

pjkool · 5 months ago

I was driving when the story broke and tuned to foxtalk for a moment and the fox spin monkeys are already saying it's no big deal because it wasn't a gay affair and no children were fathered. They are ignoring the fact that Sanford is a member of the rabid family values party who all wear their fellowship in Christ on their sleeves and use their faith as a weapon against those with whom they disagree. I feel sorry for the four sons who spent father's day without a father because their dad found the scent of a woman other than their mother more appealing than his family. Just like in other Republican cases the children have been used as props to convey their false family values message. And the conservatives claim kids are better off with a mom and a dad in a Christian nuclear family. Hypocrites! Religion out of politics now!

Gridlock · 5 months ago

How long till he's "forgiven by Jebus" and then welcomed back with a standing ovation from the old white men?

jpjones · 5 months ago

"They are ignoring the fact that Sanford is a member of the rabid family values party who all wear their fellowship in Christ on their sleeves and use their faith as a weapon against those with whom they disagree."

Ignoring it HELL - that's precisely the kind of behavior they CELEBRATE. That is, as long as we're talking about white Christians and not brown Muslims.

pjkool · 5 months ago

Funny you should mention that. I was wondering what the divorce rate is among muslims because I have known many muslim families and divorce is something that just doesn't seem to happen yet these same family values christians demonize the muslim religion every chance they get.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 5 months ago

Rep. Sanford voted to impeach Clinton. Ten years later:

Hoist by his own petard. And now his petard really, really hurts.

Steve_in_CNJ · 5 months ago

if you experience painful petards, stop using GOP and consult your doctor.

mml34 · 5 months ago

looks like he did more than "clear his mind" in argentina. i love the excuses too - "it started out innocently...it just happened" - as though his not telling his wife where he was going was an oversight, and his plane unexpectedly diverted to ARGENTINA and his pants just took themselves off! WTF.

nuthnfiner · 5 months ago

He says, around 1:45 in, "This accumulation of debt...is absolutely core to a person's life, for it's implications for the kids and for the grandkids."

He was really concerned about his own kids.

Mateo1970 · 5 months ago

The press needs to get an answer from Sanford whether he engaged in safe-sex or could have been exposed to HIV. His family and children as well as the public deserve to know the specific sex acts he engaged in and determine if they put anyone at risk.

Arouete · 5 months ago

Oh yes. The sanctity of marriage. WE must preserve "traditional marriage' and all the hypocrisy that comes with it.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 5 months ago

So his wife KICKED HIM OUT! ROFLMAO at Christian values...
Who would Jesus fuck in Buenos Aires?

Sing it Evita!!!!

Istherenonamethatdoesntexist · 5 months ago

I would vote for no one.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

bwahahahaa!

jpjones · 5 months ago

OMG - ROFLMAO!!!!

cureall · 5 months ago

It would take one thing to solve the deficit problems and still have money left for healthcare - and a side benefit of not enough time on elected officials hands to have these affairs in the first place.

Pay every congressman, governor, state congressmen and mayors BY THE HOUR!!!!! We'd be rich

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Governor Sanford owes the Appalachian Trail an apology and a lot of money for the resources wasted, like for all the bloodhounds, and hillbillies that were sent to tree him and track him down when ALL ALONG he was hiding out in SOUTH AMERICA! In fact, how are we supposed to get word to all those hillbilly search parties combing the woods for him?!!? I heard the reward was the first one to catch him got to make him squeal like a pig! They are going to be REALLY disappointed.

RitornaVincitor · 5 months ago

Lol. Should have sent him hunting with Dick Cheney.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

LOL - They "GOP" probably still will... he isn't done paying his "dues."

barts · 5 months ago

After a HARD day's work at denying federal help for schools (in low income areas) in his state, Sanford needed to take a badly needed vacation in order to nail some Argentinan woman while his children were gift wrapping his father's day tie.

It just makes your eyes water at the thought of his devotion to Family Values.

revphat · 5 months ago

So I understand he went missing last Thurs or Fri? Reappears on Tues. And that he went down there to break up with her.

So it took a very long weekend to break up? They must have broken up over and over and over.

Guessing he wished he had text'd his break up...it is the modern thing to do.

jpjones · 5 months ago

"C'mon baby, let's break up just once more for old time's sake."

An_American_Karol · 5 months ago

hi, revphat. So happy to see you post. ;-p

MrHeathen · 5 months ago

I guess he really was "going off to clear is head" LOL

Mateo1970 · 5 months ago

Sanford is despicable. There better be a major investigation into his use of taxpayer funds to go on these sexual liaisons in Argentina. The sex partner must be fully interviewed too to determine if they engaged in sodomy and further endangered the sanctity of marriage. This pig has a lot of questions to answer.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Yes, we need to bring in the Christian Taliban Inquisition experts to question both him and his mistress. There are religious laws you know, that punish out of wedlock relationships. Since he is an ultra-religious man, I'm sure he'll want to accept the punishment verdict handed down by their Grand Exulted Inquisitor. tick tock tick tock

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 5 months ago

Mistress??? More likely a rentboy

HereinDC · 5 months ago

Not to joke....but he should be put on a suicide watch.

That was one of the worse press conferences I've ever seen.

There is more to the story.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

I have no sympathy towards a man who tirelessly has tried to bring down my relationship with his pious rantings. Let him experience what it feels like to have much of the world against you. His crime is serious only because he thinks we are the destruction of marriage and not his adultery.

nikto · 5 months ago

Sanford is indeed a "respected, popular Republican Fascist."

ftfy

terrya · 5 months ago

I could watch only a little bit of that swill.

Mark Sanford is yet another of those "preserving the sanctity of marriage" hypocrites who make me want to puke.

I am reading online about how brave he was today, etc. I have ZERO sympathy for him.

unrepentant_expat · 5 months ago

It seems he really did take a naked hike.

justadood · 5 months ago

FauxNews has already tagged Sanford (D).....

As Markos said: "Every Fucking time.....it's no accident"

and who's gonna call them on it? (crickets from MSM)

RichardS · 5 months ago

LMAO..... how typical of these "family values" rethugs..... Republican = Hypocrite!

tlsintx · 5 months ago

comparing the vid from two weeks ago with the apology vid from today...two words: Grecian. Formula.

GOPers suck
ok, four words.

offspring · 5 months ago

why are people saying he is brave? He cheated on his wife, the mother of his kids, and went missing as a elected leader for six days, while he sorted out his international affair, which of course the travel was paid by the tax payers, how is it brave to admit you where busted being a lying bastard. The best part is it has been going on for a year, the whole time he is preaching about marriage he was cheating on his family. It amazes me how people forget and forgive the repubs, and no i never forgot or forgave the president for cheating on his family he is a bastard for that period. It isnt brave to cheat on your family the mother of you childeren, there is nothing brave about coming clean because you did.

Mateo1970 · 5 months ago

What's beyond despicable is that he was engaging in his illicit sexual liaisons AT THE TIME OF THE MSNBC INTERVIEW!

Jersey · 5 months ago

Wow he totally blew off his four young sons on father's day to get fucked in south america. Those are some family values. He couldn't stay home on a day as important to his kids as fathers day. Sick.

DutchButch · 5 months ago

No no, you didn't hear him right:

He spent 5 days CRYING in Argentina!! Not fucking!
Sheesh, how insensitive can you be?!

Ginger_FL · 5 months ago

Yeah....Riiiight....

Thank you madam...may I have another...
SMACK !!!

LMFAO

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 5 months ago

He looks like the type who cries when he comes. Blubbering, in gratitude, "gracias. Muy guapa."

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Well, **it has hit the fan. Of course, we guessed it before this was revealed. To all those naysayers who kept punching us with, "how do you know?", "Can't the guy have some down time to himself without having to tell everyone?" etc. Well, you were partially correct. He was after some "down" time with his mistress. ( as in "get down!" ) The hypocrisy of the GOP is astounding. If he were in the Senate, the GOP would be applauding him. This is the Mr. Morals man who would rather blow off his Father's Day with his four kids and wife, for something more important, his mistress. I hope his wife's next question to him through her lawyer is, "How much is your net worth?"

DutchButch · 5 months ago

Trust me, the GOP will still find a place and time to applaud him.
After all, for a man to have an affair with another woman is the ultimate 'manly' thing to do. (Plus, they all applaud while being so so very happy it's not THEM having been found out!)

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Time waits for no adulterer. ;-)

Ginger_FL · 5 months ago

LMFAO !!!

I can Hardly wait for Keith's show and of course...John Stewart
OMG !!!!

So many hypocrits....so little time LOL
If they want to F*ck around...stop playing the uber-Christo card. They always end up being exposed as disgusting, lying, imoral pigs in the end.

judybrowni · 5 months ago

On another note: I got two begging letters from Dems this week, the DCCC and Paul Hodes.

Sent both back with this message: "Not another dime from this Democrat until public health option, and full gay rights are passed."

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to send you that protest, DCCC and Hodes!

RitornaVincitor · 5 months ago

Me too! Mine came from Team Obama. They wanted me to make another contribution. I responded that I would be making no more contributions until Mr. Obama stopped breaking his promises to the gay community.

SCLiberal · 5 months ago

He needs to be impeached. Now.

nicho · 5 months ago

I always figured he was down there doing the Horizontal Tango.

SD_Dave · 5 months ago

Who say they were horizontal?

barts · 5 months ago

The guilty conservative thin-lipped white straight men are tripping over themselves.


Why does Obama even care to listen to these republican asswipes?

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Somehow, they impress him.

jpjones · 5 months ago

Pathological need to be admired by EVERYONE.

Butch1 · 5 months ago

Oh, I bet they would like to take that segment back.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Maybe Peggy Noonan can drip some real sickeningly sweet, over dramatic prose out of her pen and make it all better?

Jersey · 5 months ago

Can I just say that I love Peggy Noonan. She's like the original Carrie Pregean. Everything outta her mouth eventually brings hillarity. Remember when she was still miked and going on about what an idiot Palin was. God Noonan brings me joy.

revphat · 5 months ago

But all is not lost . . . I'm sure they can pray the adulterer out of him.

ndtovent · 5 months ago

Yeah, like I posted earlier, the penntacostals (sp?) will pray for him, lay hands on him, and all is forgiven.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

More Ted Haggard religionistas laying hands on people *shiver*. Take Sarah Palin's advice (about David Letterman) and keep your kids away from 'em

MrHeathen · 5 months ago

I know this is off topic, but
I just can't wait for Sarah Palin's nelly little son to come out of the closet, it's not a matter of "if" but "when". Has anyone else ever noticed that kid? If he doesn't turn out to be gay then I don't know what!

SD_Dave · 5 months ago

Trick? Tack? Trapp? Track? I can never get the name right. The one that just joined the service? If that's the one you're talking about, I hadn't notice, but then again I usually don't have my gaydar turned on. Ya, I've had my gay card revoked before. Let me tell ya, it really sucks too!

kalithiotis · 5 months ago

Who was sitting next to him on his trip to South Americs?
Common investgative reporters.

MrHeathen · 5 months ago

Call Bobby Jindal, an exocism is in order! praise the lord

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

Call Sarah Palin...apparently she has voodoo on her side as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJN3GOcz_k&feat...

brb915 · 5 months ago

If it weren't so pitifully funny, it would or should be the last straw for the "base" out there if you can call it that. Look up all you 20%ers. Next time you come down on me and mine for being too 'librul', too tolerant, too accepting, or too activist, do me a favor and STFU, sit down, quietly close your Bible, and get your gut check on....the list of narrow, one issue, pseudo family value, G-d quotin', whistlin' Dixie, just grew again and this sector of the publoic just got the straw that broke the donkey's back.

Diogenes · 5 months ago

You know, we only have Sanford's word that he was visiting a senorita. Keep in mind there's a lot of gauchos down there who know how to handle their bolas. I'm just sayin'

Steve_in_CNJ · 5 months ago

that would significantly up the price of the blackmail. does sanford have that kind of money?

nicho · 5 months ago

And, the age of consent in Argentina is 13.

Just sayin'.

woodroad34 · 5 months ago

In the classic "Brideshead Revisited" scene where Charles and Sebastian go to a gay bar and one of Sebastian's friends comes up to Charles and asks him if he would care to t-t-t-t-tango.

Of course, there's this little bit of tango interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB74i3N7qoQ&feat...

nikto · 5 months ago

Sanford just destroyed my marriage.

ndtovent · 5 months ago

If I remember correctly, it DOES say somewhere in the bible that adultery is detestable and an abomination - in more than one place if I'm not mistaken.

nicho · 5 months ago

Not for men, though, unfortunately, in most of those passages.

Married women couldn't fuck around -- or it was the neighborhood stoning pit.

Men could screw around with women, but it was a property crime -- not adultery. Women belonged either to their father or their husband - they were chattel.

SCLiberal · 5 months ago

much like today's Muslim countries.

SD_Dave · 5 months ago

Or FLDS Compounds :)

Istherenonamethatdoesntexist · 5 months ago

Probably not too many would want to use the Bible as the governing body. Adulterers or others.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

But there are plenty that do WANT to use the Bible as the governing body. They just want to PICK and CHOOSE the convenient parts for whatever thing they happen to "detest" along with "their Lord."

PeteWa · 5 months ago

These are just a few things I'm curious about:

Does Sanford make frequent trips to Argentina to cheat on his wife and ignore his children and his state?

Did Sanford meet the woman he commits adultery with here in the U.S.A.?
If so, how often does he fly the two of them to exotic locations where he won't be bothered by his annoying children and wife?

How often does Sanford cheat on his wife, and with how many partners?
When was the last time his wife had a full STD check up?

Was the person that Sanford met in Argentina underage, and if so, does he think it's extra funny that he tried to deny money to the school system in his state while he is "dating" someone who could be one of his students?

mirth · 5 months ago

con't...

Did he use a state-owned computer for his emails to her?

Did he meet her online? A chat room, a porno site?

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 5 months ago

no no no the gender is all wrong...he met the guy on gay dot com

jenjen64 · 5 months ago

Mrs. Sanford claims they were seperated for about two weeks already:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sc_governor_where

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

Yes, but we now have to start asking what do the married Talibangelicals mean when they are talking about "separated?" Separated, as in how? Divorced, or not in the same room together separated? The Defense of Marriage Act supposedly protects opposite sex marriages from "the gays" but does DOMA protect marriages from "being separated?"

jenjen64 · 5 months ago

You are right.
I think the DOMA supporters should concentrate on those in their own backyard by trying to figure out why divorce rates are so high and saving broken families instead of breaking up families because of homophobia.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

I just want to thank G-d my prayers were answered!

PRAISE G-d and Hallelujah!

The initial reports are Governor Sanford's adultery did not involve dirty diapers, sex with children, snuff films, bestiality or any other typical Republican behavior. Our prayers have been answered...

G-O-Pocrisy at its FINEST!

RitornaVincitor · 5 months ago

So Sanford has been fighting to preserve "traditional marriage", and all the while he's been cheating on his wife. What's that word for people like that? Hypochondriac? No, that's not it. Um... Hypoallergenic? No. That's not it. Hippocratic? Noooo.... Um... Oh. I remember. REPBULICAN!! That's it.

cowboyneok · 5 months ago

I think a new word has been coined for it:

GOP-ocrisy

RitornaVincitor · 5 months ago

GOP-ocrisy! LOVE IT!

Name · 5 months ago

Peggy Noonan addresses the governor as "Governor Stanford", but refers to the president as "Mister Obama"...

DCinDC · 5 months ago

Once again, Hiking my foot!

markf217 · 5 months ago

Sanford is an Air Force reservist. Adultery is a CRIME under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I hope this law-and-order Republican is charged under the UCMJ with adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer. The hypocrisy of the far right is amazing.

KerrynowCampau · 5 months ago

That would only happen if it turned out his lover was male

markf217 · 5 months ago

I disagree. Heterosexual adultery is punishable as a crime under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles...
As governor, Sanford is Commanding Officer of the SC National Guard (in addition to being a reserve Air Force officer). His conduct was "to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces or was of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces."
I hope he is prosecuted.

markf217 · 5 months ago

As governor, Sanford is Commander-in-Chief of the South Carolina National Guard (in addition to being an Air Force reserve officer) . Sanford publicly admitted being an adulterer and admitted to violating Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. All of the Republicans who don't want to repeal DADT won't have much credibility with the military if they don't call for his resignation. It is bad enough that whoremonger David Vitter was placed by the GOP on the Senate Armed Services Committee. None of this shows much respect by the GOP for people in the military.

Istherenonamethatdoesntexist · 5 months ago

Where Is Mark Sanford’s Love Child, Or the Bodies of His Young Male Victims?

Wonkette headline...

jenjen64 · 5 months ago

Not sure if anyone else caught on to this, but Sanford claimed the "affair is now over". He claimed he told his wife about it 5 months ago; she claims she kicked him out two weeks ago for a "trial separation". So did he travel to Argentina to officially break it off or did he decide to end it after he got caught at the airport? Why did it take 7 days to tell his lover it's over? Makes one wonder if he would have continued if he hadn't got caught. Methinks more will come out. I hope people keep digging and dig deep. Hypocrisy really chaps my hide!

mozziekiller · 5 months ago

leave britney alone! he's human!

lololololololol

houstonray · 5 months ago

BWAHAHAHA!! Have you seen the emails that are coming out now? Here is one:

Sanford's office Wednesday did not dispute the authenticity of the emails, The State reported. One exchange was dated July 10, 2008 when the governor is reported to have written to her:

"Two, mutual feelings .... You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details ..."

LMAO!!!! Sounds like he lifted a passage from the writings of Mrs. Cheney!

mozziekiller · 5 months ago

Mrs Cheney admiring Mr Cheney's tan lines and curvey hips

thanks for the visual

gross

houstonray · 5 months ago

I meant Lynne Cheney's cheesy Lesbian sex novel passages....now I've got a completely different visual in my head too! ha.

mml34 · 5 months ago

politico has a link to an article in state which quotes emails between the two love birds. what a scum-bag!

mozziekiller · 5 months ago

trips to argentina to bang his whore, ski trips with mccain, boats in the bahamas, family trips to tibet and nepal and he still has time to run the great state of what? the great state of hypocrisy........

i sure hope his 4 sons follow in his foot steps...they must be so proud of thier traditional-values daddy

a-hole

Istherenonamethatdoesntexist · 5 months ago

Sounds like he messed up in a big-big way, but his kids haven't yet.

Chelsey didn't do anything wrong either.

mirth · 5 months ago

"I also suspect I feel a little vulnerable because 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... 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," Sanford wrote last July."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/Pap...

More:

http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html

blackjack00801 · 5 months ago

I'm sure that, sadly, there are already those who are out there arguing that same sex marriage is the main force behind the recent adulterous behavior of Ensign and Sanford and will twist the behavior of these men to use against us. And, almost as sadly, there are those out there who will unquestioningly believe those arguments to be true.