Hence my speculation that, on some level, he wanted to get caught.


And I'm trying really hard not to make any stimulus jokes.

yeah...makes for a good excuse if he wants to get OUT of politics due to pressure strain.

Twisted tho...LOL

Go ahead...make one stimulus joke I dare ya.... :)

MC, I'm glad you were entertained.

I'm cynical enough to think that the Ensign stuff forced a crisis, one way or another.

Why don't we declare a Political-Out-Your-Extramarital-Relationship week and get it all done at once?

Maybe John Edwards could publish his DNA results as part of the circus.

Why would you assume he could MAKE his wife stand there? She obviously wasn't going to. If a woman had no clue where her husband is, (other than the fact that he's most likely with his mistress) why would she get up there now and pull a "stand by your man at the last minute?

Based on her actions so far, I really like her. I bet she been done cussed him out.

I think we really need something to distract us from North Korea....but this isn't enough!

No, I'm thinking of it on a more personal level. Taking him at his word when he talks about his faith, etc., he was engaging in behavior that was directly contrary to the values he claims to hold. If he's not lying about holding those values (maybe he is, but maybe he isn't), then somethings got to give or the self-conflict can blow up. What he did strikes me as possibly a way of forcing a resolution on himself, a sort of subconscious "save me from myself" behavior.

And the entertainment just keeps coming. :D

I wouldn't assume anything -- perhaps "make" was the wrong choice of words about the Spitzers. But I have seen enough similar press conferences where the wife stood there with stoic expressions and a killer vibe.

Gov. Sanford admits to extramarital affair

Relationship revealed after S.C. governor's mysterious trip to Argentina

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31522908...ics/?GT1=43001


Duh!!!!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

It was obvious that he was having an affair. It's the first thing I thought when I read about his "mysterious trip."

Add Pennsylvania's governor to that list. Now, if we could only get someone normal to run against him. :rolleyes:

LOL - that was the talk of our office, too - followed by a deep sigh when the "other person" turned out to be a woman.

There's a saying in politics (if you'll pardon my language): "I hope the screwing you're getting is worth the screwing you'll BE getting." Gov. Sanford has thrown away any chance he had at the White House with both hands - not that I know enough about him to care one way or another. I just hate to watch people shoot themselves in the foot so blatently, especially if they were otherwise quite worthy of mention.

It happens all the time.

If MysticCat's theory that he wanted to get caught isn't true, why do idiots risk SO MUCH for these emotional and/or physical affairs?

ETA: From the article I posted:
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.

This puts a spin on it, as far as I'm concerned. He disappears around father's day for a "mysterious trip" and his wife knew about this woman for months. His wife may not be the ballbuster that BabyPink_FL is making her out to be. Maybe his wife was just being full of guamguam.

He can, apparently, count on her to keep quiet and play "wife" for five months after he's admitted to an affair . . . sounds like she's "standing by her (govern)man" huh?

I'm sure she done cussed him out, right after she lied to protect him ("I don't know where he is"). I, too, would have enjoyed the gay lover angle - we don't get enough squirming among people anymore.

On a completely related note . . . is this another step toward the public simply not caring what public figures do on their own time? I'm pretty unconcerned by the "Politicians are douche bags" angle - I mean really, a cheating politician?!? Heavens to Thomas Jefferson's illegitimate kids! - but with Manny Ramirez getting a standing ovation, Jon and Kate having their highest-rated show ever, etc., do we at some point become apathetic (or even morbidly addicted) to scandal? Or are politicians held to a different standard?

He also said that he was going to Argentina "to end the relationship." HA! It does not take five days to end a relationship. He could have done that over the phone! He also claimed that he "cried for five days straight." Yeah right! He did :::ahem::: something else for four days, cried the last day, and went home.

Also, what wife would let her husband leave the country by himself for almost a week to "say goodbye" to his mistress?

This has more holes than Swiss cheese.

That's what really scares me. Have we all become so jaded that we'll accept any conduct, so long as we get warm fuzzies about someone? Or have politicians become so synonymous with corruption that we haven't a snowball's chance of ever having a decent one represent us?

I am apathetic to such scandals.

I think politicians are full of guamguam (I'm in cussin' rehab), anyway, and that includes infedility.

But, I'll discuss a politician's antics if there's nothing else to discuss.