SC Governor reappears...after going to Argentina?

FSUZeta · #1 07-01-2009, 07:25 AM

it is interesting to see someone's political career being so magnificently destroyed by the self destruct button. the today show just played part of an interview where sanford admitted "physical contact" with numerous women over the past couple of years, but says of his affair with the argentine woman :it's "a love story"-"she is his soulmate".

crash and burn!

UGAalum94 · #2 07-01-2009, 10:47 AM

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it is interesting to see someone's political career being so magnificently destroyed by the self destruct button. the today show just played part of an interview where sanford admitted "physical contact" with numerous women over the past couple of years, but says that his affair with the argentine woman as "a love story"-"she is his soulmate".

crahs and burn!

I can't figure out why no one can get him to stop talking. I understand that the media probably doesn't want him to, but is there no one, personally or politically in South Carolina who can just say, "enough, buddy, enough." "Think of your kids, dude, and shut up."

Munchkin03 · #3 07-01-2009, 10:56 AM

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I can't figure out why no one can get him to stop talking. I understand that the media probably doesn't want him to, but is there no one, personally or politically in South Carolina who can just say, "enough, buddy, enough." "Think of your kids, dude, and shut up."

He keeps on saying crazy stuff, too! "Crossing the ultimate line...soulmate...blah blah blah."

ThetaDancer · #4 07-01-2009, 11:24 AM

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He keeps on saying crazy stuff, too! "Crossing the ultimate line...soulmate...blah blah blah."

Haha seriously. When I heard that "crossing the ultimate line" nonsense I couldn't believe anyone would actually say that.

UGAalum94 · #5 07-01-2009, 11:48 AM

I think he needs a priest that he can privately confess to.

I know I've got the denomination wrong (well, he's Episcopal, so he could find a priest, but confession might be weird), but I think might be what's driving him. He wants to confess everything and then hope to be forgiven.

Since I don't think Jenny's willing to play that role, and I love her for that, he's using the media, which is the wrong call.

ThetaDancer · #6 07-01-2009, 12:07 PM

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I think he needs a priest that he can privately confess to.

I know I've got the denomination wrong (well, he's Episcopal, so he could find a priest, but confession might be weird), but I think might be what's driving him. He wants to confess everything and then hope to be forgiven.

Since I don't think Jenny's willing to play that role, and I love her for that, he's using the media, which is the wrong call.

I agree with that analysis. Maureen Dowd wrote in her column today "a news wire is not a spiritual adivser" but apparently he missed that memo.

MysticCat · #7 07-01-2009, 12:17 PM

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I know I've got the denomination wrong (well, he's Episcopal, so he could find a priest, but confession might be weird), but I think might be what's driving him. He wants to confess everything and then hope to be forgiven.

There is confession among Episcopalians (formally called "Reconciliation of a Penitent" in the Book of Common Prayer), although SC tends to be fairly low church, so maybe it's not done so much there.

Frankly, I think there's a really interesting religion angle to all of this that the press, not surprisingly, is missing for the most part.

Munchkin03 · #8 07-01-2009, 12:18 PM

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There is confession among Episcopalians (formally called "Reconciliation of a Penitent" in the Book of Common Prayer), although SC tends to be fairly low church, so maybe it's not done so much there.

Frankly, I think there's a really interesting religion angle to all of this that the press, not surprisingly, is missing for the most part.

He's acting like Jimmy Swaggart!

UGAalum94 · #9 07-01-2009, 12:31 PM

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There is confession among Episcopalians (formally called "Reconciliation of a Penitent" in the Book of Common Prayer), although SC tends to be fairly low church, so maybe it's not done so much there.

Frankly, I think there's a really interesting religion angle to all of this that the press, not surprisingly, is missing for the most part.

I had wondered if Anglicans/Episcopalians had dropped confession entirely since there was a desire to get away from priestly intermediaries for the OP (Original Protestants).

To me, it seems like such a basic spiritual need to respond to, although I find the Catholic requirement too intense to be comfortable personally.