"Family Values" Goppie can't stand being around his kids, even on Father's Day.

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Where in the World Is South Carolina's Governor?

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Where is South Carolina's governor?

The lieutenant governor doesn't know, and neither does a state senator who's a close confidante. Even Gov. Mark Sanford's wife is in the dark.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said he's been told the governor's staff is in contact with the second-term Republican, but Sanford's wife said she hasn't heard from him in several days, including Father's Day.

More Goppie "family values" in action. It's Sanford & Sons (he has four boys). He didn't want to be around his wife or his kids on Father's Day. That's nice.

He disappeared last Thursday. His personal phones and his official state phones were turned off. The head of the state police unit that is charged with providing his security said he has no idea where he is.

Sanford, who's also chairman of the Republican Governors Association, earned a reputation as the nation's most vocal anti-bailout governor by refusing $700 million in federal stimulus money for schools until he lost a court battle earlier this month.

This guy is really out of touch with reality. Last week the Republican-controlled South Carolina state legislature overturned all ten of his vetoes, some of them by overwhelming margins.

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He took a hike?

That's the latest version of Where in the World Is Governor Sanford. His office has lied repeatedly. First they said they were in touch with him but would not say where he was. Then, several hours later, they admitted they had not been in touch with him and really didn't know where he was. They even lied to the Republican Lt. Governor's office.

How can the governor of a state go missing for five days with no one in the state government being able to contact him in the case of an emergency? At least his wife was honest about it. She said she didn't know where he was and she hadn't spoken to him in several days.

Why would you not even call your young kids on Father's Day? Goppie "family values" are strange.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford hasn't been seen since Thursday. His staff says he's just taking some time to clear his mind and gather thoughts since the stimulus fight and that he was been known to travel without his security. But when he left, he didn't even tell his wife where he was headed, authorities went so far as to track his cell phone and his Republican lieutenant governor said he'd tried to reach Sanford, but his staff misled even him. Twitter messages were left in Sanford's name yesterday about the state's government structure and Sunday about the stimulus. Last night, his staff said he was actually hiking in Appalachian Trail.

I think they probably needed a warrant to track his cell phone signal. Or maybe they just called the NSA. They know where everybody is and what everybody is talking about, or writing about in their emails.

You don't head south to Atlanta if you're looking for the Appalachian Trail. I smell a bit of hanky-panky here. Maybe he has an Ensign problem?

I love this article in The Australian:
Case of walkabout South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford grips US

MARK Sanford's wife said she did not know where he was. His deputy knew nothing. After revising the story several times, even his office spokesman admitted he was not sure.

The case of South Carolina's missing Governor set tongues wagging across the US yesterday, after no one had heard from him for five days.

Last Thursday, Mr Sanford left his governor's mansion in the state capital, Columbia. He was seen driving out alone in his security detail's black Chevrolet Suburban 4WD.

Mr Sanford's last known location was reportedly a long way from home, a few days later, after a mobile phone tower picked up his signal near Atlanta in the adjoining state of Georgia.

The disappearance could be dismissed as a man seeking time alone, and no one has suggested his safety was in doubt.

But Mr Sanford is no ordinary wanderer. He is not only South Carolina's head of state, and normally accompanied by bodyguards. In recent months he has been touted as a potential Republican Party candidate for president in 2012. Some commentators speculated yesterday that Sanford had already blown his chances after the demonstration of bizarre behaviour.

The Republicans are in a funk after losing the presidency to the Democrats' Barack Obama and getting thrashed in congressional elections. Last week, John Ensign, a senator from Nevada and a potential presidential nominee strongly backed by conservative Christians, effectively bowed out of the 2012 race after admitting to having had an affair with a former staffer, amid allegations of blackmail.

[...]

Mr Sanford's wife, Judy, confirmed yesterday her husband had been gone for several days and she did not know where he was. He appeared not to have contacted Mrs Sanford or their four sons over the Father's Day weekend. Speaking from the family's beach house on Sullivan Island, Mrs Sanford told South Carolina's The State newspaper: "He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids."

Mr Sanford's office initially issued a statement saying the Governor was taking time away from the office to "recharge". Spokesman Joel Sawyer later said the Governor was hiking on the Appalachian Trail, but confirmed staff had not heard from him.

Mr Sanford's deputy, Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, said power had not been transferred to him in Mr Sanford's absence.

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Sanford Spotted in Atlanta

Sanford's office claims that the governor was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. The last contact from his cell phone was in Atlanta.

This afternoon he was spotted boarding a plane at the Atlanta airport. His left his state-owned SUV at the Columbia, SC airport's parking lot. (P.S. -- He must have taken a flight from Columbia to Atlanta, and then from Atlanta to Buenos Aires.)

He was in Atlanta. He wasn't hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Somebody has a lot of explaining to do. (He was only in Atlanta briefly to board a flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina where he hooked up with the love of his life -- his mistress!!!)



P.S. -- This is hilarious and it's from The Christian Science Monitor of all places:

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (not pictured) seemed to have disappeared over the last few days. After causing an uproar, his spokesman finally divulged that Sanford has been hiking the Appalachian Trail. Coincidentally, one of the days he was hiking was also Naked Hiking Day. The annual event is celebrated on the first day of summer.

I love the "not pictured" comment.

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This is getting ridiculous!

Governor Sanford's office said that the federal law enforcement officer who saw the governor's state-owned SUV (with the parking sticker of his sons' private school on it) parked at the Atlanta Columbia, SC airport's parking lot was mistaken.

Somebody is lying! Is it the federal law enforcement officer who would be putting his job in jeopardy or is it the governor's staff that has been lying consistently -- or inconsistently -- through this whole bizarre episode?

I've got my money on the federal law enforcement officer being correct. I'm willing to bet you any amount of money that he's telling the truth and the governor's staff is lying, as usual.

Governor Sanford is NOT hiking alone on the Appalachian Trail. That's the dumbest cover story I have ever heard.

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It Takes Two to Tango!

Don't cry for me, South Carolina; the truth is I was in Argentina!

Another Goppie hypocrite bites the dust!!!

Governor Sanford was in Buenos Aires with his mistress!!!

The extra-marital affair has been going on for about a year and his wife, Jenny, knew about it for the past five months, because that's when he told her about it. So poor Jenny was lying to protect her husband's career and her family's dignity, what's left of it after this complete scumbag abandoned his four sons on Father's Day to be with his mistress.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, apologized in a rambling news conference on Wednesday for having an extra-marital affair with a woman in Argentina, ending a mystery over his week-long disappearance that had infuriated lawmakers and seemed to put his rising political career in jeopardy.

Governor Sanford admitted he had been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since Thursday, not hiking on the Appalachian Trail as he told his staff. In revealing an affair that had gone on for about a year — and which he had disclosed to his wife, Jenny, five months ago, he said: “This was selfishness on my part.”

Mr. Sanford announced on Wednesday that he was resigning his position as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Here.

Too bad he's not still a member of Congress. I'm sure they would have given him an exceptionally loud, standing ovation -- bonus points for having a mistress in Buenos Aires.

"It is my personal view that the largest proclamation of one's faith ought to be in how one lives one's life." -- Gov. Mark Sanford, June 2008.

As a congressman, Sanford voted to impeach Bill Clinton. Like John Ensign, he publicly called on Clinton to resign from the presidency for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Poor Goppies! When it rains, it pours!

I wonder if this guy is a member of Promise Keepers? :eek3:



P.S. -- Shortly after Sanford's announcement, Democratic Governors Association Executive Director Nathan Daschle issued a statement saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with Gov. Sanford and his family, and I wish them the best as they try to heal this wound."

Oh, cool!!! Rub it in. I love the "heal this wound" part.

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What's Next for "Family Values" Goppie Hero?

Well, let's see. How about asking how many times he has "disappeared" without informing the Lieutenant Governor that he was going away and would be out of reach? What if there was an emergency in his absence?

He said this affair began about a year ago. Let's check his travel schedule and see if he has used state money to travel out of the country to meet his mistress. If he ever charged the airline tickets for any of his trips to Buenos Aires to the state, he's toast. He will almost certainly be forced to resign.

Even if he had his mistress meet him in some other country (like maybe Brazil), people will claim that the real purpose of the trip was to hook up with her. If he charged any of these travel expenses to the state, he will have to reimburse the state and his chances of finishing out his term as governor are slim to none.

I wonder how long it will take the reporters to investigate this? Probably not very long.

Adios, Goppie "Family Values" Rising Star.

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The Luv Guv

Maria! I've just met a girl named Maria, and suddenly that name, will never be the same, to me! Maria!


Following is just an excerpt from just one email from Mark Sanford to his mistress last year!

From Gov. Sanford,
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 12:24 a.m.

“One, tomorrow leave at 5 a.m. for New York and meetings. Will think about you on its streets and wish I was going to be there later in the month when you are there. Tomorrow night back to Philadelphia for the start of the National Governor's Conference through the weekend. Back to Columbia for Tuesday and then on Wednesday, as I think I had told you, taking the family to China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Thailand and then back through Hong Kong on world wind tour. Few days home then to Bahamas for 5 days on a friend’s boat for the last break of the summer. The following weekend have been asked to spend it out in Aspen, Colorado with McCain - which has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home ...

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 ...

Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true - at the same time we are in a hopelessly - or as you put it impossible - or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes ...

Lastly 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.”

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Email from Maria (mistress) to The Luv Guv

"You are my love ... something hard to believe even for myself as it's also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation," she wrote. "Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen ... I can't redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you."

That's an excerpt from an email to Gov. Mark Sanford from his mistress way back in July 2008. The State newspaper in South Carolina has had these since December 2008 but they weren't sure of their authenticity, so they waited until they could trap the governor in some of his lies.

When he disappeared on his "hiking trip along the Appalachian Trail," they smelled at rat so they staked out the Columbia airport AND the Atlanta airport. The found his state-owned SUV parked at the Columbia airport and they confronted the governor as he arrived on a flight from Buenos Aires at the Atlanta airport.

In a brief interview with The State's reporter at the Atlanta airport, Sanford lied and claimed that he had spent his time alone in Argentina hiking the extreme southern end of the Appalachian Trail driving along the coast. Yeah, right!

The reporter who interviewed him at the Atlanta airport did not let on that she knew about the emails. She let him lie his ass off. A couple of hours later, after she called her office with her report, the paper's editor notified Sanford's staff that they were in possession of the emails and intended to publish them.

He told The State's reporter he was planning on hiking the Appalachian Trail and that's where he told his office he would be, but at the last minute he decided he wanted to experience something "more exotic," which is why he flew to Argentina alone to spend some time alone driving along the coast of Argentina alone. Haha! Did he really believe the reporter was buying that story?

His little trip to Argentina turned out to be more "exotic" than he anticipated.

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FOX News Misidentified Sanford as a Democrat



They do this every time a Goppie hypocrite is caught with his pants down. They change his political party affiliation to (D) because they figure their dumb-as-dirt wing-nut audience will fall for it.

They did it with both Mark Foley and Larry Craig. It's deliberate!



P.S. -- And when FOX News had on Democratic consultant Michael Brown recently, they misidentified him as "FEMA Director, 2003-2005." I guess they wanted their dumb viewers to think that the FEMA director who screwed up Hurricane Katrina was a Democrat. They did this in spite of the fact that Michael Brown, Democratic consultant, is an African-American. The much more famous Michael "Heck of a Job, Brownie" Brown is a white Republican who ran an Arabian horse show before Bush named him to be FEMA Director.

And they have constantly claimed that Obama "bailed out the banks and AIG." It was George W. Bush who bailed out the banks and AIG in November 2008, two months before Obama took office. In fact, AIG was bailed out separately before the Bush administration's $750 billion TARP fund bill was even passed. The $787 billion stimulus package belongs to the Obama administration. The $750 billion TARP fund that bailed out the banks is a Bush administration program.

At the end of this month, all US combat troops in Iraq are scheduled to withdraw from Iraqi cities to their bases and only come out if their assistance is requested by the Iraqi government. That's the agreement George W. Bush made with the Iraqi government before Obama took office. Watch FOX News call it Obama's withdrawal. They know their viewers are too stupid to know any better since they get all their "news" from FOX.

Here is a perfect example of just how stupid FOX News thinks their viewers really are: Watch this video clip.

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Memorable Mark Sanford Quotes

Here's Sanford in 1998 on Bill Clinton's cheating: "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone."

Here's Sanford in 1998 on ex-GOP Rep. Bill Livingston, who revealed that he strayed from his marriage: "The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it's got to be taken very, very seriously.

And Sanford has fought to have the Ten Commandments publicly displayed, including Commandment No. 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Here's Sanford committing adultery: "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."

Just another bible-thumping Goppie hypocrite. A couple of online sites are running some of his campaign ads from his first campaign for governor and they're just like little David Vitter's ads. All about "Christian family values," with his kids playing on the lawn of the family's expansive estate. He used the phrase "Christian values" in virtually every ad.

Sanford has repeatedly pushed for teacher-led prayer in public schools and for displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, yet he turned down $700 million in stimulus money for his state's public schools. That decision was overturned by the state's supreme court. Sanford's own children attend an expensive private school.

Mark Sanford's definition of marriage: Marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman in Argentina.

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Sanford Will Reimburse State for Some Travel Expenses

Gov. Mark Sanford will reimburse the state of South Carolina for the Buenos Aires leg of a trip sponsored by the Commerce Department last June to drum up business for South Carolina. Buenos Aires was not even on the original itinerary before Sanford convinced them to add a stop in Buenos Aires to a trip planned to Brazil. He said at the time that it was because Buenos Aires is such a beautiful city. He now admits it was because he wanted to hook up with his mistress, Maria Belen Chapur.

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Why Couldn't the State Police Track His SUV?

The state-owned black SUV that is assigned to Gov. Mark Sanford's security detail is equipped with a tracking device to enable the state police to locate it at any time.

Sanford drove that SUV to the Columbia airport where he left it in the airport's parking lot. The reason the state police were unable to locate the SUV is because "someone" deactivated the tracking device. The state police said they aren't saying the governor deactivated the device or even that he knew the vehicle was equipped with such a device, they're just saying "someone deactivated it."

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10-Day AWOL Planned

Gov. Mark Sanford booked his trip on Delta Airlines on June 10 using his SkyMiles. He bought a ticket for June 18, returning on June 28.

So he was intending to be gone for 10 days, not just 5 days!!!

How can the governor of a state disappear for 10 days without informing the state's lieutenant governor that he will be gone and unavailable in the event of an emergency?

He spent his time in Buenos Aires in Palermo, a fashionable residential neighborhood, where he was reportedly spotted at the local bar, Guido's, with his mistress, Maria Belen Chapur.



P.S. -- When Sanford said that he was planning on taking a hike along the Appalachian Trail and changed his mind at the last minute, deciding to go to Buenos Aires instead, that was a complete fabrication. He did load the back of the SUV with hiking gear to throw people off but he had purchased his plane ticket to Buenos Aires ten days earlier. And then "someone" deactivated the tracking device on his SUV.

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Mystery Solved

Now we know who sent copies of those steamy emails to The State newspaper in Columbia, SC.

Last December, the executive said, Ms. Chapur was dating a young Argentine a few months after her affair with Mr. Sanford began. The man happened to see the e-mail messages being exchanged between the governor and Ms. Chapur, said the executive — who said he had direct knowledge of the situation — and hacked into her e-mail account to see the rest.

Infuriated, the man sent the messages to The State, the newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia.

When she found out, the executive said, Ms. Chapur immediately ended the relationship with the man, whose identity has not been disclosed.

Here.

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Invitation Withdrawn

Gov. Mark Sanford is no longer listed as one of the featured speakers at the Values Voter Summit in September.

His photo suddenly disappeared. No explanation was given. Maybe he plans to go hiking on the Appalachian Trail instead?

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Sanford Quotes the Bible, Comparing Himself to King David

You have to give it to these so-called Christian conservatives; they'll throw the Bible at you to excuse whatever it is they want to justify. Creepy Gov. Mark Sanford says he won't resign because King David didn't resign over Bathsheba.

"I remain committed to rebuilding the trust that has been committed to me over the next 18 months, and it is my hope that I am able to follow the example set by David in the Bible - who after his fall from grace humbly refocused on the work at hand. By doing so, I will ultimately better serve in every area of my life, and I am committed to doing so."

If he reads a little further, he will find that King Solomon, the son of David and Bathsheba, had 700 wives and 300 concubines (a total of 1,000 vaginas because the Bible likes round numbers), so that will give Sanford biblical cover for another 299 mistresses and an endless supply of wives.

I'm not sure exactly how many wives and concubines David had (quite a few to be sure) but I don't think it was anywhere near as many as his son Solomon. Mark Sanford compares himself favorably to David, I hope he doesn't emulate eveything David did, like having Bathsheba's husband killed in battle so that he could take her for a wife. David had several wives and mistresses, so I'm sure Sanford likes that idea since David's idea of "traditional marriage" fits in with Sanford's.



P.S. -- Even when they are guilty of "a very serious sin," as little David Vitter calls it, they still try to play the holier-than-thou card. He even had the tears running down his cheeks a la Jimmy Swaggart at his press conference confessing his marital infidelity. He didn't even get around to saying what exactly it was that he was apologizing for until after the first seven minutes. That was a tour de force disaster of a press conference. He sounded like he was on acid.

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"It's hard to find out your husband is not who you thought he was."

S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford tells all in revealing AP interview.

Mrs. Sanford: "He was told in no uncertain terms not to see her."

How did she find out about the affair? She came across a copy of a letter from her husband to his mistress in January of this year. She gave him an ultimatum: stop the affair immediately or their marriage was over. He repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his infidelity.

"I said absolutely not. It's one thing to forgive adultery; it's another thing to condone it."

Where did she think he had gone last week? She thought he had gone hiking on the Appalachian Trail, which is what he told her.

"I had every hope he was not going to see her. You would think that a father who didn't have contact with his children, if he wanted those children, he would toe the line a little bit."

He deserted his four sons on Father's Day to be with his lover. Goppie "family values" in action.

You can read the entire article here.

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Sanford Is Toast

I don't see how Gov. Sanford can survive in office after that very honest interview his wife gave to the Associated Press. She called him what he is, a lying scumbag who cares little for his four sons or his wife.

He lied to her, telling her he was going to hike the Appalachian Trail, when he was really partying it up with his lover at Guido's bar in Buenos Aires.

What's a married father of four doing bar-hopping with his mistress on Father's Day?

As much as I would love to see Sanford hang in there and refuse to resign, I don't think he can last. I'm afraid the South Carolina Republican Party is going to demand his resignation. It would be great if they do and then he still refuses to go quietly. That would really, really help.

Here's hoping Sanford decides to hang in there for at least another six months, maybe longer.

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Sanctity of Marriage (Cont'd.):

After his wife told him in no uncertain terms to NOT see his mistress again if he wanted to preserve the "sanctity" of his marriage, the lying scumbag saw her at least seven times: five romantic visits in New York, plus one New York encounter that was supposed to end the affair, plus the reunion in Buenos Aires last week that was planned to last ten days.

In a lengthy and emotional interview with The Associated Press in his Statehouse office, the governor described five meetings with Maria Belen Chapur over the past year, including two romantic, multi-night stays with her in New York before they met there again intending to break up.

So his tearful confession last week was incomplete. Turns out he lied last week about the number of times he has been with his lover in the past year.

His biggest problem, as far as I can see it, in keeping his job is that he left the country for what was intended to be a ten-day absence without informing the lieutenant governor, or even his own staff, that he was going to be out of the country. He deliberately lied to his staff, he deactivated the tracking device on the state-owned SUV that he drove to the Columbia airport and he turned off his two cell phones in Atlanta before boarding the Delta flight to Buenos Aires.

His second biggest problem is that he is the guy who insisted that the trade junket to Brazil be extended to include a stop in Buenos Aires even though the Bush adminstration at the time was asking that no one do any business with the Argentinian regime. He has now said that he will reimburse the state of North Carolina for the Argentinian leg of the trip.

The derelection in the performance of his official duties as governor of the state is the most serious violation. The extra-marital affair is really a private matter between him and his wife but because of his constant pontificating about preserving "Christian family values" during his campaign, this is the issue that is getting the most media attention.

What is amazing is how all the holier-than-thou Goppie hypocrites can continue their bible-thumping while they are humping their mistresses. The best example of that is Newt Gingrich's ranting about Bill Clinton's infidelity in the Oval Office while he himself was banging a much younger staffer of his own, who would later become his third wife. Like Rudy Giuliani, Gingrich has cheated on all of his wives with his future wives, plus assorted girlfriends who did not end up married to him. Giuliani's notorious affairs were "well documented" (words used in the divorce petition filed by his second wife). And when he ended an affair, he found a $250,000/year government job for his ex-girlfriend to get her out of city hall. And following that affair, he had the well documented affair with the future third Mrs. Giuliani while still married to his second wife.

It is amazing to me how the Republican party can consistently excuse rampant marital infiedlity in their so-called leaders while ranting and raving about gay marriage destroying "traditional marriage." I think they're doing a good enough job of destroying "traditional marriage" without any outside help. They're all a bunch of lying hypocrites. John McCain was banking his future second wife while he was still married to his first wife. Sarah Palin was knocked up when she and Todd eloped. Her first child, Track, was born seven months and three weeks later and he was a full-term baby.

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Sanford Says Mistress Is His 'Soul Mate'

If you thought Mark Sanford couldn't possibly give a more embarrassing public confession that last Friday's press conference, think again. In a three-hour long Associated Press interview today he admitted that he hooked up with his mistress on at least five occasions in the past 12 months, including a couple of multi-night rendezvous in New York.

This was a "love story" Sanford told the astonished reporter. Maria Belén Chapur is his "soul mate" but he will "try to fall back in love with [his] wife."

South Carolina's attorney general has asked the state police to check Sanford's travel records to see if the state paid for any of his trips to visit his "soul mate."

Meanwhile, André Bauer, South Carolina's 40-year-old, never married, lieutenant governor wants to assure everyone that he is not gay. He said he just wanted to get that out of the way in case anybody was wondering.

Just because he has never been married and just because he decorated his own condo and just because he has a gay-sounding first name and just because he looks like a younger version of Charlie Crist, that doesn't mean he is gay because the answer is "No," in case you were worried about that.