Di politician n him dash fi di borda...if a laff

[Marilyn]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">«Top News

South Carolina Governor Sanford admits extramarital affair
Wed, Jun 24 19:29 PM EDT



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By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford tearfully admitted on Wednesday he had been unfaithful to his wife, likely ending any chance he might be a Republican contender for the U.S. presidency in 2012.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"> I thought messing off was a prerequisite to becoming President in the US </span>

Sanford resigned as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association and was replaced by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, another possible 2012 candidate.

&quot;Any aspirations for 2012, if he had any, are certainly out of the question,&quot; said Robert Oldendick, a political scientist at the University of South Carolina.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Cool, now he and John Edwards can do lunch. </span>

Sanford's confession at a tumultuous news conference ended days of speculation over his whereabouts. After he disappeared last week, his staff first said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. It later emerged he had traveled to Argentina to be with his lover, leaving his family over Father's Day weekend.

<span style="font-size: 11pt"> Wonder where he told them he was the other times he went to Argentina. He even went so far as the fill the car with hiking gear.</span>

&quot;I spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina,&quot; he said.
<span style="font-size: 14pt"> Uh oh ...wha hoppen....buddy boy give out? </span>

Shedding tears, Sanford apologized to his wife Jenny, his family, friends and staff when he made the shock announcement after returning on Wednesday from Buenos Aires.

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Ah the classic pattern define/admit what you did, take responsibility for your actions, apologize to all injured parties, shed two or three prerequiste tears, lay low, re-emerge a new and improved model </span>

Sanford's wife Jenny said she and her husband had been undergoing a trial separation and she regretted his actions and the damage it had done to their children.

But she added in a statement: &quot;I remain willing to forgive Mark completely his indiscretions and to welcome him back.&quot;
<span style="font-size: 14pt"> This would be BEFORE the emails were published.</span>
Sanford explained how he had &quot;developed a relationship&quot; with a &quot;dear friend&quot; from Argentina. &quot;It began very innocently ... in just a casual e-mail back and forth,&quot; he said.
<span style="font-size: 11pt">Translation---they met on the internet </span>

&quot;But here recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that. And as a consequence, I hurt her. I hurt you all. I hurt my wife. I hurt my boys. I hurt friends ... I hurt a lot of different folks.&quot;

With his tearful admission and groveling apologies, Sanford became the latest member of a fast-growing club of U.S. politicians who have confessed their sexual indiscretions before a public audience.

Sanford was one of several Republican governors seen as possible 2012 presidential candidates. Others include Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

REPUBLICAN FORTUNES AT LOW EBB

As chairman of the governors' association Sanford has been one of the party's most visible spokesmen when its fortunes are at a low ebb.

Last week, Senator John Ensign, another potential Republican presidential contender in 2012, announced he had an affair and resigned from the Senate leadership.

Apologizing for his &quot;selfishness,&quot; Sanford asked for &quot;a zone of privacy&quot; for his wife and their four sons.

He did not identify the woman in the affair, whom he said was separated from her husband and had two boys.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham offered his support to his fellow Republican: &quot;I hope Mark will reconcile with his family and can continue serving as governor,&quot; he said in a statement. Sanford's final term as governor ends in 2011.

But raising pressure on Sanford, The State, South Carolina's main newspaper, published excerpts of e-mails it said were between the governor and the woman in which he professed love for her. Sanford's office did not dispute the authenticity of the e-mails, the newspaper said.

Sanford wrote in passionate terms to his lover, describing the physical and intellectual delight he found with her.

When U.S. media reported Sanford's whereabouts were unknown since last Thursday, and that even his wife did not know where he was, his aides had said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail in the eastern United States.

They said he needed a break after a tough state legislative session. During his absence, some South Carolina politicians accused him of abdicating responsibility in state affairs.

Sanford flew back from Argentina to Atlanta early on Wednesday. He initially told a reporter he had changed earlier plans and decided at the last minute to go to Argentina and drive along its coastline.

Sanford gained prominence this year by opposing Democratic President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill and rejecting $700 million of South Carolina's portion of the funds on grounds it would undermine the state's fiscal stability.

The state's Supreme Court ruled this month that the federal cash must be accepted.

(Additional reporting by Andy Sullivan in Washington, Jane Sutton, Pascal Fletcher in Miami, Editing by Alan Elsner)
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[Tuff Gong]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Inglis to GOP: ‘Lose Stinking Rot of Self-Righteousness’</span>

Jonathan Weisman reports on politics.

South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis made a name for himself in the late 1990s as one of Bill Clinton’s most zealous pursuers, an impeachment “manager” who attacked the moral failings of the president with a gusto that earned him a devoted following in the staunchly conservative “Upstate” of conservative South Carolina.

But with his governor now felled by similar temptations, Inglis sees an opening for the Republican Party, a chance to “lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness” and “to understand we are all in need of some grace.”

This is not “Bob Inglis 1.0,” the one that was a “self-righteous” expletive, he said in an interview with Washington Wire today. It is a Bob Inglis that is, if anything, more Christian, more attuned to the Gospels, he said.

His last conversation with Gov. Mark Sanford was about the hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus money that the uncompromising governor was trying to refuse for his impoverished state. Inglis had voted against President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill, ardently, he said.

But he said he told the governor, now that it was approved, “for goodness sake, take the money.” It might just help.

Indeed, Sanford’s political fall could be a saving grace for what remains of his governorship, Inglis suggested. “This may be an opportunity to extend a little grace to other people, to realize that maybe it’s not 100% this way or that way,” Inglis said.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Inglis to GOP: ‘Lose Stinking Rot of Self-Righteousness’</span>

Jonathan Weisman reports on politics.

South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis made a name for himself in the late 1990s as one of Bill Clinton’s most zealous pursuers, an impeachment “manager” who attacked the moral failings of the president with a gusto that earned him a devoted following in the staunchly conservative “Upstate” of conservative South Carolina.

But with his governor now felled by similar temptations, Inglis sees an opening for the Republican Party, a chance to “lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness” and “to understand we are all in need of some grace.”

This is not “Bob Inglis 1.0,” the one that was a “self-righteous” expletive, he said in an interview with Washington Wire today. It is a Bob Inglis that is, if anything, more Christian, more attuned to the Gospels, he said.

His last conversation with Gov. Mark Sanford was about the hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus money that the uncompromising governor was trying to refuse for his impoverished state. Inglis had voted against President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill, ardently, he said.

But he said he told the governor, now that it was approved, “for goodness sake, take the money.” It might just help.

Indeed, Sanford’s political fall could be a saving grace for what remains of his governorship, Inglis suggested. “This may be an opportunity to extend a little grace to other people, to realize that maybe it’s not 100% this way or that way,” Inglis said.
</div></div>The GOP spinmasters are working overtime at wigglongout if this one too.. Well?? There will be another one and anotheer one abd another... ad infinitum. The oarty is just as corrupt as theycanget. The only thing that has bee saving them from public view, was their control of bully pulpit of the media and the <span style="font-size: 20pt"> funding fathers. </span> Just give tim e a break and we will be reading about another one of their hidden gems.

[mountaingal]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

dang! think i'm falling in love with this silver tongued brute.

excerpts from his emails to Maria:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the background, the tranquility that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds — and getting to build something with each scoop of dirt. It is admittedly weird but one of my more favorite ways of escaping the norms, constant phone calls and formalities that go with the office — and it probably fits with my weakness in doing rather than being — though you opened up a new chapter last week wherein I was happy and content just being.</div></div>


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have been specializing in staying focused on decisions and actions of the head for a long time now — and you have my heart. You have oh so many attributes that pulls it in this direction. Do you really comprehend how beautiful your smile is? Have you been told lately how warm your eyes are and how they softly glow with the special nature of your soul. I remember Jenny, <span style="font-weight: bold">[ no im wife dis?]</span>or someone close to me, once commenting that while my mom was pleasant and warm it was sad she had never accomplished anything of significance. I replied that they were wrong because she had <span style="font-weight: bold">the ultimate of all gifts — and that was the ability to love unconditionally. The rarest of all commodities in this world is love. </span>It is that thing that we all yearn for at some level — to be simply loved unconditionally for nothing more than who we are — not what we can get, give or become.

There are but 50 governors in my country and outside of the top spot, this is as high as you can go in the area I have invested the last 15 years of my life — my getting here came as no small measure because I had that foundation of love and support so critical to getting up in the morning and feeling you could give and risk because you already had a full tank of love in the emotional bank account. Since our first meeting there in a wind swept Above all else I love that inner beauty about you. That gift of yours is going to make a tremendous difference in (The State deleted sons’ names) life — and in anyone’s life who is blest to be touched by yours — you need to rest very comfortably in that fact.

As I mentioned in our last visit, while I did not need love fifteen years ago — as the battle scars of life and aging and politics have worn on this has become a real need of mine. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that is so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night’s light — but hey, that would be going into the sexual details we spoke of at the steakhouse at dinner — and unlike you I would never do that!</div></div>


more, including Maria's replies, yasso

is it better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all?

[Marilyn]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

Tell her to marry him and all of this curve and tan line worshipping and going on and on about her smile

<span style="font-size: 20pt">WILL STOP...TRUS ME </span>

[Tuff Gong]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

So take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Say I won't be coming home, gonna start a new life
So take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta start a new life

You've been many things but most of all a good secretary to me
And it's times like this I feel you've always been close to me
Was I wrong to work nights to try to build a good life
All work and no play has just cost me a wife

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Greaves, R.B - Take a Letter, Maria Lyrics</span>

[Tony_Royal]

Re: so wifie a stand by har man...if him want har

mmmmmm. Did he went to look for a woman or did he went to look for a man?

[evanovitch]

Governor Hit the Bar with the Mistress

TMZ

We've been on the hunt in Buenos Aires, Argentina and found the bar where Governor Mark Sanford brought his mistress -- so how do you say PDA in Spanish?

Carlos Soto, the owner of Guido's Bar, says he's seen Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur there several times over the last few months -- most recently last week.

Soto says they were &quot;all over each other&quot; last week in his bar, &quot;kissing, holding hands and drinking wine.&quot;

<span style="font-weight: bold">Soto was impressed with Maria, saying she has &quot;un cuerpazo'&quot; -- translation: a banging body</span>.

<span style="font-style: italic">Soto also said Maria has green eyes and dirty blonde hair</span>.

[evanovitch]

SC governor's little lie masks a much bigger one

SC governor's little lie masks a much bigger one

By ALLEN G. BREED
The Associated Press
Thursday, June 25, 2009; 3:04 PM

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Six bronze stars punctuate the smooth granite walls of the copper-domed State House. Each marks a scar left by the cannons of invading Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's bombardment of the capital in the final months of the Civil War.

By last Thursday, Gov. Mark Sanford was feeling much like the building in which he had held sway for the past seven years - battered and bruised.

Two days earlier, on June 16, an override of Sanford's veto of new regulations on the payday lending industry capped what had been an especially grueling legislative session. Earlier in the month, he had lost a court battle over what he thought was a state's right to refuse $700 million in federal stimulus money.

To friends and aides, it was clear the governor needed a break.

That Thursday afternoon, a black Chevy Suburban outfitted with blue police lights pulled up outside the governor's mansion - a white stucco antebellum building with a low parapet that once served as the officers' quarters for the Arsenal Military Academy. Into the back seat, Sanford tossed a sleeping bag, a pair of running shoes, a ball cap, a canvas bag and a pair of green hiking shorts.


Sanford was an Eagle Scout. So when he made a vague reference to staff about hiking on the Appalachian Trail, no one had reason to doubt him.

But if the governor were really going hiking, why would he need his passport?

<span style="font-weight: bold">In truth, Sanford had already strayed from the path. <span style="font-style: italic">The hiking story was just the latest little lie in a yearlong campaign to cover up an even bigger one</span></span>.


Marshall C. Sanford Jr. is about as lame as a lame-duck governor can be. Term-limited and marginalized by opponents within his own party, the 49-year-old Republican was essentially waiting out his last 18 months in office as people speculated about his presidential prospects in 2012.

Sanford had been known to take off after a legislative session, to decompress and escape what he calls &quot;the bubble&quot; of life in the capital. So it wasn't surprising that it took until Monday for his absence to become conspicuous.

That morning, a source suggested that an Associated Press reporter call Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts and ask about the governor's whereabouts. Knotts told the AP that no one had seen or heard from Sanford since the previous Thursday.

That afternoon, the AP asked Sanford's staff if anyone had heard from the governor. The answer was no.

No phone calls.

No e-mails.

No text messages.

Around 1 p.m., the AP called Jenny Sanford, the governor's wife of nearly 20 years and the force behind most of his congressional and gubernatorial campaigns.

&quot;He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids,&quot; she said from the family's beach house on Sullivan's Island.

Mrs. Sanford said she had no idea where her husband was, but insisted that she was unconcerned. Others did not share her sentiments.

In response to media inquiries, Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer released a statement.


&quot;Gov. Sanford is taking some time away from the office this week to recharge after the stimulus battle and the legislative session, and to work on a couple of projects that have fallen by the wayside,&quot; read the statement, sent around 2:30 p.m. &quot;We are not going to discuss the specifics of his travel arrangements or his security arrangements.&quot;

Later that day, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer's office said Sanford's staff claimed the governor had been in contact with chief of staff Scott English. But the governor's office backtracked on that, saying there had been no communication.

&quot;I cannot take lightly that his staff has not had communication with him for more than four days, and that no one, including his own family, knows his whereabouts,&quot; said Bauer, a Republican whose relationship with Sanford is generally cool, but who has been spare in his criticism of the governor during their two terms in office together.

To some, leaving the state essentially rudderless was not the worst part of it. A man who seemed to always put family first had been absent from sons Marshall, Landon, Bolton and Blake on Father's Day.

&quot;It's one thing for the boys to go off by themselves, but on Father's Day to leave your family behind? That's erratic,&quot; said Senate Minority Leader John Land, a Democrat.

Things seemed to abate Monday night when Sawyer said the governor was hiking the Appalachian Trail. But the quiet didn't last long.

Around 9:30 Tuesday morning, Sawyer issued another statement to the AP. He said that Sanford had called English to check in.

&quot;<span style="font-weight: bold">It would be fair to say the governor was somewhat taken aback by all of the interest this trip has gotten</span>,&quot; Sawyer wrote. &quot;Given the circumstances and the attention this has garnered, the governor communicated to us that he plans on returning to the office tomorrow.&quot;

According to Sawyer, Sanford still did not divulge where he had been, and no one asked. But it soon became clear that he had not been hiking.

Around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, CNN's Political Ticker reported that the black Suburban had been found in a parking lot at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, the camping gear still inside.

At 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, Gina Smith, a reporter from The State newspaper, was standing in the waiting area at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Since December, the Columbia newspaper had been sitting on a stack of e-mails, which it says were sent anonymously. They were purportedly personal correspondence between Sanford and a woman in Argentina named &quot;Maria.&quot;

&quot;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,&quot; one message from Sanford, dated July 9, read. &quot;Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen. ... I can't redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you.&quot;

<span style="font-weight: bold">The paper then received an anonymous tip that Sanford had been spotted on a flight to Buenos Aires, but had no idea when he might be returning. <span style="font-style: italic">Acting on a hunch, Smith staked out the airport</span>. </span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">She was craning her neck, squinting as she scanned the crowd.</span> When she spotted Sanford, any doubts Smith might have had about the e-mails' authenticity seemed to evaporate.

The tip was so sketchy that the paper had decided not to send a photographer with Smith. Acting reflexively, she snapped a quick photo with her digital camera, then called out to Sanford.

&quot;<span style="font-style: italic">Governor!&quot; she shouted. &quot;Everybody's been worried about where you've been. ... Have you been on the Appalachian Trail?&quot; </span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">Clearly flummoxed</span>, the governor invited Smith to sit down with him in the waiting area. According to Smith, a visibly deflated Sanford gazed absently into the distance, his mouth opening, then closing, as if he were at a loss for words.

Sanford acknowledged that while he had planned to go hiking, he had actually been to Argentina. Then, in what now appears to have been a last, desperate attempt to delay the inevitable, the governor launched into a ramble about other &quot;adventure trips&quot; he had taken to Turkey, Greece and other parts of South America.

<span style="font-style: italic">Smith asked whether Sanford had been alone in Buenos Aires</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold">Yes,</span> <span style="font-style: italic">he replied. </span>

When she pushed the issue, Sanford abruptly ended the interview and left.

About four hours later, Sanford's office announced that he would be holding a press conference at 2 p.m. beneath the vaulted brick ceiling in the Doric-columned lower lobby of the State House, just feet from the governor's suite.

Starting a half-hour late, Sanford hemmed and hawed for several minutes, as he had done that morning with Smith.

&quot;I guess where I'm trying to go with this is there are moral absolutes, and that God's law indeed is there to protect you from yourself,&quot; he told the stunned assembly. &quot;And there are consequences if you breach that.

&quot;This press conference is a consequence.&quot;

---

Whether Sanford has come clean with the whole truth remains to be seen. If any of his staff, family or confidantes really knew where he was during his lost week, none is talking.

Former aide Tom Davis - who stood beside Sanford during the news conference and whom Sanford singled out for a special apology - told CBS News Thursday morning that he had no idea about the affair or the trip to Argentina.

&quot;The 30 years I've known Mark Sanford,&quot; he said, &quot;this blew me away.&quot;

<span style="font-weight: bold">At his news conference, Sanford also singled out longtime friend and spiritual counselor Warren &quot;Cubby&quot; Culbertson.</span>

Standing outside his Columbia home, Culbertson declined to tell the AP whether he knew of Sanford's South America trip. <span style="font-weight: bold">He did say that Sanford called him some time ago for advice, and that &quot;we've been kind of walking down this road together since then.&quot; </span>

<span style="font-style: italic">Whatever lies Sanford told along the way, Culbertson said he is confident his friend &quot;is going to try to change.&quot; </span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;There's an element of darkness out there that's undeniable,&quot; Culbertson said. &quot;And it's bigger than us.&quot; </span>

<span style="font-style: italic">a weh him a seh..di devil made him dweet</span>?

[evanovitch]

Rush's take on the drama

<span style="font-weight: bold">Sanford Could Have Been Our JFK </span>

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT


<span style="font-weight: bold">RUSH:</span> Well, I've been monitoring Governor Mark Sanford's press conference here, folks. I guess we've learned something. Republicans like sex, too. Up 'til now that's been debatable. Republicans are these church going, moralistic no-fun-in-life kind of people according to the libs. Mark Sanford developed, what did he say,<span style="font-weight: bold"> an e-mail friendship, started innocently</span>, the girl from Ipanema. He went down to Argentina to see the girl from Ipanema. He could have flown her in. This is, if he's going to do this -- but for crying out loud, folks, this is inexplicable. You are married. You are a governor. Father's Day weekend hits. You drive your SUV to the airport in Atlanta alone, you get on a plane, go visit the girl from Ipanema, the word gets out you're walking the Appalachian trail, the wife defends him, oh, yeah, he's out there writing, he's doing some stuff. At what point does your brain shut off? This is inexplicable. It's inexplicable. This is, whatever, the power of lust?

<span style="font-style: italic">I've said over the years that lust is the one human emotion over which you have no control. It can make you do things that in your sane moments you would never do. And we're looking at an example of it here. Well, love, people in lust think they're in love. This is the kind of stuff that addicts do. Never going to get caught, never going to happen and so forth. You marvel at this. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold">But I'll tell you what. If he were a Democrat it would be a resume enhancement. It has been a resume enhancement for many years, if he were a Democrat,</span> James Carville and Paul Begala would be out attacking this woman today. We'd find out who she was, she'd be plastered all over as trailer trash. You know what, I don't blame the wife not standing there. That's always rubbed me the wrong way, these politicians go out and do this stuff and their wives dutifully stand there, she's not there. Mark Sanford, I mean I've met him, I met him at a wedding in South Carolina and he was very nice. He did say, by the way, he thought it was crazy for me to say I hope Obama fails.

Oh, speaking of that, the RNC put out some release yesterday about how Obama's agenda is collapsing on him. Did you see that? I guess the RNC says Obama's failing. Remember all that grief I caught from all these Republicans for saying that? Now the RNC is putting out gleeful press releases about Obama's agenda collapsing on him. Okay, I found that story with the Congressional Black Caucus reference. It's the climate change vote. It's from TheHill.com. It was published yesterday. &quot;Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is moving forward with a floor vote on climate change legislation this week even though many Democrats are undecided,&quot; although they did turn eight Democrats in favor of it. By the way, you Democrats that have changed your mind on this, you have guaranteed a no vote, you've guaranteed your loss. You are not going to be reelected in 2010. Anybody who votes for this thing is guaranteed not to be -- well, moderate, conservative so-called Democrats.


BREAK TRANSCRIPT

<span style="font-weight: bold">RUSH</span>: We are just here commenting amongst ourselves, ladies and gentlemen. When these Republican guys... I mean, nobody caught him. Nobody caught him in the act. He came back, &quot;Yeah, I was screwing off -- literally! -- south of the border with the girl from Ipanema.&quot; He comes back and admits it. <span style="font-weight: bold">No wife standing there</span>. John Ensign last week or whatever it was, the Senator from Nevada, <span style="font-weight: bold">his wife wasn't standing there.</span> <span style="font-style: italic">But when these Democrats go up there </span>their wives are dutifully in a blue dress. Remember Eliot Spitzer and his wife Silda was there? It didn't help much, but we're just remarking on this. And, of course, it reminds us of these big differences. Here's Kyra Phillips. She's the CNN infobabe that had a cow here a moment ago.

<span style="font-weight: bold">PHILLIPS</span>: I don't even know where to begin. I'm, uhhh, feeling, uhhh, pretty biased (snickering) in so many ways on this. You know, I guess we should just try and stick to the, uh, uh, reason why we're covering this. Ummm, and not get a little derailed, but, uh, put this into perspective. You know, governor cheats on his wife, lies to his staff -- leaves his state, uhhh, you know, in the lurch, with no constit...contingency plans. Uhhh, you know? Once again, all about him and selfishness and his love life.

<span style="font-weight: bold">RUSH:</span> Kyra? Kyra? Kyra? Have you not seen this behavior before? His name is Bill Clinton. Did you not probably defend this behavior before? Didn't you say it doesn't affect his business? He's doing his work. It's just sex! It was just sex. Come on, Kyra. By the way, another sign to put on your TV if you're going to watch the Obama infomercial tonight on ABC: &quot;Free Breast Implants?&quot; with a question mark. Either put &quot;These People are Going to Die of Anal Poisoning,&quot; or &quot;Free Breast Implants?&quot; Speaking of Eliot Spitzer, remember how that all went down?

(playing of Spitzer spoof song: Love Client #9)

<span style="font-weight: bold">RUSH:</span> He was stupid. He left evidence! Sanford didn't do that.

(song continues playing)

RUSH: I wonder if Sanford thought that he was gonna get away with this.

(song continues playing)

RUSH: They all do I guess.

(song continues playing)

RUSH: He could have been our JFK!

(song continues playing)

RUSH: He coulda had it all.

(song continues playing)

RUSH: Yeah, Gary Hart's wife stood next to him out there, too.

(song continues, fades down to the end)

RUSH: That is &quot;white comedian Paul Shanklin,&quot; vocal portrayal there as Bill Clinton talking about Eliot Spitzer and Love Client #9.


BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I tell you, Sanford handled this -- as we commented here, he handled this -- a little differently than most of these guys do. Like Ensign, he was in a blackmail scheme or we'd have never known about it. Eliot Spitzer was writing checks to the hookers. Clinton left the semen on the stain -- uh, on the dress. But look what Sanford did: &quot;Yeah, yeah. I went down there screwed off for five days. My bad. Leave my wife alone, please. It wasn't her fault. Sorry.&quot; Now, real question is: At the end of his political career, will there be a Mark Sanford Library and Massage Parlor? Clinton has one, and there have been many famous ceremonies that have taken place there.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: SC governor's little lie masks a much bigger one

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">a weh him a seh..di devil made him dweet?</span></span>

I can't believe I would hear that from a Rebupublican....
I mean another Republican, what about the vaunted high morals?? and people must take responsiobillity??
You mean he is going to forgive the poor people inb his state as he would wantus to forgive him too??

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Who it was that said that prayers are never answered as requested again?
Tell them they don't kniw what they are saying.
Now for Mr Limbaugh... I can't wait to hear that one </span>

[evanovitch]

Everybody a seh dem piece

Sanford's Security Detail Had Been Trying to Locate Him



 

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 25, 2009; 5:09 PM
The security detail for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was actively searching for him over the weekend and concerned about his safety, but getting the runaround from his staff in trying to contact him, the director of the state's law enforcement agency said in an interview this afternoon.

Sanford asked his protective detail to &quot;stand down&quot; at 1 p.m. last Thursday at his mansion, and then drove off alone in a state law enforcement sport-utility vehicle, the director said. But agents weren't concerned until they heard a rumor Saturday that the governor had been spotted speeding on a South Carolina interstate in an SUV.

Reggie Lloyd, director of the state Law Enforcement Division, told reporters today that his agency, which operates the governor's protective detail, first tried reaching the governor's top staff without luck. The agents then tried to remotely check devices inside the vehicle to pinpoint its location but discovered that those tools were turned off, Lloyd said.



The state agency the same afternoon sought telephone company records to determine where Sanford might have been when using his cellphone and found he had last made a call some days earlier in the Atlanta area. Much later that day, Lloyd said, Sanford's chief of staff assured the agency that there was no reason to worry.

&quot;At some point during the course of all of this, we were able to talk to his chief of staff. He passed along the fact that the governor was okay. They said they were attempting to reach him about this story, they knew where he was, he was okay,&quot; Lloyd said.

Sanford admitted yesterday that he had had an affair with a woman in Argentina, speaking at a rambling news conference after returning from a mysterious five-day absence over Father's Day weekend. He made his confession soon after he was confronted by a local news reporter as he arrived at the Atlanta airport from Argentina. His staff had earlier reported that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

The director said the security detail also did not accompany Sanford when he traveled last year to Buenos Aires on a state-paid Commerce Department trip. A statement by Sanford today, plus copies of his e-mails and state trip records, revealed Sanford met with the Argentine woman for a romantic rendezvous on the state-funded trip.

It wasn't unusual for Sanford to ask for his security detail to leave him alone for a few days, Lloyd said.

&quot;As an adult male, he's free to come and go as he pleases,&quot; said Lloyd. &quot;There were times when he would want to get away. He's been in office 6 1/2 years. He very much values his time away from the office. It had become routine enough that it was not suspicious.&quot;

Sanford's travels to Brazil and Argentina cost taxpayers at least $9,000 in airfare, lodging, meals and phone charges, according state records.

He led a delegation of state government and business leaders to Sao Paolo from June 21 to 23, 2008, for meetings with Brazilian government and business officials and briefings from U.S. Embassy personnel.

The governor, South Carolina Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor and some members of the delegation then traveled on June 24 to Cordoba, Argentina, for a two-day hunting trip, according to state Commerce Department spokeswoman Kara Borie.

Sanford then departed alone for Buenos Aires on June 25, where he was joined by a project manager with the state Commerce Department. In Buenos Aires, Sanford met with U.S. Embassy personnel on June 25, then with Argentine business leaders and Buenos Aires provincial governor Daniel Osvaldo Scioli on June 26. After a day of sightseeing on June 27, he returned to Columbia, S.C., on the morning of June 28.

An official familiar with Sanford's Buenos Aires trip and meetings said he appeared normal and engaged during the appointments but could provide no details about any of the governor's unofficial engagements. The state Commerce Department worked with the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires to schedule all but one of Sanford's meetings, according to the official. Embassies regularly schedule such appointments for visiting government or business delegations.

Sanford said in a statement today that the business development trip was &quot;entirely professional and appropriate,&quot; while also acknowledging meeting his mistress during it. He pledged to reimburse the state for the full cost of the Argentina leg of the trip.

&quot;This trip was handled very professionally by the [South Carolina] Department of Commerce, and I'm proud of their work there,&quot; Sanford said.

Staff writer Ed O'Keefe contributed to this report.

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John Stewart rope een pon my guy...dwl dwl dwl

Jon Stewart apologized last night for having said South Carolina Mark Sanford was on the Appalachian Trail having sex with a coyote when in fact he was in Argentina having sex with a married woman.

Sanford held a press conference yesterday after being missing for seven days. He apologized to his wife and four sons for the betrayal and resigned as head of the Republican Governors Association. Stewart, who had hunkered down for an exciting announcement with popcorn and movie-sized soda, was disappointed saying:

&quot;Oh, marital infidelity, you're just another run of the mill human being whose simple moralizing about the sanctity of marriage is only marred by the complexities of their own life. <span style="font-weight: bold">Well just another politician with a conservative mind and a liberal penis.</span>&quot;

<span style="font-style: italic">Stewart was, of course, referencing Sanford's views on marriage which he thought should only be between a man and a woman.</span>

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Sanford Was Harsh Critic Of Clinton Affair, Called President

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Mark Sanford's admission that he has had an affair with a woman from Argentina, whom he met through the exchange of emails, promises to spark yet another round of reflection and debate over how significant a politician's personal life is when judging their professional conduct.

The South Carolina Republican, who apologized to his wife, family, staff and friends, said that he was willing to face the consequences of his actions. One of those was consequences was immediate, facing the judgment of the press, he said. Another was his resignation from the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association. Whether the consequences extend to his resignation from the governor's chair remains to be seen.

The standard Sanford has set for other politicians over the years has been fairly high. A member of the House of Representatives during the heyday of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, he was often a harsh critic of the president for his marital misconduct.

This is &quot;very damaging stuff,&quot; Sanford declared at one point, when details of Clinton's conduct became known. <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign)... I come from the business side,&quot; he said. &quot;If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.&quot;</span>

Explaining his decision to back impeachment articles against Clinton, he added, &quot;I think what he did in this matter was reprehensible... I feel very comfortable with my vote.&quot;

Sanford's complaints were directed primarily, although not entirely, at Clinton's lying about the affair rather than the affair itself. <span style="font-weight: bold">At one point, however, he proclaimed that Clinton was likely to get away with his infidelities and indiscretion because he already had the perception of someone who was untrustworthy.</span>

&quot;In politics you can get away with anything as long as it's what's expected,&quot; he was quoted saying in a Boston Globe article published in December 1998. &quot;If people expect you to be a rascal, you can be a rascal.&quot;

At another point, however, Sanford seemed to acknowledge that when it came to politicians, skeletons in the closet were to be expected. &quot;This is a human institution,&quot; he said of Congress, in a Maclean's article from September 1998. &quot;Take it as a given that weird stuff goes on.&quot;

More than anything else, Sanford -- after initially cautioning the press to withhold judgment until all the facts in the Clinton case were known -- became deeply skeptical of the president's motives. He was one of only five members of the House of Representatives (and one of two Republicans -- Ron Paul being the other) to vote against expressing support for U.S. troops in combat after Clinton ordered bombing raids in Iraq. Sanford reasoned that the president was trying to distract attention from his marital issues. <span style="font-weight: bold">And toward the end of the saga, he insisted that Clinton could not operate with any effectiveness because he'd been untruthful.</span>

&quot;<span style="font-weight: bold">The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust</span>,&quot; he told CNN. &quot;And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.&quot;

Now, of course, he is working to rebuild the trust he lost from an affair of his own.

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Re: Sanford Was Harsh Critic Of Clinton Affair, Called President

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