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"In early 2009, after Jenny Sanford discovered the affair, the couple went into counseling. She has told The Associated Press that he asked her several times to visit the mistress... and she refused.

"This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story," Sanford said. "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day." Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate."

— Gov. Mark Sanford

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Abandoning the concept of a nuclear family altogether, Sanford explains why he shouldn't resign, saying he "finds interesting", the story of King David, the story of a man who had eight wives, not counting his numerous concubines.

Admitting this week that there were other dangerous liaisons with various women throughout his marriage and political career, Sanford finds biblical precedent for his family situation, pointing out that his life appears to track with that of Judaism's most admired mensch.

"About an hour after Jenny Sanford talked of her pain and feelings of betrayal, her husband brushed aside any suggestion he might immediately resign, citing the Bible and the story of King David.

"What I find interesting is the story of David, and the way in which he fell mightily — fell in very, very significant ways, but then picked up the pieces and built from there," Sanford told members of his cabinet.
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Let's STOP mincing words.

The question isn't whether Mark Sanford values family, it's how many families he values.

This is just MORE hypocrisy from the Rapture-panic party arguing that same-sex marriage is dangerous because it could lead down the slippery slope to LEGAL polygamy.

This wistful Gentile mensch is essentially an emotional polygamist preaching nuclear family values to everyone else.

"It's as though we're looking at a completely different person, one we didn't know existed," Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens) said of Sanford.

Sanford and his family, his political associates, see this as some kind of heroic struggle instead of the hypocritical lifestyle of a man who simply wants it both ways... to play the part of a judgmental Christian conservative role model for moneyed religious interests... and also to live as a polygamist desert king in the Levant, duplicity his wife and political associates could live with until he was outted by the mistress's boyfriend and cornered at the airport by a reporter.

I'm pretty sure Jenny didn't like it, so she should have call him on his social conservative hypocrisy WHILE he was lining up with the likes of Palin, Bachmann, Ensign, and Vitter to declare themselves guardians of America's families and marriage.

Sanford resigned from his leadership position in the Governors Association, only after he was publically outted by others, not because his relationships with other women were known by his wife and political associates...supporters who still saw him as leadership material in spite of these transgressions against what he professed to be THE fundamental elements of both his life and the life of all of man-kind.

"I do think he can be an effective leader,” said his former chief of staff and friend for more than 30 years, Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort. "I don’t think he should resign."

Evoking the many wives and concubines of King David in order to heep his grip on leadership colors his expanding litany of pseudo-wives. This man feels entitled, philosophically allotted the women and power that he's gotten, and I'm really not all that inclined to argue that he might have a point if he wasn't such a hypocritical liar and judgmental jack ass about everybody else's particular and peculiar decisions about love, sex and family.

"We’ve heard from some people in recent days who separate the bedroom from the board room. I don’t," said Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson