"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
More about Mark's other women
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.
Read more about Mark's identification with King David
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
The Millennium has passed...
...but the Armageddon-mongers haven't.
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Dowd Has a Shtick, and She's Sticking to It
"Sanford can be truly humble only if he stops dictating to others, who also have desires and weaknesses, how to behave in their private lives.
The Republican Party will never revive itself until its sanctimonious pantheon — Sanford, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, Ensign, Vitter and hypocrites yet to be exposed — stop being two-faced."
— Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed Columnist NYTimes
Read more on Sanford, Enseign, Vitter, et al.
Dowd rarely has a point someone else hasn't already made, but this time she repeats a great one. The question isn't whether Mark Sanford values family, it's how many families he values.
It's just more hypocrisy from the Rapture-panic party arguing that same-sex marriage is dangerous because it MIGHT lead to legal polygamy.
Still... does Dowd EVER criticize a guy without taking a shot at his junk?
I think not.
"In a weepy, gothic unraveling, the South Carolina governor gave a press conference illustrating how smitten he was, not only with his Argentine amante, but with his own tenderness, his own pathos and his own feminine side.
"He got into trouble as a man and tried to get out as a woman."
Obviously, her signature jab at a man's masculinity is college-level rhetoric and embarrassing to read in a NYT opinion piece, but at least we expected from her, so you can skim the inevitability of it while looking for a more salient point... just in case she has one you didn't already read in someone else's column just last last week.
She's repetitive, and she borrows a lot... like a lot of us do... but she gets paid to do it.
Color me envy.
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The Republican Party will never revive itself until its sanctimonious pantheon — Sanford, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, Ensign, Vitter and hypocrites yet to be exposed — stop being two-faced."
— Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed Columnist NYTimes
Read more on Sanford, Enseign, Vitter, et al.
Dowd rarely has a point someone else hasn't already made, but this time she repeats a great one. The question isn't whether Mark Sanford values family, it's how many families he values.
It's just more hypocrisy from the Rapture-panic party arguing that same-sex marriage is dangerous because it MIGHT lead to legal polygamy.
Still... does Dowd EVER criticize a guy without taking a shot at his junk?
I think not.
"In a weepy, gothic unraveling, the South Carolina governor gave a press conference illustrating how smitten he was, not only with his Argentine amante, but with his own tenderness, his own pathos and his own feminine side.
"He got into trouble as a man and tried to get out as a woman."
Obviously, her signature jab at a man's masculinity is college-level rhetoric and embarrassing to read in a NYT opinion piece, but at least we expected from her, so you can skim the inevitability of it while looking for a more salient point... just in case she has one you didn't already read in someone else's column just last last week.
She's repetitive, and she borrows a lot... like a lot of us do... but she gets paid to do it.
Color me envy.
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The Indirect Prophesy of Tim Pawlenty: Premonitions of Hypocrisy and Pain
"Any time you have leading figures who are engaged in behavior that's sad and troubling and hypocritical, other people are going to look at that and say, 'Hmmm, they don't walk the walk.' And so the words and the actions don't ring true."
— Minnesota's Republican Governor Pawlenty
Read more about Pawlenty's Whack at Sanford
If there's ANYTHING we've learned during this endless parade of Republican hypocrisy-mongers out to burnish their crazy conservative cred on the shredded hope of their fallen, it's that a Rapture-ready End Times denizen like Pawlenty is most likely standing in line somewhere behind Sanford on a long walk of shame to a stage in front of the news cameras.
Here, Pawlenty joins the ranks of those who claim not to see the 50% divorce rate has ANYTHING to do with the institution of marriage... and he lines up with Tribulation-crazy lady Sen. Michelle Bachmann as they pledge to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
See more of that crazy day
A comment like that can come only from someone completely out of touch with facts on the ground.
We need to realize these guys push legislation and proclamations that are better suited for characters who don't even intend to be here once they're disappeared in the twinkling of an eye... Raptured right when their bombs drop from the sky.
But... what if YOU're Left Behind?
The Rapture-panic party would withhold from us accessible healthcare, food safety, public education, and even basic human companionship... everyday necessities the heaven-bound simply don't believe WE'LL need when THEY're Taken Away.
— Minnesota's Republican Governor Pawlenty
Read more about Pawlenty's Whack at Sanford
If there's ANYTHING we've learned during this endless parade of Republican hypocrisy-mongers out to burnish their crazy conservative cred on the shredded hope of their fallen, it's that a Rapture-ready End Times denizen like Pawlenty is most likely standing in line somewhere behind Sanford on a long walk of shame to a stage in front of the news cameras.
Here, Pawlenty joins the ranks of those who claim not to see the 50% divorce rate has ANYTHING to do with the institution of marriage... and he lines up with Tribulation-crazy lady Sen. Michelle Bachmann as they pledge to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
See more of that crazy day
A comment like that can come only from someone completely out of touch with facts on the ground.
We need to realize these guys push legislation and proclamations that are better suited for characters who don't even intend to be here once they're disappeared in the twinkling of an eye... Raptured right when their bombs drop from the sky.
But... what if YOU're Left Behind?
The Rapture-panic party would withhold from us accessible healthcare, food safety, public education, and even basic human companionship... everyday necessities the heaven-bound simply don't believe WE'LL need when THEY're Taken Away.
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