This is terrible…. I will explain after the video and story…
The Video:
The Story:
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, his eyes red, admitted to having an extramarital affair Wednesday with an Argentine woman.
“I’ve been unfaithful to be my wife,” Sanford said at a state capitol news conference.
It began very innocently,” he explained, saying that developed into an adulterous relationship in the past year.
He said he seen his unidentified mistress three times since they began the affair or, as he put it, “since the whole sparking thing.”
Sanford said he was resigning his post as Chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association.
Taking questions from reporters, Sanford said his wife knew about the relationship before his trip last week and that “they had been working through this thing for about the last five months.”
He shed tears as he explained how helpful one friend had been.
He also choked up when he said: “This has been selfishness on my part.”
Sanford’s admission caps an extraordinary week in which he was revealed to having been in Argentina and not, as his staff said, hiking on the Appalachian trail.
Before disclosing his relationship, Sanford apologized profusely to a number of family and friends.
“I’ve let down a lot of people — that’s the bottom line,” Sanford said.
My Friends, I am not going to try and spin this or lie about it or anything. For the first time in my blogging career; I can honestly say, that I am at a loss for words. The emotions that I am feeling right now are shock, disbelief, anger, slight numbness; all of that. In the back of my mind, I was worried that people like Jack Hunter; who’s also known as “The Southern Avenger“, was putting way too much stock into the guy. I thought that this was a setup by the Neo-Conservatives and the Liberals to keep him from trying to running for President in 2012. I even was about ready to pen a Editoral blasting those whom I thought were behind the attempt to undercut the man.
Well, all that’s not going to be needed now. Mark Stanford admitted he was in deep trouble.
I am, as they say; devastated.
Update: As always, Memeorandum has the round up.
Update #2: Michelle Malkin does not mence words, She calls Sanford a “Bastard“. To which I say; Amen.
Update #3: The Anchoress has some choice words for Sanford as well.
Update #4: I’ve seen some Democrats just loving this. Let me say this, at least Mark Sanford wasn’t trying to run for President; while cheating on his wife with cancer; and the last time I checked, Sandford doesn’t have any “Hey, ask me about my dead kid!”, stickers on the back of his car. Unlike a well-known Democrat that we all know.
Numb is right. It’s not betrayal because he’s not in my family or my governor, but as you say, there have been a number of us who put hope in him. He seemed like the candidate who had the principles to take up the Ron Paul mantle in 2012. By rejecting stimulus money and becoming a reviled figure in his own party, he sure appeared to have integrity. But now that facade has been ripped off and a sinful human being was underneath. To make a trite example, it’s like finding out that my cherished autographed baseball was a forgery. Very sad.
I know, it sucks. 🙁
Another Republican hypocrite revealed, among many.
As I said in my last update:
I wouldn’t gloat too much John. Because one of your main Presidential Candidates did the same damn thing, with a Wife with Cancer! so, spare me the Gloating, okay?
-Pat
I’ve never known Sanford to be one of the Republican moralizing finger-waggers you’re thinking of, John. Newt Gingrich and Larry Craig come to mind, but not Mark Sanford, at least to my knowledge.
Well Carl that ain’t really true either. When he was serving in the Senate (I think!), he did call for Clinton’s impeachment. He also was touted by some, not all, but some, as a family values man.
Either way, I think the democrats have zero right to say anything at all. As their party is not exactly the Party of morals either.
-Pat
Sanford was in the House. He came in during the “Republican Revolution” of 1994 on the promise to serve no more than three terms, which he did. At least he kept that promise.
I’m not from around South Carolina so I don’t really know his personal reputation (I only heard about Sanford about a year ago from Jack Hunter videoes). That’s why I said “to my knowledge.” You say some touted him as a family values man. Did he do anything to enhance or embrace that reputation?
There are two parts to the Clinton impeachment. He had an affair and then lied under oath about it. Sanford’s had an affair, but as far as I can see, he hasn’t lied about it. In a narrow sense, I’d say that’s not hypocritical, except of course, his broken marital vows.
Of one thing I’m sure: adultery is a bipartisan business.