Dust1969, I don't know this guy you referenced, however, other media outlets do observe Salon's choice of what's considered important news.

As for you, your comments and opinions should remain where your head is. Now go figure.

Generally I don't stoop to acknowledge such dogma from the lips of the insane.

FARK sanford, WE HATE TO SEE you, GO!!!!!

WE HATE TO SEE you, DON'TCHA KNOW?????

your MISERABLE HYPOCRITE repuke S-H-I-T BESMIRCHED FACE

IS HARDLY THE EMPITOME, RATHER IS THE NADIR OF GRACE!!!!!

SO CUT OFF yer EAR AND SHOOT yerself IN THE CHEST, GO MAN VAN GOGH!!!!!

HAH!!!!!

(^0^)V sanford HAS NEITHER THE INTESTINAL FORTITUDE(GUTS) NOR THE DEDICATION AND HONESTY TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND RESIGN THE GOVERNORSHIP AND HIS POLITICAL CAREER OR DO himself IN, WHICH IS THE REAL MAN'S WAY OUT! BUT THEN sanford IS A LILY-LIVERED UNSCRUPULOUS LYING repug-rethug-reslug-repuke fudge-pachyderm of the G.rotesque O.bstructionist P.ederast party, SO I'M AFRAID WE CAN NOT EXPECT THE PROPER ACTS OF CONTRITION FROM SUCH A WORTHLESS S-H-I-T HEEL LIKE mark sanford!!!!!

What's so bad about Sanford? That's easy: Reason and accountability, the hallmarks of being an adult human, are not in their rightful place in Sanford's personhood. For him, the passions and appetites control his behavior.

Real men select objects of affection in light of reason and accountability, in light of duty, promise, honor and other ethical norms. They do not allow themselves to be carried away to the other hemisphere by someone he feels a connection with, no matter how strong. A real man would know that his soulmate is the mother of his four sons, no matter what his "feelings" tell him. That's reason and accountability in control; the way it should be, the way it *must be* for a real man.

Like all boys, Sanford's four sons are learning how to be men from the most concrete example they have: their father. And he's telling them that being a man consists of irrational unaccountable feeling-chasing. He's doing them a profound disservice. Sanford may wear a suit and govern a state, but he's nothing more than a child, self-indulgent, confused, and unworthy of the right to make promises of any kind.

Should he resign? If South Carolina requires the governor to be an adult emotionally, the answer is clear.

Joan, as usual, is so right. We have received FAR too much information from Mark Sanford. He just continues to talk publicly. Why?

It seems that Sanford has no close friend that he can talk with honestly - so he airs it all publicly and we know more than most of us ever wish to know. His wife strikes me as a cold fish who declared she did not care about his career. Probably she does not care much about the marriage either. Perhaps Mark was unable to discuss the marriage with her and what they could both do to make it better.

I do not think he should resign. I think he should shut up and do the best job he can possibly do as governor for 18 months. The disruption of a new governor would hurt S. C. more than the presence of an imperfect one.

If he has truly found a soul mate perhaps he needs to pursue that as he obviously has not been an ideal husband. The travesty is his four boys but the damage there is already done.

If we are fortunate enough to find a soul mate it is probably once in a lifetime. Do we pursue this or do we spend the next 30 to 40 years wishing we had?

Trying to overturn an erection or criminalize personal behavior, a la Clinton impeachment, has it's own moral component to it. The first did not effect me but the second does.

Your typo above is side splitting..

Of course Sanford does not deserve impeachment for adultery (even though it is a crime in SC), he deserves it for misusing taxpayer funds for personal use and misfeasance of duty.

Keep in mind that is the Sanfords of the world who wish to criminalize private, consenting adult behavior.

Sanford fully deserves being hoist upon his own petard.

I'm so fed up with Gov. Narcissus -- why can't the personal responsibility crowd tell him to shut up? Or does the personal responsibility speech only apply to welfare recipients and poor teenagers in need of an abortion?

These latest admissions may drive him from office for now, but Sanford still should be able to make a political comeback after a while, for the simple reason that all elected officials are lying hypocrites who abuse their public trust while in office. What's the big deal when he's just one of many?

No one in America who wins an election is a "good" or moral person, because the people who sincerely observe and follow moral values in their lives would not be able to do what is necessary to get elected (lie to voters and the press, abandon long-time friends, distort the votes and statement of opponents, attack those opponents' character and families, kiss up to lobbyists for donations, in short sell their soul).

The process ensures we only wind up with scoundrels in office. Sanford doesn't stand out much compared to his peers, so he should be able to come back eventually.

The South Carolina governor, Mark Sanford, can cheat on his wife to his heart's content and make a mockery of the institution of marriage, but when he used taxpayers' money to have a sexual affair with an Argentinian woman since 2001 and made intentionally misleading statements about it to deceive his wife, 4 sons, and the public and "reimbursed" the public $8000.00 for the last plane trip falsely stating that the affair began in 2008, he lost all credibility. He's the South Carolinian version of pastor Ted Haggard but with access to public monies he misappropriated for personal pleasure. His political career was built on "FAMILY VALUES" and "FISCAL CONSERVATISM" rhetoric, but he spared no expense to jet off to Argentina like a Wall Street banker using bail-out money to sexually pleasure himself when school children in his impoverished state were denied the basic necessities of an education because of his political grandstanding in denying the Obama stimulus money. He is rewrapping himself in Jesus Christ to rehabilitate and resurrect his political career like King David. He is as SPIRITUALLY IMPOVERISHED as his state is financially impoverished, and that's why he should be indicted and criminally prosecuted for his crimes against the taxpayers.