Did you read what Joan wrote? McGreevey and Spitzer had the decency to make their confessions and then exit stage left. Sanford's problem is he won't let go, and insists on dragging us all into the mess together with him. Same for his wife. At least the mistress is trying to keep a low profile.

Republicans sure seem to have a problem seeing an accurate reflection in the mirror. Interesting to see that you're no different.

Please don't use him as a role model for "going quietly" Joan. It took 8 months, nearly all of them made up of painful death throes.

You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about RexRange by visiting his letters archive and observing how long it took him to figure out the capslock key.

HTH.

To all of those who are tugging at the teacher's skirt and shreiking, "See? THEY [Dems]do it TOO!"

It can't be said too many times how interesting it is that you can't manage to hold your leaders to any higher standard than that of those you claim to revile.

That was dreadful {blush}.

(Note to self... PREVIEW before sending!)

Sorry!

Nice to see somebody making the distinction. I call em Christianoids since they vaguely resemble Christians in the same way humanoids vaguely resemble humans. Same idea, and I imagine a lot of people are beginning to see the difference.

There are some genuine Christians out there, and it is insulting to lump them together with these bozos.

Before you hopefully slide off into obscurity, please let me add my two cents, too! We appreciate that you are married to a bitter ugly boring old bag. We can tell you are a poetic and sensitive soul. We just know you are burning, loins aflame, with L-O-V-E. Not only with this S. American, but for many other women! We get it. We can see you are a randy, virile adolescent trapped in the body of a dull middle aged man. Now please - Shut the F*** UP and GO AWAY!

when Sanford is thrown out of office, his wife divorces him and takes the children and he spends his last dime on a plane ticket to Argentina only to find his soul mate shacked up with a Venezuelan oil magnate.

I'm looking foward to reading about the belated identification of Mark Sanford from the decomposing body found in a Buenas Aires alley - emaciated, heroin-addicted, syphillis-riddled.

I saw the Lt Governor on Rachel Maddow one night during Sanford's disappearance from the planet. He seemed genuinely concerned about where the Governor was and something might have happened to him. Personally he looks like the more stable of the two. Sanford's affair wouldn't be what would bother me as much as his constant lying, hypocrisy and disappearing for 5 days without notifying anyone where he was at. He doesn't come off as being a very responsible guy. He obviously isn't taking his duties very seriously. In fact he comes off as being a FLAKE! I don't know what prompted this latest expose in the never ending soap opera saga that's become his life. But, he needs to get some help. It's obvious the wheels are coming off and it might be more than a midlife crisis.

Cinderella! Wasn't it a love story when he got married? Didn't he know about soul-mates then?

SC needs to dump him, right after his wife does. Argentina should look into the crystal ball and see when her number will be up.

What a jerk.

The most interesting part of Sanford's saga is what he is trying to do with the notion of redemption. It's too clever. He accomplishes redemption by staying in office because a public airing of all of this provides the cauterizing quality that dealing with it in private could not do. Brilliant. And, of course, patently narcissistic, but he's too wrapped up in how to play it to see that.

If he really was interested in something (or anyone) other than himself, he could prove it by staying on and serving his state as governor, but forgoing his salary. That act might make an impression that all of his solipsistic blather could never do.

Mark Sanford is really, really fucking creepy. I'm just happy I don't live in that bastion of family values; aka South Carolina.

As a woman, I suspect I'm in the minority, but I'm still cheering for Mark and Maria! Mark seems to be as much a prisoner of his particular brand of Christianity and conservatism and ambition, as "Father Ralph" was of his Catholicism/Christianity and ambition. I think Mark loves Maria -- 8 years is a long time. There are at least 2 sides to every story. Maybe Jenny was going to deny Sanford his ability to see his kids on Father's Day, which may then have actually made him more irrational and drawn back to Argentina. To me, Jenny comes off as dispassionate, cold, manipulative, controlling and equally as sanctimonious as Mark as been, with her Catholic/Christian/Quiverfull blend, showing off her "devotion books" to the media. I get the impression those 4 kids were her idea, not Mark's. And don't tell me she was so shut down that she didn't see the signs of a man in a loveless marriage. He's been sending out signals for years. Her ambition is as strong as his and she turned a blind eye. Something in this marriage has been deeply troubled for a long time. Mark should extend his knowledge of "The Thorn Birds" beyond the TV mini-series and read the book. It's so much more than the mini-series. And the book might help him.

To me Sanford deserves the most scorn and shame not for his affair, but for his cynical effort to reject federal stimulus funds due to his low-income, Due? Why don't you run for Governor? Oh ya your expertise is at running your mouth.

........ "Sanford became the face of conservative white privilege and indifference."

How pathetic, democrats are the ones who still segregate, Black caucus , Hispanic etc.

"He's hurt his party twice, first with his cruel political showboating and now with his histrionic midlife crisis. But if his stimulus rejectionism wasn't enough to ruin his career, his behavior in the last few weeks may well be."

Just because you say so? Ha! You want to talk about Cruel? How about committing treason. Emboldening the enemy by giving them hope to fight on so you can both achieve your goal of defeating Bush. There was just one problem with that not that you would notice being all consumed with hate and all. What was I thinking , why would you care about the needless deaths and wounding of thousands of soldiers, you hate them too. As far as the Billions more spent as a direct result of democrats prolong the war trying to bring about defeat, You just pretend to care about all that money just like you pretend to care about the American Soldiers come election time .You don't fool me.

RexRange nailed it on the head. He describes what I call "THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF PERPETUAL FRAUD"

Reg. democratic AMERICAN

against lying traitorous democrats