so, how long until we find out what her (or his) name is?

like the other politicians??

Some People Say Governor Sanford killed a prostitute while he was in Argentina.

Can we get confirmation or a denial from the Governor on this?

I think you meant "a seriously negative EFFECT on his political career."

Only difference is, Sanford has had the good sense to leave the country for his "adventures," rather than seeking them out in airport restrooms.

I typed in the word "sex tourism" in Google (I do the nasty work, so

you don't have to) and of course a bunch of cities came up and one of

the first was "Buenos Aires"! I grabbed this snippet from the a cyber travel site: "ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACT THAT IS DRIVING BUENOS AIRES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT OUT SEX TOURISM DESTINATIONS IS ITS TOLERANCE TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALITY"

The evidence is really piling up...

Where the hell are THEY?

This could be a CRISIS!

Or a CONSPIRACY!

Where is PALIN?

The Other 49?

W H E R E ?

???

?

49!

It can only get worse, since the media won't rest til they have found out and in the meantime, we can make up every negative story available. He'll never recover from this, because it's already way past innocent. Sanford is toast.

Don't know how I did that, it's a pet peeve of mine too, actually, thanks for the catch.

It makes sense that he would go to South America for his homosexual encounters. They have some of the best transexuals in the world there. He could almost convince himself it doesn't count cause she(he) looks like a girl and he is outside of the country where he is legally married. I wonder how many viagras he took to keep the party going. He most likely induldged in alot of cocaine while he was there too. They should force him to take a pregnancy test along with the necessary std and drug tests. They also need to measure the diameter of his rectum to determine the girth of the TS that he was with.

This whole thing sounds a bit like having $90,000,00 in a freezer, or Ted "Splash" Kennedy or Grand Wizard Bobby Byrd.

It's about as stupid a waste of time and ink. Get a life..

Just to play devil's advocate, why should anyone care where the governor of South Carolina goes on holiday and whether he tells his staff? As we all know, the last president spent much of his presidency "on holiday" in Texas without being impeached (surprisingly?). Assuming no-one objects to Sanford actually having a mere week off, is there some critical state function (ritual junior beauty pageant sacrifice? presiding at a lynching? the annual squirrel-brains cook off?) for which he's indispensable?

At the end of the day, he's simply a politician. Should crisis erupt in South Carolina, there will be others to make the relevant decisions. Absent any specific information to show he's done anything wrong, why doesn't this raise more questions about the state of American journalism than the state of South Carolina?

If he has been having butt secks (or non-butt secks) in Buenos Aires and this is somehow inconsistent with his public positions on these issues, let's hear it, but I'm not sure that _not_ wanting journalists to know what you're doing on holiday is really particularly strange behaviour.

This is a manufactured story, just like Lohan, Spears, Obama's birth certificate, FEMA camps, taking your guns away, etc.

If you don't have 24 hours of news for the 24 hour news cycle, just make it up!

Spur of the moment jaunts to South America aren't cheap.

I mean, can he be serious? Stating that he wanted to "do something "exotic" is:

A) Invitation for every late night and comedy central host to bring it on.

B Exotic = gay sex

C) Can't he bring his wife and kids with him to "recharge?" Most family men find spending time with their beautiful children a wonderful break from reality.

D) Exotic = gay sex.

before the pictures of him on the beach in a thong come out?

Well we all had a good go at ole Spitzer for his illegal behavior. Now Sanford is getting stick because he went on a trip that was most likely a sex vacation of some kind.

But here's the thing. Whatever Sanford did in Buenos Aires (Lovely Airs) was most likely perfectly legal. And isn't that what we want from our legislators--to uphold the laws?

The prosperity of many locations depends on arbitraging laws relative to neighboring jurisdictions so as to attract various kinds of business. So we should not object if our politicians decide to make a fact-finding trip to Nevada to study brothels, or to Argentina to study transexuals. Of course, if they are married then their spouses may have objections, but that is a private matter, surely.

Extract your head from your anus.

When a sitting governor disappears for 4 days, lies about his whereabouts, travels to a foreign country without so much as dealing with the details of who is running the state back home and is essnetially incommunicato, whether or not he is cheating on his wife under conditions that violate or don't violate the law is the least of the problems. And NOBODY is a hypocrite for calling him out over this.

"Nothing to see here folks, just move along..."

They probably found him fighting with himself outside of a bar somewhere in the middle of the night.

I'm sure you would be *so* quiet and respectful if a Democrat were caught in the same position.

er uh, montaña de brokeback

Remember "Conservatives", it isn't the gay sex, it's the *lying* about the gay sex.

Why, no one should. Unless, that is, they're IN SOUTH CAROLINA PAYING HIS @^$%%*#! SALARY.

Sure, if he wants to go on a mystery vacation, just say so: "I'm taking off for a week." "Where to, Governor?" "Not telling. I want a little privacy." Fine. Let people speculate to their heart's content. But can anyone here take a week off from their job (let alone their wife and family), without telling anybody, without explanation, without leaving any contact information, and still have a job left to return to?

I didn't think so.