Sanford admits he has been "unfaithful" to his wife for a year; trip to Argentina was to see mistress
By David Neiwert Wednesday Jun 24, 2009 11:00am
Boy, somehow you could just see this coming when people started asking where Gov. Mark Sanford had disappeared to:
COLUMBIA, S.C. - During a Wednesday news conference at his office in Columbia, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to having an extramarital affair — information that surfaced after his recent, secret trip to Argentina.
The married father of four emotionally apologized to his wife and staff, saying, "I've let down a lot of people."
Sanford said he met the woman almost eight years ago, but "about a year ago, it sparked into something more than that."
The governor said his wife and family have known about it for the past five months.
He also announced that he was resigning as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association.
Earlier, the South Carolina governor told a newspaper he was in South America, not hiking the Appalachian Trail as his staff had told the public to explain his sudden absence. He said he "wanted to do something exotic" to unwind after losing a fight over federal stimulus money.
Well, that scratches Sanford from the ranks of GOP possibles for 2012. That leaves Newt Gingrich and Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin, who've self-inflicted similar but perhaps less egregious wounds, and Mitt Romney, who is looking increasingly like the winner by default.
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wife put it out there? "where's Mark?"
Happy Father's day, Guvnor Ahole!
Unfaithful to JUST his wife? No. He was unfaithful to the kids too.
what I was just thinkin, lol!
notice the girl laughing behind him just as the video clip starts.
I wonder if the wife sent her.
Mittens, please take your dog on another family vacation...
Repeat forever
Preach family values
Sin
Repent
convenience.
The hounding of Bill Clinton has come back to haunt the GOP sevenfold (or more): Larry Craig, Vitter, Ensign, now Sanford. And those are just a few examples. The universe has a way of cutting down those who would set themselves up on moral pedestals.
Don't forget Newtuls.
...... we can't forget Mark Foley.
Or Party Leader LImbaugh. Oh that's right, he's not cheating on his wives, he's divorcing them.
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Revenge is a dish best served with cold sores?
. . . but funny.
She was just being a crab.
At least they're screwing adult females now. *Golf clap*
where does it say adult lol!
The old axiom used to be for a politician: Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy in your bed.
I think its time to change the axiom for Republican "Family Value" types.
That was my first thought.
Besides not knowing the age of the female Argentina and Brazil are very accepting of Transgender females within their respective cultures.
The governor's lady just might be hung better than him.
I'm just surprised that these assclowns are getting, well, so much ass!
...that what he said---so far. This story has changed so many times I really think before it's over, we might find out my boy was taking a walk on the wild side. For god's sake, there might even be goats and bigamy involved-but it's all an equal sin to the fundies anyway.
Damn that Democrat!
By the way, you should have heard Michelle Malkin crying about this on Hannity's radio show today. For the first time, she actually seemed sincere in condemnation. Hannity kept trying to steer the conversation back to Democratic scandals, and she kept decrying all of the latest Republican shenanigans. Funny....as....hell
Will he do a Swaggart like emotional presser with his wife standing next to him?
I don't think his soon to be ex-wife is going to be anywhere near him.
a political wife much less a republican political wife.
Oh I sure hope so, another snot-covered Republican extremist would look good splashed all over magazines, television, and web sites.
I found two things interesting:
1- He did not tell his staff where he would be
2- He did not say has ended the relationship with the other woman
about "naked hiking" was a coincidence? Some staffers knew what he was doing.
He wanted to do something exotic like stick his adulterous dick into an Argentinian woman while AWOL from S.C.
Mission: ACCOMPLISHED!
Couldn't he spend less money and just screw the help?
That would make a change from the usual Republican modus operandi of screwing the helpless.
*rimshot*
Seriously! Why did he have to go out of the country--good old American girls aren't good enough for him? I think THAT is the real scandal here. He has all but said that American women aren't good enough for him. Why does he hate America?
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He also announced that he was resigning as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association.
Gee...that was big of him. Now he won't have the stress of attending all those golfing boondoggles.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
One from our state, Nevada
One from S.C.
Give me the old time gospel hour.
I was shocked too !!
than Young Frankenstein.
Yup
The Old Time Poke Her Hour
I have read that it maybe was a guy.
to be a guy, and now, thanks to argentinian health care, and a State of SC paid transgender op., he is a she.
Just a prayin'........
and a humpin'!
poke her for an hour?
Can we put this argument to rest? Marriage means is not sanctimonious. Let them gays marry. For the sake of individual liberty, more freedom and less government - some thing all Republicans dig.
"Do as I say... Not as I do."
Can we make it official: The GOP has literally gone insane...
(Ronny Ray Gun) I think they are having wardrobe malfunctions.
What BS. The GOP are circling the drain and guys like this are only pushing them faster. He's a liar, a hypocrite, and a sinner.
If this clown resigns last week--he saves his family the humiliation.
I loved it when he said he's been in Argentina Crying! Pls, you needed to go to So. America to shed tears?!?! That was Brilliant! I thought we were going to see some Swaggert tears. Now he's invoking GOD! My heart goes out to his family!
I'll bet Ensign called him said "Dude thanks for taking the heat off me...care to compare stories"
..don't cry on me.
badaboom
Right. A woman. Sure it was. He decided to go to a country that has a child rape tourism history just so he could expensively screw a woman in some other country. I believe anything these "family values" rightards say since they're all men of gods, of course.
My money is still on "underage boy".
Face it, it could be _anything_ with these types.
My money is still on "underage boy".
But I'm hoping for dwarfs and barn animals.
dwarf mule would be too much to ask for.
Argentinian was married as well
Did they interview the Argentinian's wife? Where did that info come from?
He couldn't forget the heat of her "tierra del fuego"!! LOL
Whilst his wife back home had a terrier del fuego.
*rimshot*
of child rape tourism?
and yes, it true....Kos has a story on it.
that is just fucking disgusting.
That's how I prefer f**king.
It's sad, cuz all they'd have to do is drop all this "family values" and "social conservative" crap in their campaigns and they could eff around with men or women, spouses or otherwise, to their little hearts content. As long as it was of legal age mind you.
have LOTS more leeway to do what they obviously want to do....
they're both hypocrites(r).sure they're human beings. but they both parade around judging others directly and indirectly. holding up the flag of "family values" as being superior. i only slightly chuckle because people get hurt in these personal dramas but i'm tired of the right using cultural issues to stimulate differences that lead to hate. the right brings this upon themselves as they proudly claim the ones that
respect "family values". it's NONsense i tell you......nonSENSE.
They tell everyone else how to act, and in SC, how to be poor without any help from them.
...it wasn't a man.. or wasn't it??? well that's not a bad thing i mean no republican would do that??
My thinking is that he was having an affair with a dude, or he was partying like Limbaugh and cruising for call girls that are pre-high school age... something Argentina is well known for.
It's funny, the party of sexual intolerance always seem to be into the freakiest, most disturbing kinds of sex.
The thought boggles the mind.
"the party of sexual intolerance always seem to be into the freakiest, most disturbing kinds of sex."
Male sex drive is like a river. You can control the flow to a degree, but try to stop it from flowing and it will burst out in all sorts of interesting directions you couldn't anticipate.
Some perverts enter the priesthood, but I'm sure many more are made by a vow of chastity.
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That's one of the best analogies I have read in a long time.
Republicans think sex is disgusting because it's the only kind they know.
Aw come on, it's very difficult to find llamas here in the United States.
Just settled for an Alpaca ranch.
lol
Boy you can't make this shit up. "Christian" conservative Republicans......the gift that keeps on giving.
"Mitt Romney, who is looking increasingly like the winner by default."
DEFAULT! DEFAULT! The two sweetest words in the English language.
-Homer Simpson
thy name is shit. Family values strikes again. Oh! yea of little morals, preach not lest you be pried upon.
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
AND ANOTHER ONE'S GONE
AND ANOTHER ONE'S GONE!!
ALL OBAMA SHOULD HAVE TO DO IS GIVE US A PUBLIC OPTION AND HE COULD BE ELECTED KING IN 12
I agree with:
ALL OBAMA SHOULD HAVE TO DO IS GIVE US A PUBLIC OPTION AND HE COULD BE ELECTED KING IN 12
that, and get us out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
What I find stunning is his complete ignorance of the optics of the situation.
situation: He's boning some Argentinian senorita.
So, how do you get some of that?
1. burn some cash, and fly her up.
2. invent a complex but reasonable excuse (have to to a meeting in Argentina - ooops - I got here and it was BS - I'll stay here for a few and find out what the hell happened...)
3. disappear just prior to FATHER'S DAY with no excuse or reason.
What does he do?
Door number Three MONTY!!!!
Awwww, sorry guvnah, it's a goat.
Are Republicans congenitally stupid or is it something they work at?
how old the picture is of Sandford's family on the previous thread. I'm speculating that it is recent. Sadly that would mean Sanford's affair was going on while he continued to have children with his wife.
she has that loook.
She's gonna rake his boney ass over the coals and take every last dime from him to keep her silence.
X
I hope she "rapes" his ass, money wise. What a dick.
In the previous thread I asked if Fox had put a "D" after his name. I just visited Kos and saw that they had.
That's it...they need to be taken off the air permanently.....One time, I can maybe believe accident...but twice or more, no. They are foul scum that need to be destroyed for all their false misleading lies.
Thx POP! Agreed Mr/s. Licious
never a best man nor a groom.
... it'd make a difference, but the rest of the media has turned into Fox Lite because they bought into the whole 'fair and balanced' line of horseshit.
This is inexcusable, and they need to be made an example of. This crap in no longer put in by a responsible op, but by news people with agendas.
we use it properly. Proceeding on false premises makes one wrong from the start. Thank you Fox. Keep up the good work.
Here's the pic.
they (fox) just don't miss an opportunity to piss people off. oh you have great home page /banner photography.
What pisses me off the most is that fucking people BELIEVE Fox.
This is from another site I was on:
I've seen this girl go all gooper on other threads (this is not a political site, it's a celebrity site...yeah, yeah, go on, give me shit for that...one of my stupid pleasures) but she, and many others, take Fox as THE gospel. Not just Fox but Newsbusters and Drudge.
They have become the sheeple that they always accuse anyone who has anything positive about Obama of being.
To not just their detriment but that of the country.
i guess it can be said we all believe in something and/or somebody but this demographic does NOT cross reference or check info. fox is hoping to get the casual numb skull that just has the idiot box on. there are plenty of businesses that have fox on with no sound. they know what they're doing. fox loves to push the envelope on the it's okay to lie and cheat as long as we do it to beat (d)/liberals. they never miss an opportunity. they are dirtier.
It's par for the course of what you can expect from a propaganda channel like fox. Neither is it a surprise that some of the wingNuts would believe it as well. These are people who listen to fat boy for three hours every day and believe that he is telling them the truth and that he is a virtual genius, I call them dittiots, sheeple works just as well.
This whole thing illustrates exactly how pathetic and useless the GOOP has become and always has been.
Fox News did the same thing with (male page chaser) Representative Mark Foley, by putting a (D) next to his name as well. Fox's excuse was that it was "just a mistake."
I'm guess it's a ladyboy that's his dear, dear friend.
Shemale, llama, little boys, I tell ya when these extremists scream about "family values" it's always something freakish and bizarre with them. Always.
I have two things to say to this. One: there actually ARE transsexuals who read C&L. I'm one of them. Two: the word "shemale" is the equivalent of the "N" word to most transsexuals. It's VERY offensive. So knock it the hell off.
Mark Sanford could be cornholing capybaras for all I care. It's the hypocrisy that's galling.
It occurs to me that the Repugs have trouble
controlling Their One Eyed Snakes!
Ok bend over and spread em. Here comes old one eye.
Roll up your sleeve and bend over.
(5 extra points if you can tell me the record it was on.)
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their first, All Hail
It was on their second album, "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all", but which did say All Hail Marx and Lennon on the cover.
we will always have Porgy and Mudhead.
Those lovable but stupid movies, including "High School Madness."
"Gee, Dad. No one can stop you from being Dog Killer this time. You're a natural!"
"Anyway, you stay out of trouble, boy. Your shennaigans could cost me this election."
my favorite from Everything you know is Wrong,
"Two flying saucers have just landed on my plate"
Give him something for his cough, Doc!
Okay, here's a quarter...
That ain't much for a cough.
It ain't much of a cough.
He's no fun. He fell right over.
sexual transgressions has now officially been carved into sawdust.
Sorry, boys, no more room to list any more miscreants. The rest of ye need to keep it zipped up tight, for conservations' sake.
I mean, did he really confirm it was a female? Is he a member of the promise breakers? If so, the bets are on the other fellow. Evita may be the name, but..... 6 days with the person to say good bye?
not much real information comes from a tic even when they feign remorse.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls.
Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola.
Really? How about "I resign"? That has a nice ring.
Eventually while this lovely Christian Promise Keeper is beinng roasted under oath, his excuses will be a recorded, "On advice of council I regret that I must fall upon by Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer that question, Senator."
Four on the floor and a fifth under the seat.
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Troglodyticus Republicanus Hypocriticus Assholiness.
Bwaahahahahahahaha...hehehehehehe...hahahahahaha.....cough..hehehehehehehehe.....woohoohoohoohoohoo.....hehehehe.......hahahahahahahaha. oh shit that's funny. Sociopathic rightwing fascist asshole gets his.
Thought you guys down in South Carolina didn't need no stimulatin'? LOL!
ROFLMAO! How many times can a bible thumping hypocrite evil asshole burn the dupes and morons in the GOP - before they figure it out?
You evangelicals are following a false prophet named republican.
Oh, and the fat-assed pig of a bitch Candy Crowley was on explainging to us that the democrats are just as bad. What is the ratio of R to D that have been perverts, rapists and adulterers? 10:1, 100:1?
And buy the way MSM apologists, liberals don't go around throwing their bible's in everyones face. Nor do they go around preaching to them about how they should live their lives through their self-righteous condescending morals. Then, turn around and attack innocent people who just want to live their lives in peace (gays) for evil political gains, because they have nothing of value to offer 98% of the american people.
If there is a Hell, everyone of these GOP sociopath's should get box seats in the front row, right next to the furnace.
Republicans are gonna circle the wagons and support the lying hypocrite staying on as Gov. Amazing. Being an atheist, I'm so jealous of moralistic, hyper-religious people. They can do ANYTHING and as long as they ask for god's forgiveness they can get away with it. How easy was THAT?
their sins. And they assume their God forgives them. All y'all know what "assume" means.
They also forget that you are supposed to fully intend to never commit that sin again. You are actually supposed to be trying to live your life like Christ...even if most of them don't.
They always forget the, "Go, and sin no more" part.
It's not like he decided to man up to what he did. He was caught where he wasn't supposed to be and he had to say something.
but but but but but but you didn't cover ..........john edwards very much. i wonder if we'll get another dose of that nonSense.
Democrats are baby killing America haters who want to marry their dog. We don't claim any moral superiority.
I assume that as a Republican in a Bible belt state he has to have declared his moral superiority as a Christian. How much of a God botherer is this guy supposed to be?
Are there ANY republicans who have been faithful to their wives? Any at all?
I laughed when I first read this, but I can't think of one. Except, maybe Nixon, who was so self-important and nasty, no one would sleep with him.
Sorry POP.
;)
How do you know that I didn't? Okay, I didn't. Just the thought is frightening.
Hoover comes to mind?
that her little boy would grow up to invent vacuum cleaner!
(Firesign Theatre)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj6CDSBqgzc&fe...
Pat was always so drunk...she probably didn't know she was still married to him.
Well in all fairness, I was refering to the current crop of republican (or as I call them republican'ts), it's a damn shame you have to go back thirty years to find one fathful to his wife.
Are there ANY republicans who have been faithful to their wives? Any at all?
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ronny raygunn,
But then he thought his wife was his mommy.
Nancy Reagan was wife #2 for Ronnie - and yes, he was boffing her before his divorce from wife #1...
Sweet Jesus Herbert Christ, this is just Too. Damn. FUNNY. Another one of the Family Values Party's golden children demonstrates - in the most spectacular way - that he's human.
Mmmm, the sweet stink of hypocrisy. Smells like - rotting pineapple.
I'm sure the question is being asked in some GOP circles: "Why could Mark fool around here? Ain't there enough American girls?"
that a republican is a cheater.
They can't impeach him for having sex. Didn't he say he was going hiking on the Appalachian Trail? So impeach him for lying. (like they did Clinton)
for walking off the effing JOB and not telling ANYONE where he was?
.. not just as Chair of the Republican Governors Association, but from his position as Governor of South Carolina.
He is WAY too self-centered and WAY too wrapped up in his own personal drama to have any energy or concern for the people of South Carolina.
He and his wife and his Xtian buddies have been "working through" his infidelity for the LAST FIVE MONTHS .. while he's done nothing else but fight to deny stimulus funds for South Carloinians.
His OWN Republican Legislature overturned his vetoes of the Stimulus Funds .. and the SC Supreme Court ORDERED him to accept them.
NOW he wants to spend time travelling around the state repairing his relationships with all his friends.
He can do that on his OWN TIME.
RESIGN YOU COWARD.
Any other person would be fired from their job for not showing up without telling anybody. Why should politicians be any different?
Disappear from your job for a week without notice. When you come back, your stuff has been mailed to your home along with your last paycheck and someone else is sitting at your desk.
he didn't lie under oath, like Clinton did. Bush and Cheney were smarter than Clinton in that respect. They insisted on giving testimony without taking the oath.
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Clinton didn't lie under oath. He answered a question from paula jones lawyers that was very detailed in it's definition of sex, but didn't include the mouth. So Clinton's response was in a deposition that, "She (Monica Lewinsky) may have had sex with me, but not me with her." The lawyers were also asking about the affair in the present tense; even the Starr Report refered to it in the past tense.
A deposition can be amended later.
The perjury was never proven that's why the Senate acquitted him.
When he was fined later it was for obstructing the court with his unresponsive responses, not for perjury.
Then when he was in front of the Starr Commission, he admitted to an improper relationship, and refused to go into any details.
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