Mark Sanford reveals he met with his mistress 7 times and calls her his "soul mate"
By John Amato Tuesday Jun 30, 2009 2:00pmIs Sanford completely off his rocker? I understand about love, but why is he giving passionate interviews with the AP? And does he think he'll save his marriage by telling them that his lover is his "soul mate?"
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his Argentine mistress his "soul mate" Tuesday, but said that he would try to fall back in love with his wife.
Sanford also admitted Tuesday that he saw Maria Belen Chapur more times than previously disclosed, and that he had "crossed lines" with a handful of women other than his mistress in the past -- but never had sex with them.
In a lengthy and emotional interview with The Associated Press in his Statehouse office Tuesday, the governor described five meetings with Maria Belen Chapur over the past year, including two romantic, multi-night stays with her in New York before they met there again intending to break up.
He said he met her two other times -- their first meeting in 2001 at an open-air dance spot in Uruguay and a coffee date in New York in 2004 during the Republican National Convention. He said neither time was romantic.
It was the first disclosure of any liaisons with Chapur in the United States and contradicted a public confession last week during which Sanford admitted to a total of five encounters over their eight-year relationship...read on
He's lied so many times already about this that it's hard to keep up. Did anyone really believe he saw her only three times in eight years? And now he admits to reaching out to other women too.
Sanford also said he had "let his guard down" with some physical contact with women other than Chapur and his wife, but "didn't cross the sex line." He wouldn't go into detail. Sanford said the casual encounters happened outside the U.S. while he was married but before he met Chapur.
Did Sanford tell the AP what the Bible says about "letting his guard down?" What does that even mean? It means that he's a player and has been for a long time.
Will his wife think he should be given a second chance after reading and hearing about all of this? Sanford is a mess and can't stop talking about "Maria." Isn't there a show on the BBC about Maria?
I think there's a reality show in this somewhere. Does Sanford really want to stay married? It certainly sounds like he'd rather have the media send love notes to Maria, his true soul mate than make up with his wife.
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So because she was his sole mate, it makes it all ok. When others have had their affairs splashed all over the front page, Sanford has pushed for their resignation, Democrat or Republican. But now, he says he'll be a better person if he sticks around. He won't be a better person, he's just showing us he is a giant hypocrite.
Mark Sanford doesn't have time to be a representative. I don't want a part time Governor, or a part time President, or anything else for that matter, when there's plenty of people that would gladly work full time for the people.
Hey, Mark, if the Argentinean is indeed your soul mate -- or at least somebody whose "tan lines" you admire -- then quit the governorship and get on the next plane to Buenos Aires. Quit being such a wimp and hypocrite.
And, no, I'm not going to forgive you for the way you hounded Bill Clinton.
BID
why doesn't he just publicly kick his wife into a mud puddle. It would be kinder than publicly proclaiming his love for another. He is a cruel bastard. Very Clintonesque!
"South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his Argentine mistress his "soul mate" Tuesday, but said that he would try to fall back in love with his wife."
Way to humiliate your entire family, especially your poor wife, who is probably feeling almost suicidal about now, and worthless. But hey, as long as you keep it all about you, fuck her, right... Champ??
Though the offenses are very different, the behavior is similarly cuckoo, egocentric, and deluded.
..wives vs. soulmates? Which way should you go if you don't want to burn in hell?
Become a Mormon Fundamentalist ... problem solved.
It's hard to imagine a more adolescent, immature adult. His poor sons.
isn't being deliberately abusive, in his special Christian passive-aggressive way.
so HE'LL feel better. This isn't about some familial features that decorate his seedy life. It's all about him and his pecker. His wants, needs and desires.
As I said on a previous thread, he seems to think tightening the noose around his neck will keep him safe if he falls off the chair.
If I were his wife and heard this bullshit about his "soul mate" his ass would be divorced so fu*king fast his head would spin. I'd also go after as much child support as I could get. The guy has lost his mind along with any respect his kids probably ever had for him.
A father does not go on national media and talk about details concerning his lover. He not only has no shame, he has no concern for his family either.
I agree. If I was Mrs. Sanford's divorce attorney I would make sure that Governor Sanford was so poor, that he would need to borrow money to ride the bus.
all along.
SkilSaw. Watch this dork ask for alimony. And custody of his beloved kids.
Yes, I know it's an oxymoron but still - he does realize that SHE's the one with the money, right??!!??
i said before and i continue to believe he needs to resign. this guy asked his wife during marriage therapy if he could continue to see this other woman. i believe i got that correct. wow ENsign must feel left out with sanford getting all the media love.
family on the payroll.
Hope Sanford keeps talking about his love for his soulmate. It shows the stupidity of them bible thumping nitwits that elected the liar and cheater.
>>Sanford also said he had "let his guard down" with some physical contact with women other than Chapur and his wife, but "didn't cross the sex line."<<
Doh....I can't resist...
Does he smoke cigars?
Cubby, as I recall, was an original Mousketeer.
Meeska, mooska, mousketeer. Mouse cartoon time now is here.
GD greedy boomers.
She's his "soulmate". He's "crossed the line" with other women. He's going to "try" to fall back in love with his wife. I wonder what she's got to say about that? Has she gone in for AIDS testing? And he plays this soap opera out in the national media. What a lowlife jerk! Pack your bags and hit the road, Jack!
I just want to say EEEWWWWW!!!!!!!
Sanford is just your Typical Republican.
Not all there.
Unbelievable. An honourable man would ask forgiveness and step aside. Completely aside, resign, make amends to those he could, STFU, and disappear.
He's grandstanding trying to act like he's one heck-uv-a guy.
Throw some rotten vegetables at him and run him off the podium.
Mrs, Sanford, sue this sucker until he's a bag man. Cruel and unusual punishment.
... this would sure be some incentive for reconciliation; knowing my husband considered some other bint his 'soulmate', romantically caught in a soap operatic tragic love story a la Tristan and Iseult, Abelard and Heloise, Popeye and Olive Oyl, but would be making the supreme sacrifice of valiantly trying to get his pecker up whenever he looked at me, his runner-up, second-best, make-do, stuck-with-er ho-hum wife and mother of four boys, and y'know what pregnancy does to tan lines... while apparently still begging her permission to visit his adored mistress... and lusting in his heart for other women... the hits just keep on comin'.
I hope Jenny Sanford has enough sense and self-esteem to take out a restraining order on this idiot, not let him back in.
And a little birdie just whispered in my ear that she's the SkilSaw heiress, rolling in the dosh, no wonder Sanford wants to hang on to his wife. Now that is the basis for true love Republican style - money, money, money...
like a repug. look at McGramps. his wife waited 5 years for him. he gets back and looks at her and he is out looking. finds a rich bimbo with money,money, money, courts her for a year, STILL married( as if he gives a shit) lockes it in and then tells his wife, I dont need you anymore I have a gold mine. look at nute fatass, droverceed his wife while she was in hospital and married the chick he was shacking up with for a year. repugs, the NEW FAMILY VALUES PEOPLE AND ALL GOOD CHRISTANS.
if this woman is your "soul mate", you leave your wife and marry her, you stay with your wife and she forgives you totally, or you decide to "take the bus". You do NOT belong in politics if you feel that you can abandon you office willy-nilly whenever you feel like you're in "love". That's what this is about, not your affair, not your "love", not even your hypocrisy. It's that you are a total irresponsible fraud of a human being.
Sorry, meant as a post not as a response.
You're absolutely right. It isn't about who he screwed...
...except that he screwed his constituents in the process.
You hit every nail square on the head. If she takes him back now, she's a fool.
Michael Jackson took him off the front pages, so what does he do? Says stupid things in interviews to make sure people start talking about him again??!?
Of course the real outrage isn't him trying to hog the limelight, but in the damage he's doing to his family. He's a selfish, cruel man.
Awwwww, his soul mate. Makes you just almost want to forget about the lying and the infidelity and the all the hypocrisy.
Eh, not really.
I bet you his wife wants to cut his balls off now though
Unless your physically challenged... your free will protects you from yourself! It's often referred to as "WILL POWER"! :-/
god's law... please stop blaming god. :(
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Exodus 20:7 KJV)
Whether he saw the woman 1 time, 7 times, or 70 - what difference does it make?
Why add embarrassing details to what he's already admitted to? I'm starting to get the feeling this clown is excited by his confession - that it gets him all worked up and salivating to call himself a bad boy and beg for forgiveness in the media.
Shut your sorry-hole and resign, ya bonehead.
He fathered 71 sons through many wives plus a mistress in Shechem. --So much for monogamy and fidelity. Is this how the hotel-bible Gideon Society expects us to demonstrate family values?
"And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech." (Judges 8:30-31)
Did Gideon not have any daughters? Perhaps daughters were just too insignificant to mention.
Think about it?
and go to confession with Peggy Noonan on a weekly basis until his fingers are blistered from the rosary before I will ever believe him again and again and again.
Guys like Sanford make me remember why I gave up on daytime television. What a fucking soap opera.
I'm thinking it's a calculated strategy. Make the public feel sorry for your infidelity, and forget about the fact that you ABANDONED YOUR DUTIES for days on end.
I actually don't actually CARE how many women he fucked. I'm more concerned at how he fucked the people of his state with his dereliction of duty and use of public funds for his goddamned trysts.
Resign, Sanford, you sanctimonious prick. Eliot Spitzer may have hurt his wife, but he had the strength of character to apologize to the people of New York State and step down. And knowing what he knew about the Wall Street meltdown, I'd vote for him again in a New York minute!
I thought it was always soap operas from the beginning except for Queen for a Day and Bob Barker?
When I had an afternoon shift, I got sucked in watching because my aunt who lived at my house watched them and I didn't have the heart to change the channel on her. Besides, there wasn't anything else worth watching at the time!
which week, which trip, which state, which country?. He runs away from his job for some tail and he thinks it's about his diddles. That's right Mark, it's all about your drawers and where you hide the state seal. You left your state without your own personal finger on the nuclear trigger. It's 3AM and you are not asleep, you have the ring on, Barry White (at least his name is white) and you are singing "Don't cry for me Argentina, you would have thought I could avoid this, you take your car back, that's not my problem, you keep your distance, I want my goat back" Whew.
Are they all this dumb? And it's priceless getting Lindsay to your rescue! Is Pearls about to come out?
Sanford = massive hypocrite = lousy representative.
Regards from Beaufort County, SC, where Sanford's good friend Tom Davis is our "representative" (state senator) in what has got to be the most dysfunctional legislature in the country, and where Sanford's mother, Margaret, also resides and where he owns 1500 acres of plantation. Oh wait, we're calling them farms now.
Over at the local rag's blog (blufftontoday.com) there is still some defense for Sanford and a serious debate about whether he should resign or be kicked out or what. The problem is, of course, Lt Gov Andre Bauer, who is a flake with the kind of judgment that allowed him to drive a state car 101 mph and then lean on the trooper who pulled him over. Is that really better than a guy who can't seem to manage a love life and a job at the same time?
Ay ay ay.
ex-Fair Play native here (waaay other end of the state)
He isn't being defended much up there (see Anderson Independent comments), but it is admitted he has a "Cheney defense" ... as in yes, the guy that would replace him is worse.
BUT! I hear the deal now is to get Mr. "S.C. 2" to step in and replace him, but thereby making himself ineligible to run for governor next term. That sounds almost smart. What, 18 months of facepalming, but then maybe a better field next election.
for your individual action(s)... Is the day I'll respectfully forgive you. Unless you truly believe... this literature is your guide?
How many regular sexual partners did King Solomon have?...
...One thousand sexual partners. --At least one thousand. Another fine example of family values from one of God's favorites.
"But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites . . . And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines." (I Kings 11:1-3)
Notice that this lifestyle is never denounced by God, Jesus, or the biblical writers. Solomon, supposedly an ancestor of Jesus, was praised by Jesus: "all his glory" (Matthew 6:29), "wisdom of Solomon" (Matthew 12:42). Jesus compared himself (not so humbly) to Solomon's greatness: "a greater than Solomon is here." (Luke 11:31)
is a real histroy book. the bible is a nice fiction book that has no facts. just made up by people who were never around when this jesus guy was aline, that is IF he was real at all.
FYI, I'm an atheist. ♥
I know... it's hard to tell.
Amended: As well, some of the afformentioned comment, is in "fact"... in the buy-bull. whether it's the one Sanford uses, I'm not sure.
Me an atheist as well, but having knowledge of the bible is sooo much fun to throw in the faces of so-called Christians.
Wasn't Solomon the son of King David who had his one of his "hittite" soldiers killed so he could screw his wife Bathseba?
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 16:31 — floydgeorge108
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What kind of a line does Jesus use?
http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphic...
must have been through Mary?
Anyway, I find it absolutely hypocritical that any self-proclaimed believer can admit they have a doctor. They are supposed to be healed through their belief, sometimes with the help of their minister, sometimes with annointing oil, and sometimes through direct appeal. A trip to an emergency ward, on Sunday, is proof of their inane belief system and self-deception.
That should get some points with the Oprah Crowd.
Any day where a repug is shooting his/her foot off (again) on the front page is a very good day indeed.
one of these goodie too shoes starts thinking "god" will forgive him if he says in the bible it says king david did this and god forgave him. this guy was thinking with his little head. found a hot chick and she jumped on it. got it on with a governer. this guy is not in love, he is in LUST. I wonde just how old she is, say 24 or 26. Just another old fart getting a pice of ass from a younger woman. then when mike craps out and takes over the news(?) he come back and sticks his foot back in his mouth and says, ther is more, let me tell you about. what a ass. mark,you are one jerk, a wife and 4 boys, hope they treat you the way you have treated them.
this is how a christan acts, how do I join, I can go horeing and god will forgive me. I know god was helping that boxer beat the shit out of a nother boxer, no, he was helping that race car driver win the race he was in,no, he was ? he was helping Santa plan x-mass.
Guys like Sanford are 'touched' with religion to put it politely, and do not belong in positions where they are responsible for the welfare of others. Period. Why is that so hard to get? No Republicans are up to the task.
Does she come with chips?
I wonder if it's occurred to Sanford that he's quite possibly been expertly seduced - to the point of leaving his wife and skipping out on his duties - because he WAS a leading Republican with a shot ar 2012. The Soviets used this ploy and called it a honey trap.
Can't wait to see him get tossed by Jenny, skip off to Argentina and find out Maria's handlers don't give a shit about him anymore.
Honey Trappe would be a great name for a James Bond Babe.
Sodamn Insane suggested back in the days that Monica Lewinsky was a honey trap set up by Mossad.
This guy's so full of shit, no wonder he was a GOP frontrunner for 2012.
Republican = corruption
That's like Bill Clinton saying how good Monica was with her toungue.
So were those panty lines he crossed? Making out? Feeling up? Dry humping? And I guess there is a dependency on what one's definition of 'is' is...hand jobs or teh 'non-sexual' oral?
I guess the other women were not full hikes, but just strolls along the wood line where the Appalachian trail met a highway somewhere. But I did hear once his lady friends left him for the night, out of sheer frustration he ended up hiking the trail furiously all by himself for the rest of the evening.
Seeing he is such a romantic maybe when Sanford leaves office maybe he could get a job writing the verses in Hallmark Valentine cards.
Maybe something like:
Roses are red,
Violets are Blue,
I love my mistress,
But my wife will have to do.
I'd say: "good riddance to bad garbage!"
Exactly - he thinks he can redeem himself by becoming a martyr - sacrificing his true love for his religion and his family. He doesn't even realize his religion has turned him cold to others' feelings, even his wife's - no empathy. How can you 'represent' the people if you are void of empathy? - you can't!
I love the people smiling in the background throughout. I think they really know what a pathetic joke this all is.
Sanford is a total loser.
The answer is probably no. And over at Kos they think hey know why and I am inclined to agree. DISTRACTION.
"Why Sanford wants to talk about his sex life
by Jed Lewison
Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 03:30:08 PM PDT
Mark Sanford seems eager to talk about his sex life:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he "crossed lines" with a handful of women other than his mistress — but never had sex with them. The governor said he "never crossed the ultimate line" with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed his once-promising political career.
"This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story," Sanford said. "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day."
Why is Sanford so eager to talk up his sexcapades and heartache? Because he knows that people will -- and should -- ultimately forgive his human frailty. His sex life is none of our business, except insofar as it impacts his public duties, or when it demonstrates his rank hypocrisy.
Sanford knows he's crossed far over the line on both the hypocrisy front and the public duties front. The last thing he wants to talk about is his erratic behavior, his attempt to spend 10-days AWOL in Argentina, or his misuse of authority to arrange a trade mission to visit his mistress.
So instead, he decides to blab about his sex life in a disparate attempt to distract attention from the real issue: his breach of the public trust as governor."
It is rather awkward to do the bumpdebump on a rocker.
It's all in the positions.
ya gotta work at it.
And ya need a sturdy rocker.
practice makes perfect!
;)
What about once you get momentum going?
:)
and ride the wave! Woohoo!
:)
Oh my stars. I never...
Thanks for the chuckle, cal! 8-D
;)
Sounds like my Junior High report card.
I needed the laugh.
Cal, To think that your promiscuous.:)
You fornicator you. :P
;)
♥
Amended: Force - Pendulum Collision Balls
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoX4eGdE1U ](0:36)
Don't come a peekin' when the chair's a squeakin'!
Thassawhat lubricants for.
The squeaky wheel always gets the grease!
Oh great...
Now where moving from rockers to wheel chairs?
(Time to watch The Shadow, as he fights the evil Black Tiger.)
has much more class than Sanford.
I really believe Sanford may totally lack the capacity for empathy. It really is true that some people lack this capacity, and they appear to get by OK. It just doesn't pay to let them become politicians. We need politicians that are attracted to policy making and politics through empathy with peoples needs, not through personal ambition and greed.
OT - but - Cheney's one percent doctrine sucks!
Cheney's favorite dogmatic reasoning "one might speculate". "one may speculate" that Cheney's mouth is a threat to national security. One may speculate that Cheney's mouth has a greater than one percent chance of starting another war, or inciting domestic terrorism, needlessly costing countless thousands of lives and billions in treasure, and therefore it must be considered as a certainty. I submit that by his own doctrine, that Cheney should be ordered to wear a muzzle.
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If Mark Sanford had any brains at all, the brains in his cranium, not the one in his dick, he would seriously STFU.
that fella' would have his head caved in by a hard swung frying pan. Then she'd kick his sorry ass to the curb.
Mama wouldn't put up with crap like that and I wouldn't have much respect for her if she did.
Lame ass loser.
It has been hot here for at least a week. Really, really hot. Today I noticed that the temp on my car gauge was 104. Anyway the landscapers showed up on Saturday when I really had given up on them. They were moving very slowly, which I could understand. When I gave them some ice, they looked like they didn’t even recognize what it was. They seemed almost in some kind of stupor. (Yes, I know it could have been a chemical stupor, but I’m thinking it was more of a heat-related stupor). So today I see their battered old truck parked across my street under a tree, and I’m thinking, "It's Tuesday, WTH?". So a little later I go over and talk to Bandanna Guy who is just hanging out there. I bet he weighs 120 even soaked with sweat. He showed me a tire that had a tread just flapping. He said he had told “the boss” (Robert or Tyrone) and that they thought they could make it through the day to do some tree stuff for one of my neighbors, but no they couldn’t. I just feel so bad for them. And by the way, these are the people that Governor Sanford has looked down his patrician nose at and whose education he has begrudged while going on and on about bootstraps and his own boyhood farm work (on the 1500 acre plantation his family owns). I guarantee you that they do not have the luxury of finding a soulmate in Argentina. Robert’s latest “getaway” was probably to County for not paying child support.
-1 style point for linking to the article about the tv show that takes its title from the song, but not including a link to the song.
Sorry, pal, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em. :P
Okay, I concede I look like this guy after a month long bender:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fP1mI58YM78/Rl8ypKN...
I found this picture of who I thought were you(on the right) and ron!
I found this picture of (l-r) mudshark and calgarylady.
linky no worky ... we ain't blank slates, ya know ... :)
I'll save my response for a better time. Doood.:)
Ginger and Mary Ann must be nearby ....
After Skill-Saw Heiress gets done with her Appalachian Hiker his body parts will be on display in Capital Rotunda.
Personally, I would just go with the wood chipper. Nothing to see here!
hasn't this asshat ever heard when you're in a hole this deep - STOP DIGGING! What a tool!
First rule of 'holes'............stop digging! Second rule; throw the dirt OUT of the hole you're digging!
No honor, no honesty, no integrity, no morality, no intelligence, all greed and hubris.
republicanism is a mental illness!
he knows how confessions have worked out in the past for this situation, so he is going on a different tract.
He is actually getting his rocks off with his girlfriend, and if we don't like it, tough!
Nasty man he is
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his Argentine mistress his "soul mate" Tuesday, but said that he would try to fall back in love with his wife.
I'm sure his wife is flattered by that comment? Can you say 'sloppy seconds'? What woman would even consider reconciling after a comment like that?
WOW!
Best comment I've seen recognized this latest SC soap opera episode for what it is - the coward's way out of the marriage. Keep revealing such bad stuff that Jenny will never take him back and will file for the divorce instead.
"Let my guard down...didn't cross the sex line". I'm guessing he squeezed an employee's boob. He expects her to come forward soon.
By comparing himself to King David on the question of his not having to resign, because David didn't, Sanford was setting us up for the really hard sell. He should get to keep his job, his wife, and his soulmate, all three at once, because King David had a harem, and King David was an unassailably holy man and all-around Good Guy, just like Sanford.
I'm sick to my stomach with the christians, GOP leaders and their elected politicians who are defending and saying Sanfords sex life, fornication and adultry are NO ONES business - that it's personal - between Sanford, his wife and God. These are the same Christian Republican's who were ELECTED to office MAKING AN ISSUE out of the sex lives of gays, bisexuals, transgenders, straights and ANYONE who is a Democrat. If Sanford's, self-admitted fornication, adultry deceit, dishonesty, lies and hypocrisy are NO ONES BUSINESS but his and his wife...and it DOES NOT EFFECT his ability to be an effective Governor. Then neither are the sex lives of gays, bisexuals, trisexuals, transgenders, straights, drag queens, polar bears, peanuts or petunias THEIR BUSINESS...or its effect on their abiity to effectively work, contribute to society and be a tax payer. The real slap in the face to these holier-then-thou rank and file christians, their ministers, GOP leaders and elected politicans: the DIVORCE RATE (per membership) of the leading denomination which controls the GOP is higher than ANY other denomination in the US....that is the destroyer of the family units...not gays, or demon democrates. DOUBLE-STANDARS of the Christian GOP and their disgusting HYPOCRISY!
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