Mark Sanford's Houdini act gets weirder by the hour: Turns out he was in Argentina
By John Amato Wednesday Jun 24, 2009 10:00am
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's disappearing act makes no sense. All his hopes to run for President in 2012 as Mr. Conservative are shot to hell. First we're told he was out hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Now it turns out he was on a "pleasure" trip to Argentina:
Sanford flew to Atlanta early on Wednesday and told reporters for The State, South Carolina's biggest newspaper, he had decided at the last minute to go to Argentina and drive along its coastline.
"I wanted to do something exotic ... to get out of the bubble I am in," he told the paper, adding he had traveled alone.
How can he be trusted when his wife hasn't even heard from him in almost a week?
A CNN reporter tracked down Jenny Stanford at her Sullivan Island vacation home. Sounding less like the wife of a 2012 presidential contender and more like America's favorite reality TV star announcing her separation from her husband, she said: "I am being a mom today. I have not heard from my husband. I am taking care of my children."
Jenny Stanford had helped stoke the story yesterday when she told the AP she didn't know where her husband was.
Notice how Sanford's wife doesn't say "our" children. She says "I am taking care of my children." That's powerful stuff. And he was gone for Father's Day.
Earlier reports said this:
On Tuesday, sources told News 4's Nigel Robertson that a state vehicle is missing and was tracked down, not to the Appalachian Trail, but to the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.Sources told Robertson that a federal agent spotted Sanford in the airport boarding a plane. Robertson was told that the governor was not accompanied by security detail.Sanford has been out of reach for more than four days, including Father's Day.
What's wild is that everyone in his state has turned on him:
"While I believe every person deserves a vacation, our constitution gives only one man authority to act in case of an emergency - the governor of South Carolina. Should the governor decide to vacation away from South Carolina again, it is my sincere hope that he will take his security detail and keep his cell phone on so that he can be reached in case of a large-scale emergency," the statement said.
"If he is not willing to do so, he should turn his gubernatorial authority over to the lieutenant governor,” it continued. Neither Sanford’s office nor the State Law Enforcement Division, which provides security for governors, had been able to reach Sanford since he left the mansion Thursday in a black Suburban SUV assigned to his security detail, said state Sen. Jake Knotts , R-Lexington, and three others familiar with the situation, but who declined to be identified.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1yih-p6uiw&fe...
admits to an affair.
Golly gee.
Two in one week.
One from out state, Nevada.
One from SC
What the hell are the drinking?
Did he do research on Argentina's many financial crises and what happens when you fail to reign in your Oligarchs?
Enquiring minds SHOULD want to know.
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Update - I see, just another wayward weenie, so what.
Or was I seeing the future?
LOL
Or am I finally just losing my rocker?
I'm goin with the lost rocker.
}:)>
Problem is I remember everything and forget nothing.
That would drive me crazy...I've forgotten more than most people know...but the stuff I've forgotten is all useless trivia.
Well I like what Moe Syzlak said
(It ain't on Youtube)
I've done some things I ain't proud of
And what I am proud of is disgusting...
That one works fine without the video. Thanks ys.
Yeah...good ol' Moe...
I wish I could remember everything and forget nothing.
Actually, there are a few things in my mind which could use a dose of brain bleach.
Nevermind. ;-)
..and Moe.
I lost MY rocker.
Latina Hookers - 2 to 1 odds
Young latino boys - 3 to 1 odds
Drugs - 5 to 1 odds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol8NCwi9Un0&fe...
Options B AND C - rush limbaugh's dream vacation.
Ok, exactly what i was thinking. Like you said drugs or weird sex.
Or maybe, religion. I was looking for the ancient religious mumboJumbo, I was reading about. It has to do with Noah's arch, and parting of the red sea. We were to flee to south American mountains to hide in caves when Jesus' brother came to kill him. Jesus' bro was going to bring floods and horrible weather, he was going to turn gravity upside down and all......Some Sort of crap like that, I tried to put it out of my mind seeing as how Nasa kinda sorta backs this up.
I will make this easier to understand;
Ancient religion took objects in the sky and gave them human names and personalitys.
Jesus is the sun, that big yellow thing that rises in the morning and sets at night.
His Bro, is a binary star, has an orbit like a comet, orbits our sun(Jesus).
Judas is due to come at the end of the Mayan calendar, end times, when we step into the age of Aquarius.
PlanetX or Nibiru can only been seen in the South American skys, maybe that's what he was looking for.....
The star is smoldering that is Iridium, the cloud of dust is RED(parting of red sea was in the sky!), the dinosaurs extinct about the same time a red film of dust covered the earth.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5asam_nibir...
OK, it's back out of my mind, you search, I am not going too.
Some say, this is why the Military and the rich elites stole our money, to save themselves, they supposedly are building underground city's.....just an internet rumor that combines religion and scientific facts, nothing to worry about, keep on keep oning.
Huh?
LOL. I should have know better, a republican interested in religious history and science, pfft.
but so what...
I think the man is depressed, and is freaking out a bit, and had to get away from everything and everyone he knew.
If I could do it, I would...but I would damn sure let my loved ones know where I was going, and when to expect me back.
Where time off from work is for wimps. And your considered a sissy if you don't repudiate anything that smacks of maternal care taking.
it's ok if your a GOP politician to just run off on an unscheduled vacation because your "stressed", but heaven forfend that the average American actually demand paid vacation time.
Just another hit on the GOP Cavalcade of Hypocrisy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTWQcCqa6IQ
Especially leaving your kids on Father's Day seems a wee bit selfish if you ask me.....which no one did.
being ruthless maladjusted bastards.
I'm just trying to understand why.
Leaving your family on Fathers day is kinda messed up, but IF he IS depressed, that sort of thing doesn't matter.
But you might want to clue your wife in before you leave.
boring story!
And she'd BETTER have food on the table when I get back too! HA! Kidding! };p>
And I wouldn't leave until AFTER fathers day, so I could enjoy the bright and shiny material goods that society tells wives and children they must buy for their fathers.
I guess all that stress made him feel like the Apollo 13 astronauts trapped in space...or maybe like the poor homeless person ...or a family with small children and no job and no healthcare...or the Iranian protestors putting their lives on the line...
These GOP fuckers are so fucking clueless it is beyond comprehension.
Neither of us run a state. Neither of us has to make what could be potential life or death decisions for others.
Whether he was on the Appalachian trail or the Incan trail, the fact remains that no one in his state knew where he was. What if the plane he was on had gone down? (Air France, anyone?) Then what would have happened to the government in SC?
Who cares what this clown was doing (ok, I am curious to know if Mr. Conservative Values was with a hooker or on a Rush-like escapade...I loves me some good Republican hypocritical values)? But the fact remains that he left his security, got on a plane and no one knew about it.
No ridicule at all. We're plebs, sweetie. :-)
a Narcissist; at worst, a Sociopath.
...a meltdown of some sort. Whatever he was doing, it was so clumsy, silly and public that the guy must have fallen out of his tree.
Unless he was up to something unsavory, I almost feel sorry for the guy. This looks like a mental break (of course, being a Republican might do that to you. Hooooh! I couldn't leave it alone completely)
he was fucking someone, while his wife was at home with the kids. he just said.
I feel sorry for the kids. I had a dad like this guy, and believe me, this kind of fucker fucks everyone over, starting at home. He's cheated on the kids as well. Nice. He's fucked over the the kids in a most cruel and public way.
You don't need to feel sorry for the guy. He's doing enough of that for the both of you and then some. And he'll be over it tomorrow, running around with the biggest titties in town. And half his age and younger too.
I wonder if she'll be standing next to him during the mea culpa bubye public life speech the Thugs are so goddammed good at.
...boning someone else?? Yeesh. I missed that. Hokay: sympathy OUT the window!
(still a meltdown, though. I mean, come on! Whatever happened to discretion? Not that I care if another repug goes down in flames, but I am just sayin'!)
these guys don't do meltdown like the rest of us.
He's resigned just about everything, but this is another opportunity for this living breathing boner.
I can barely even make fun of this. It's so preposterous! Well, have fun with that, you pile of Repukes. You deserve everything you have coming to you.
If only you could just act like normal political swine and not this amazing superswine you all have evolved into.
[glad NOT to have to feel ashamed of my party at THIS level]
and said the guvnah took a girlfriend to Argentina...
HA!
The fuckin hypocritical "family values" repukes just cannot help themselves!
Another one bites the dust.
Really????
These people are unreal!
What really gets me though is that the Republican Party will continue to hang in there, due to their amazing grip on teevee media and the ability to get on and lie, lie, spin, lie, deflect, and lie. And their constituency...will eat it up, like beaten dogs. [sigh]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRo8ITdwIM
Listen...this incompetent walked off his job without notice...he took a vacation unannounced because he was stressed!
You do that at work and see what happens!
Rest assured...notation will be made in your personal file, you will be reprimanded and you will NEVER EVER be considered for promotion or a raise for as long as you remain in that job.
His employer...his constituents...have every right to answers and every right to call for his recall.
If he's not up to the job...he should be FIRED. If he was a REAL man...he'd admit that he can't hack it...and quit.
...hahaha....I can hardly argue with the substance of what you are saying, but this meltdown is of such a preposterous caliber that part of me bleeds for his humanity (whatever was left after he cut most of it out in order to become a republican). I guess that is part of what makes me a liberal. A bleeding heart liberal at that. But heck, have at it! I don't have this fool's back. no way!
..it talks about his role as the Governor who is Governor, 365-24/7. He should have told his Lt. Gov. something, anything; he has that responsibility. But, you know, Republican - nothing more needs to be said. Of course he acted irresponsibly.
Most of who are so afraid these days of being reamed they send staff to speak with their constituents instead of showing up and "facing the music".
I think everyone is reading way too much into this than is really there.
what anyone thinks.
It's entertaining in a dark sort of way. He's a republican and if anyone can be entertaining, it's them.
of possibilities....BUT...I'm bettin, if it's not some sort of freak out on Sanfords part...there is somethin funky goin on...and not the good kinda funky either.
This excuse will be a classic.
Another empty GOP apology in the presence of a spouse who looks like she'd rather be a drunk female participant at a college hazing in....5...4...3...
Well he can't blame this on a black carjacker.
That doesn't mean they won't try though.
Or illegal immigrant?
Kurt Sonnenfeld?
http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html
“He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids” - Jenny Sanford (wife)
eee, political consultants would generally prefer any statement that ends with 'wanted some space to get away from the kids'... oof.
but, more importantly, i don't care what stress he was under, what scheme he was working on, etc. he shirked his responsibility to the people of SC and left the state without a leader.
the lieutenant governor should have been informed and been put in control during sanford's child-escape.
If my husband was gone this long and I didn't know where he was and then he returned home, things would be different here than when he left.
You mean like the locks?
Yeah, that too.
Mark Sanford, oh where did you wander?
Your aides said you're hiking out yonder.
If you just can't be seen
With a young Argentine
At least you could pack a transponder.
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Of course he was out with his mistress, or his man, or a prostitute, or whatever. Just playing the odds here-- I mean-- when a member of the "family values" ducks out of the country, or into a bathroom stall, or out on the town, it's *always* to indulge in the things they rant against.
... there are plenty of 'exotic' and 'scenic' places in the good ol' USA that Sanford could go to that would fit the bill. Remember when Cokie Roberts and other GOPpers were drumming Obama for going to Hawaii as if it were another planet?
The poll results are just so jaded!!!! How could you think such a thing? /snark
LOL. Sounds like something I would do.
I like disappearing and not telling anyone where I'm going. I walked towards the door 10 years ago with a small book bag on my shoulder and my roommate asked me where I was going. I replied "Amsterdam."
knowing no one absolutely has any clue as to where you are. Very invigorating and liberating.
if your any kind of a public figure, politician, celebrity, etc, you can forget freedom and privacy.
Not defending this lunk just stating a fact.
argentina good wine and skiing.
with our money.
Of course, he could've been at the Bohemian Grove in No.California, prancing about in some Owl costume or having wild sex with prositutes in Puerto Rico. Who knows?
anyway let me be honest I don't really care for this new wave of everyone has to know what everyone is doing at every freaking single second of the day and the electronic leash being promoted as must have cool stuff!
It's why I refuse to have a cell phone.
there's no free lunch in the public service arena. he's the "state ceo". privacy is a luxury.
Evet, that shit is so damn stupid to me.
I have a cell phone only because my job requires it, and I hate it.
I'd bet anything he was on Tralfamadore with Montana W.
that he was visiting a mistress or his gay lover.
If he was already in a gay marriage and cheated with a gay lover, does that make the gay lover his mrtress?
You win! It was a mistress
Ashley Madison.
Hey, it's an easy mistake to make, especially if you were in a hurry.
Both begin with and end with "A," you know.
I choose sex in the poll.
What do I win.
At least it was a woman.
The GOP is evolving.
.
What's wrong if it was a boyfriend?
.
But he's a hetero married man...and republican...and they don't like gay folks.
give Myspace employees their pink slips.
Sanford has been unfaithful to his wife,... big bombshell
When he started talking about god, I had a feeling what was coming next.
Someone said it before, I'll say it again...goodbye presidential bid.
Did he just say he was going to resign?
He's stepping down as governor from what I understood him to say.
Ok, I think he meant he was going to resign as Chairman of the GOP Association of Governors.
I bet Palin makes a bid to fill his spot before the week is over.
And he hers.
Oh, that shameless hussey.
Is there a lot of sex tourism there, does anyone know?
Really - I don't have health insurance so I really don't give a damn where Sanford's been. His wife and the people of SC (because they pay the guy) should give a crap, but I don't. Let's work on Single Payer health care, huh? And as for the poll, where's the "I don't give a crap" option?
on father's day no less... hopefully not on the taxpayer's dime. These God-loving, so-called conservatives who turn out to be a bunch of lying, cheating salesmen. They're a plague in this nation.
He wanted to 'clear his 'head''
:D
"These PIPES...ARE CLEAN!!!"
Vast majority of Republicans are furiously working away to ensure Americans are their slaves, fodder, and can't afford the luxury of peace of mind and relaxation and contemplation.
Only they are entitled to it.
This is getting ridiculous with the Republicans. He left on Fathers' Day to be with a mistriss. "Don't cry for Mark, Argentina."
Sanford: "Don't cry for me while I'm in Argentina".
Just another rightwing hypocrite asking for god's forgiveness.
I see the same redux of utmost hypocrisy- crocodile tears and good ol' boy Christian talkin' points- ENOUGH already! We've seen more than enough of this particular brand of travesty elsewhere- resign completely already!!
None for the wife. None for the kids.
That takes the fun out of everything!
I was right. Affair!
Did you get a load of the freakish, robotic response of his "wife?"
If she wasn't a frothing Christian loon I would have thought she was a long-term Scientology customer.
I guess she learned that the missionary position isn't enough.
Has anyone heard any Republican heads exploding yet? I could swear I just heard a few.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA
bookmarked, don't you? ;)
Yeah- you'd think by now a sufficiently critical mass would have been reached to rival that of Hiroshima.
Last night colbert replayed his interview he had with Sanford last year. The theme was that Sanford was boring. I guess Sanford put that to rest today.
Heh. At least his mistress doesn't think so.
is what the Republicans will do to distract us from this story?
"Yes. Yes I am. Taking care of my. Children. I am so happy that insert name here left. For a brief. Vacation in insert child rape tourism country here. Thank. You."
Shit, I was SOOOOO hoping that it was a dude he was fucking down there...
The only thing better than watching this stammering retrobate flush his life down the toilet, Boehner tears and all, was the shit-eating anticipatory grin on the young black girl with the pulled back hair's face positioned directly behind him during the entire press conference. At this point, I'm infinitely more interested in her thoughts than his...
Hell, I haven't even seen the press conference, or the woman you mentioned...but now I'M wnating to know what she was thinkin too!
Aw man...this is too funny.
wants. In this case, see his mistress in Argentina.
MYOB.
http://www.thestate.com/154/story/838823.html
Gov. Mark Sanford admitted today that his secret trip to Argentina over Father's Day weekend was to visit a woman he is having an affair with.
"I have developed a relationship with what started as a dear dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently as I expect many of these things do, just casual email back and forth," Sanford said. "But here recently this last year developed into something much more."
Asked if Sanford was separated from his wife, he said "I don't know how you want to define that. I"m here and she's there. I guess in a formal sense we are not."
Sanford said his wife has known about the affair and they have been working through it for the past five months. "What I did was wrong, period. End of story," Sanford said.
So...were there diapers involved?
Whether or not diapers were involved, my question is: Did Governor Sanford break any laws in South Carolina (adultery?) and if he did, can he be impeached by the South Carolina Legislature?
He can be impeached for misusing State vehicles. He "stole" a vehicle from the vehicle pool and used it for sex tourism, that alone is an impeachable offense.
If were smart, he would resign before any type of impeachment proceedings could start against him. They will move fast in South Carolina.
"Out of proportion."! I love it! These bastards confirm every day just how much their self-granted entitlements have caused them to lose all touch with reality.
Republicans are beyond being full of shit. Pussy-whipped fucker ran to South America, leaving his family and state in total limbo for some ass. Lol.
Has Fox news put a "D" after his name yet?
Took them about 5 minutes!
Assholes!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906240026
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At least he was in Argentina having sex with a woman, not in the Domincan Republic buying Viagra and having sex with children.
Yep, that was Rush Limbaugh. And the scumbag rightard then got away with having illegal drugs on him under fake prescription names and yet the criminal is still walking around free.
DamOTclese, I'm replying to my own so you can alter your post.
I didn't say a name because there's no proof of Limbaugh doing anything other than illegally purchasing Viagra. It's a thin line - and a legal one as well - between an inference and an outright accusation of using child sex tourism.
Having said that, it is a fact that the DR is one of the most infamous destinations for child sex tourism by westerners.
what time does he appear on the air with his evangelical minister and announce he's repented?
...how long will it take for the republican constituents to forgive him/buy his crap? Like shit through a goose, is my guess.
And THEN:
how hard will they pounce on any new Dem peccadillo?
The Republican leadership in South Carolina hasn't been happy with Governor Sanford for some time. I wouldn't be looking for "redemption" from that corner.
The screaming "family values" lunatic is going to proclaim that he was a "sinner" and not the stellar Christian asshole he's always proclaimed to be, but now that he's found Jesus he's going to stop his raping ways, you bet!
The Media is having a LOVE FEST over Sanford! It's unreal.
They despise a hypocrite. Also, the entire leadership of South Carolina is up in arms.
How long before Lindsey Graham grasps his pearls and falls over in a swoon?
I do declare.
Yeah...he'll be heart broken. He was hoping that Sanford was another closeted gay Republican and that he had a shot.
Do their wives know?
Not Biblically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YRWhg4YaA
Another one bites the dust. The GOP is fast running out of contenders.
strangely comfortable with that fact.
Now...if we could only get the DINO's to follow suit.
Do the 2012 GOP Presidential contenders have a curse on them?
Dunno...but the GOP hopefuls for Prez are rather adept at taking themselves out of the running...
It's sad stuff when any family goes through a time like this but when a guy puts his family through this and they are on the national stage, I feel especially sad for his wife and his kids. He's all about god's law and letting people down, but they are the victims.
I bet you one George Bush Dollar that his "wife" is just as bad as he is.
hey...maybe he was out campaigning for the "ho" vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8cEe5HQ1YE
Republicans represent the lowest form of human life,
Yeah, I was listening to the radio and just heard him admit it. Affair with the woman from Argentina. Simple as that.
What. A. Clown.
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