It just never ends. We have tried to overlook this last Republican disgrace, but it is just too good to let it go. It seems that the conservative water walker Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, has discovered that confession is good for the soul.
After going missing for several days, being reported to be on a hiking trip in the Appalachians, and finally returning to South Carolina, Governor Mark Sanford has apparently decided that it was better to confess infidelity with a woman in Argentina — where he claims to have been — than have headlines stating that he was in the Appalachians for Naked Hiking Day.
Today the outspoken governor admitted that he has been involved in an adulterous affair with an Argentinian woman. Maybe that is better than confessing he was hanging loose in the mountains. The governor apologized to his wife, his children, his staff, and the citizens of South Carolina.
We are left to wonder if he had not received so much press for going missing this time if he would have come clean. As previously reported by the national media, his wife had stated that from time to time he disappeared for several days to “clear his head.” Truer words were never spoken.
This is another case of the morality and family values of those who hold themselves out to be above the rest getting bitten in the butt by their own actions. And, it is another case of the hypocrisy that seems to be aiding the implosion of the Republican Party. There are not enough do-gooders to cover the deficits in values and morality they preach.
Hats off to Governor Mark Sanford for coming clean — if in fact he is now telling the truth.
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