Man, those republican politicians know how to cry on a dime:

South Carolina Governor Sanford admits extramarital affair.

A couple of things: 1) Unlike Spitzer, McGreevey, Vitter, et al., Sanford's wife was not by his side. I'm guessing that wasn't his choice. 2) He must have pissed off a lot of folks in South Carolina, because if he was liked--or truly powerful--we would never have heard about this "disappearance." 3) The tears flowed as he apologized to his family, friends and staff. Don't believe it. He was crying the tears of a man who knows his political career is dead. No Mr. President for you, Mr. Can't Keep His Dick in His Pants. 4) No surprise: Fox News identified Sanford as a democrat (put a D next to his name). They've done this too often for it to be a mistake. I would be angry if maligning the democrats was something worth getting angry about. But it isn't. Not these democrats.

I didn't go with the obvious headline--Don't Cry for Me Argentina--but the lyrics to that song are bound to be worked over to reflect Sanford's fall from grace. I expect competing versions by midnight.

Comments

[joseph]

He obviously wasn't a "Team Player" (see the last few paragraphs)

Hope he gets seconds at least.

[JDM]

Geez, another republiKKKan mensch,

[gmb]

Joseph & JDM: Somewhere Mitt Romney is sporting a woody. One more down. GMB

[Spartacus]

I have a few theories on this GMB, the most conspiratorial of which is to bait Democrats into facile and bloviate condemnations so as to garner sympathy of the deliberately ignorant. Another theory I have is "slight of hand"; Republicans are trying to deliberately divert the attention of the electorate away from real issues, such as the economy, the war, healthcare reform, the environment.

[dguzman]

I doubt we'll see any democrats of note "bloviating" on Sanford's activities; the reich-wingers are usually the ones who pollute the air with their holier-than-thou rantings.

And this is the perfect payback for just such a holier-than-thou ranter.

[gmb]

Spartacus: Could be, but the democrats don't need to be led astray...they do a damn good job themselves. Someone suggested on one of the blogs that if congressional democrats were smart, they would introduce an act repealing DOMA now. Kind of hard for the republicans to talk about protecting marriage when two of them got their dicks caught in a wringer in one week. But they won't. Assholes.
dguzman: The only question is this: who's next? Because that is always the question. GMB

[bowtiejack]

How unusual - a Republican sex scandal involving plain vanilla heterosexual activity. What's next, petty theft?

[gmb]

bowtiejack: Been there, done that. Remember that guy Claude Something-or-another under Bush who was nailed for shoplifting? GMB