The governor of South Carolina digs himself in deeper. For some odd reason, he's elaborating with the media on his eventful erotic life. Excerpt:
In an interview with The Associated Press at his Statehouse office, Mr. Sanford said that those flirtations had "crossed the line" and that he had let his "guard down" by engaging in some physical contact with women other than his wife, Jenny Sanford. But, he said, with the exception of the sexual relationship he began last year with , María Belén Chapur, the Argentine woman, those flirtations "didn't cross the sex line."The new disclosures put Mr. Sanford's ability to remain governor back in doubt just when such concerns seemed to have been abating.
Mr. Sanford has admitted taking a special trip to Buenos Aires to visit with Ms. Chapur last year during an official visit to South America. He has promised to repay the costs.
On Tuesday, in disclosing several other assignations with Ms. Chapur in Manhattan and the Hamptons over the last year, Mr. Sanford said he had not spent any other state money on his illicit visits.
"I was very careful," he said. "Everything was paid for in cash."
Classy! But wait, there's more:
He also told The A.P. that he believed Ms. Chapur was his soul mate, but that he was trying to fall back in love with his wife."This was a whole lot more than a simple affair; this was a love story," he told The A.P. "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day."
Just stop.
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Sounds to me like he's deliberately sabotaging his reunion with his wife so there's no way she'll take him back. In his heart of hearts, I doubt he really wants to be married to her anymore and he's trying to make her the one who files for divorce. No self respecting woman wants to be second best in her own husband's eyes, to have his mistress be his soul mate and know that he is gritting his teeth and trying really hard to love her again. How humiliating can it get? I think he does love the mistress or is least really strongly in lust and I have no idea if the mistress loves him. They both acted badly and destroyed a family. The mistress has kids too, so she's screwed up her own child's life. But at this point I think Sanford should shut up, own his mistakes and file for divorce and stop saying things that further hurt his wife. He doesn't want to be married, so he should say so and work on his relationship with his kids.
I think Andrea is right on target. I've seen this dynamic at work elsewhere. The man wants his freedom, but doesn't want to take responsibility for a divorce. So he goes on a passive-aggressive campaign to humiliate his wife until she snaps and does the dirty work herself. Then he can tell everybody, "Gee, I dunno what happened. Sure I made some mistakes, but I was willing to work on the marriage! She just went all crazy on me and insisted on a divorce." Being able to play the victim-of-divorce card will help him with his constituency, too, if he wants to stick with the religious right platform.
Yes, Andrea -- Passive-aggressive is right. I speak from experience. Yet I have never seen someone as undeniably stupid as Sanford.
Like Bill Clinton and others, Sanford seems to regard himself as indispensible. It like they're saying: I made a mistake and doesn't everybody once in while. There's several million people in South Carolina and aren't there at least a few who are as competent as Sanford sees himself to be and who haven't made a mistake that big? This guy has shown himself to have absolutely no judgement even in matters of personal survival. How could he have believed that his disappearing act to South America could have not ended badly? He appears to be clueless and should not be trusted with anything let alone running a whole state.
Like Bill Clinton and others, Sanford seems to regard himself as indispensible. It like they're saying: I made a mistake and doesn't everybody once in while. There's several million people in South Carolina and aren't there at least a few who are as competent as Sanford sees himself to be and who haven't made a mistake that big? This guy has shown himself to have absolutely no judgement even in matters of personal survival. How could he have believed that his disappearing act to South America could have not ended badly? He appears to be absolutely clueless and should not be trusted with anything let alone running a whole state.
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