I’ve never had much respect for Sanford, even though he’s the Governor of my home state; before the Stimulus money conflict, he always seemed too self-centered to run the state government. With his latest stunt, he’s finally lost everything:

But this was something entirely different. At a time when every last bit of political life is scripted, here was a powerful man wiping tears from his cheeks and talking about the intimate details of his shameful behavior. His wife wasn’t at his side — she’d kicked him out and told him not to call.

“The bottom line is this: I — I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” the governor said. “I developed a relationship which started out as a dear, dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently, as I suspect many of these things do, in just a casual e-mail. . . . But here recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that.”

Disappearing for five days, leaving for Argentina without anyone’s knowledge, and having an affair — all while missing father’s day — does not represent a decent Governor, let alone human being.

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