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JUNE 24, 2009 5:54PM

Off for sex weekends, Republicans like to lie "I'm writing"

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South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, whose recent unexplained absence from his state for four days was first explained that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail and then that he was "writing something," admitted today that he had actually spent the weekend in Argentina, fucking his girlfriend.

The writing excuse sounded suspicious to me because you may remember that one of Ted Haggard's excuses for his frequent trips to Denver was that he liked to hole up in a hotel room to work on his books. Of course, he was holing up in a hotel room for different purposes. But isn't it funny that this has become a common excuse?

In light of this, perhaps we should wonder about the recent announcement that Dick Cheney is working on a memoir. Yeah sure, Dick! Since when did you need an excuse to disappear for weeks at a time in the first place? The "undisclosed location" excuse is still good as far as I'm concerned.

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I think I need to spend the weekend working on some poems... I have some that need some serious editing.
wakingupslowly
June 24, 2009 06:12 PM
I am SO boring. 35 years with the same woman, still adolescently, piningly in love with her.
BobbyG
June 24, 2009 06:16 PM
I usually manage to write in the same house, or at least on the same continent, as my spouse. Maybe I'm a liberal.
High Lonesome
June 24, 2009 06:23 PM
Hey, he was using his penis as a pen!
MiddleAgedWomanBlogging
June 24, 2009 06:57 PM
Hurgh, I think I just threw up a little bit at the Cheney image. But you may be on to something...
Saturn Smith
June 24, 2009 06:58 PM
I wonder if he can write as well as he lies?
Don Rich
June 24, 2009 07:34 PM
I bet they can't even write. I wonder if there are family values conservatives out there who need ghost writers to produce the writing they're supposed to be doing? There may be an angle here...
Sirenita Lake
June 24, 2009 07:39 PM
Update: A South Carolina newspaper has a statement from Sanford's wife, where she states she kicked him out of the house two weeks ago. Also they have email between Sanford and "Maria," the alleged South American lover. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/06/24/jenny-sanford-speaks/

You know it's a Republican sex scandal when it just keeps getting better and better.
Mark Pritchard
June 24, 2009 08:03 PM
Oh God, the email! Sanford speaks of a "world wind tour" to several Asian countries. And later, his prose assumes a crazy mix of love-lorn swain and constipated bureaucrat:

Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true -- at the same time we are in a hopelessly -- or as you put it impossible -- or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes ...
Mark Pritchard
June 24, 2009 08:08 PM
Republicans are no different than democrats in this department. Or have you forgotten Bill Clinton who is as big a liar as the rest?
Black Bart
June 24, 2009 08:16 PM
He was using his pencil...
Ablonde
June 24, 2009 08:23 PM
But Bill had ejaculation without penetration, sounds like Sanford had the full monty.
Ablonde
June 24, 2009 08:25 PM
How do you know Bill had ejaculation without penetration? And who really cares? Sex is sex.
Black Bart
June 24, 2009 08:29 PM
I moved to South Carolina in April for a job and I'm really loving the politics. I want to see the mother/mistressfucker resign and go back to his family plantation. Yes, they still call their farms plantations here, and they even call new housing developments/gated communities Suchandsuch Plantation. Weird state.
mareli
June 24, 2009 09:23 PM
BlackBart, I agree that Clinton is cut from the same cloth. He did not, however, disappear and claim to be working on a book.
Mark Pritchard
June 24, 2009 09:31 PM
Just add Mr. Sanford to the list of ALL politicians guilty...Spitzer, Clinton, Patterson, M cGreey and Tim Mahoney,.....doesn't matter what side your on ...at least Mrs. Sanford DID NOT appear next to him at the podium ......good for her....shame on him.
lorimarie
June 24, 2009 09:44 PM
reminds me of berlosconi who the NYT just said, details are emerging he ran his house something like a "playboy mansion". envious :p
vzn
June 24, 2009 09:44 PM
I am not defending Sanford. Neither am I defending Clinton. Guys, these men are politicians, what do you expect?
Black Bart
June 24, 2009 11:13 PM
Ok, now I'm sorry for Sanford. I would hate to have my emails and texts published. On those sites that allow those words. Rachel Maddow calls his emails "explicit." Could she really not know what explicit is? More likely, she's just milking it. I don't know enough about this guy to know if he's preached family values while fucking around on the side and if he should be punished for being a hypocrite. I'm actually more appalled at the media for their feeding frenzy. It's not worth all this press.
Sirenita Lake
June 24, 2009 11:14 PM
This is another example of how the liberal media distorts things.

In every case they ACTUALLY said: "writhing".
Greg Correll
June 25, 2009 08:17 AM
They all do it. Not just one party or the other. They in fact are human. One is no worse than the other and I hold no doubts that as women move into positions of power that they too will be caught out. Why do we waste time and effort ferreting the information on their sex lives anyway? How many of us live secret lives that would bring shame and harm on our loved ones if exposed?
bobbot
June 25, 2009 10:40 AM
Nice snark, Mark. You may write fiction but you couldn't make up this Dumbo nonsense.
Austin Old Guy
June 25, 2009 10:43 AM
So, now, when I say that I have some writing projects that need attention, my friends and enemies are going to think I'm up to something much more interesting?

Oh, no, wait! -- I'm not a conservative, but a liberal.
ktm
June 25, 2009 11:10 AM
I liked Josh Marshall's question at talkingpointsmemo.com; paraphrasing a bit:

Will "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" take on the metaphorical meaning it seemingly so richly deserves?
N M
June 25, 2009 11:50 AM
I think I need to hole up and do some writing, and I'm looking for a partner.
Ralph Tingey
June 25, 2009 12:19 PM
@lois -- best overall comment I've hear about Sanford. You really know about hitting the Mark.
OEsheepdog
June 25, 2009 12:26 PM
More proof for the guys that "thats the way it is", they all stand their like deer in the head lights. Spitzer looked stupid, the politician from N.J. looked dumb, is that what happens once priveledge is accomplished? I think so, so you send your kids to fine schools, brag about how accompllished they are, and drag your name in shame, because sex has made a fool of many who are wiser, and nicer, to know you play with fire your going to get burned.
MOMSACOMIC
June 25, 2009 12:29 PM
The only winner in this situation is the media which will make $$ on it. According to a network tv announcer, " everybody is talking about it". Count me out. It is none of my business. The sooner the media drops this the better. Just another example of bottom of the barrel journalism.
coachcaptain
June 25, 2009 01:00 PM
I am very sympathetic with the idea that people's sex lives don't matter, but let's keep in mind he is the chief executive of a state and (1) vanished for four days; (2) his staff didn't know where he was; (3) neither did state police agencies charged with his security. To me that's a violation of the public trust. Furthermore, there is the hypocrisy angle. Sanford was not really a family-values foamer, but he criticized Clinton and others for the same transgression he fell victim to.

But frankly, I am most interested in this for the entertainment value, and on that scale, this is a 9.
Mark Pritchard
June 25, 2009 01:07 PM
This would have legs if he were a (D) as it might even help his viability.Maybe not....unless it was a gay lover or in this case he wa found in Patagonia with his Gay Gaucho who he just couldn't quit..Think of the emails
"Gosh darn it Paco under the moonlit sky I can almost convince myself that you are a woman wearing those crotchless chaps-this would still be a sin but...
Jay Richer
June 25, 2009 02:37 PM
The penis mightier than the sword.
Maryann McBreen
June 25, 2009 10:35 PM
Please! The obsession with Dick Cheney is not healthy. If Sanford HAD gone hunting we would have had to listen to a revival of Cheney's hunting accident. This Bush/Cheney material is getting stale. Pres Obama is creating reams of funny/sad/and plain idiotic fodder for the wits among us. Try it on for size.
BudGor
June 25, 2009 10:35 PM
This type of activity has been going on forever. The sexual goings on of the powerful were recorded in the Bible (the book least read in our progressive age). Things repeat themselves over and over. The media is acting like they have discovered fire. Humans have basically changed very little over the ages. Wars, political intrigue, murder, rape, and on and on. Same goats different clothing.
BudGor
June 25, 2009 10:52 PM