A Follow-up on Mark Sanford

So he used state money to finance his sleazy fling while refusing stimulus money. He cheated on his wife who basically ran his gubernatorial campaign. He his four sons on Father's Day. Yes, it's Spitzer/McGreevy/Edwards all over again.

With one big difference.

The fact that Mark Sanford is a Republican doesn't make his circumstances any different than the many, many Democratic politicians who cheated on their spouses. I live in a state whose former governor put his gay lover, an Israeli sailor/poet, on the state payroll as the head of homeland security. I live right next to a state whose former governor who transported his mistress prostitute over state lines. Both these men were Democrats, so I can't be all holier-than-thou towards Sanford. Because, you know, that's his job.

The unfortunate edge that James McGreevy (who, by the way, lives right here in Plainfield) and Eliot Spitzer have over Mark Sanford is that, unlike Sanford, McGreevy and Spitzer do not belong to a political party that has spent the better part of these past two decades obsessively branding itself as the party of "family values." Sanford played no small part in this; in 1998, he voted to impeach President Clinton, calling his affair "reprehensible" and saying that "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally to resign."

And now Mark Sanford stands up there, weeping to South Carolinians to let keep his job.

If Mark Sanford is any bit of a man, he will personally apologize to Bill Clinton for attempting to punish him for affairs that were none of anyone's business. He will admit the blatant hypocracy of his stance that gay marriage will "destroy the sanctity of marriage."

Family values my ass. Mark Sanford has made it clear that Argentinian pussy overrides any family values he may once have had. And on Father's Day, of all days. Meanwhile, that liberal elitist Barack Obama was giving speeches on the importance of fathers as a role model, while continuing to show the country that he is a fiercely loyal father and husband. Mark Sanford could really take a lesson from that arugula-eating socialist.