Virginia Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 This probably deserves it's own thread; I find it incomprehensible that a Governor would behave like this : http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/sou...ails/index.html South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told the woman with whom he was having an affair they were "in a hopelessly impossible situation of love" last year when he was thought to be under consideration for the Republican vice presidential nomination, according to e-mails obtained by The State newspaper. Gov. Mark Sanford speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol in Columbia on Wednesday. The Columbia-based newspaper, which acquired the e-mails in December, told CNN that the governor's office had confirmed their authenticity on Wednesday. When contacted by CNN, a spokesman for the governor would neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of the e-mails. The e-mails between the GOP governor and a Buenos Aires, Argentina, resident named "Maria," were exchanged in July of last year, according to the newspaper. In one July 10 message, Sanford told the woman about his plans to take a family vacation and meet with then-Republican presidential candidate John McCain who "has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home ..." before he veered into more emotional territory. "You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty," Sanford wrote, according to the e-mails published on the newspaper's Web site. Watch CNN.com's political team discuss the situation » "I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light -- but hey, that would be going into sexual details ..." "...while all the things above are all too true -- at the same time we are in a ... hopelessly impossible situation of love...." he added. Don't Miss Sanford admits extramarital affair S.C. governor returning Wednesday, staff says Ticker: Barbour to head RGA Jenny Sanford's statement "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 ..." Earlier, "Maria" -- whose full name has not yet been released -- also proclaimed her devotion in a July 9 e-mail. "You are my love ... something hard to believe even for myself as it's also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation," she wrote. "Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen ... I can't redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you." John O'Connor, the newspaper reporter who wrote the story about the e-mails, told CNN Wednesday afternoon that The State did not confront Sanford with the messages in December because at the time "there was little way to tell that these were authentic e-mails." Watch Gov. Sanford's conference Wednesday » O'Connor said that given the recent events surrounding Sanford, the paper then decided to approach the governor's office with the e-mails. Sanford, who had been considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential campaign, admitted the affair Wednesday. The affair began in the last year and was discovered five months ago, Sanford told reporters without elaborating. He added he and his wife were trying to work through it. The governor had not been seen in public since June 18. When questioned, Sanford's staff had told media outlets that he was hiking in the Appalachian Trail. But Sanford was spotted Wednesday in Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Sanford said he had been in Buenos Aires, adding it was his fault for "shrouding this larger trip." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 It's happened before. Others have had affairs born in the heat of passion. It's human nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zosodude13 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 This one was relativly mundane for a politician these days... And that's a bad thing when we are not alarmed by infedelity. It's not the worse crime in the world but we shouldn't yawn at it either. Honestly, there isn't that exciting or funny, compared to Elliot Spitzer and Larry Craig. It disappoints the inner 8th grader in me; when I can't make a "Spitzer swallow" joke or reference an airport men's room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3hrsoflunacy Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Well, at least he didn't waste time and money by denying he had sexual relations with that woman; or pull a McGreevey. (If you don't know who Mgreevey is, look up NJ Governor GAY affair) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 It's not the affair that bothered me; like you all have said, that is no longer unusual these days. It's the going awol/incommunicado and then lying about where he'd been part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L 7 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I just love the Jimmy Swaggart-esque catharsis. The emails are cheesy...I just love your tan lines. Where is the outrage? He should be be impeached. Where is Newt on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabe Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 honest politician = oxymoron. I'm damn sick of scumbag politicians. My local government is rampant with crooked, lying politicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Heh Heh......"Hiking the Appalachian Trail". I must remember that one. First time I heard that, I flashed right to the "Hershey Highway". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TypeO Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 As usual, I'm more offended by the media's response. Good Morning America featured Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson yukking it up, practically snickering like grade schoolers as they "reported" on the issue. Add "objective media/objective reporting" to the oxymoron list with "honest politician". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TypeO Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Heh Heh......"Hiking the Appalachian Trail". I must remember that one. First time I heard that, I flashed right to the "Hershey Highway". lulz. A new euphemism is born! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryingbluerain Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I guess we can add him and Edwards to the list: http://www.politickernj.com/files/Top53SexScandals.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zosodude13 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 FOX Labels Sanford as Democrat oops! at least they are consistent.... FOX Labels Mark Foley A Democrat FOX Labels Losing Republican As A Democrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirchzep27 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Hiking the appalachian trail in argentinia. its amazing how when people have everything in regards to success....can mess up with love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 That's what love can do to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zosodude13 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I guess we can add him and Edwards to the list: http://www.politickernj.com/files/Top53SexScandals.pdf It's an interesting list... I would move Mark Foley up a little higher. its one thing when its a legal-age staffer/intern.... but with children... not good. Bill should be #1, since its the one time it was more then rumor and action was taken when someone was president. I didn't see FDR... he should be on there too. And even James Buchanan... he was the first president rumored to have a gay relationship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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