Take a letter, Maria:
I can’t read the love letters from Governor Sanford to his girlfriend without this going though my head. Sorry.
As one right-wing blog said today:
Under different circumstances I think he could have survived this, but it’s a quirk of our politics that voters don’t mind cheating as much as they do inept cheating. Infidelity makes you a cad; unannounced week-long disappearances and rambling confessional pressers about the new lady in your life makes you a cad and erratic, and Americans don’t dig erratic in their would-be presidents. Word on the street via Geraghty is that if he doesn’t resign the state legislature will move to impeach him.
Me, I still want to know who anonymously tipped the South Carolina paper with the emails back five months ago, about the time he first came out on this to family and friends. (my guess: had to be either a very close aide or honked off close family.) And what the heck he was doing down there for *five* days to say goodbye and break up with her.
I will freely admit that I’ve done some dumb things in my time, but I’ve usually not been the dumper in a situation like this.