Speaking about AWOL, where’s the MN court on Franken v. Coleman?

I think the jury may still be out, Edwards has at least a 6 month head start on those two. Also there was a pregnancy involved with Edwards and a very ill wife to boot. I’m not sure this conclusion is fair.

Wait a minute. Bill O’Reilly says that the media practically ignored the Edwards affair. What gives? Is O’Reilly untrustworthy?

Sorry, I have to agree with Staggerlee on this one. A Google hit means that there is a web page that contains the search term. People have had less than a week to write online about the Sanford affair, and far longer to write about Edwards’ affair. They don’t delete their web pages when the news gets old or forgotten.

After all, “Monica Lewinsky” gets more hits than “Ensign affair”. Why is everyone still talking about such old news?

ermm…

Morning PW.

Sure love that wt graphic.

The possible result of a child is still a private matter. With the Sanford affair there is a betrayal of the public trust by using public funds and abandoning his governing responsibilities.

Quick — on MSNBC, what is that Alex is interviewing?

Per DKos diary: The source of the steamy email was Maria’s current boyfriend. These people deserve each other.

Wait a minute. Bill O’Reilly says that the media practically ignored the Edwards affair. What gives? Is O’Reilly untrustworthy?

Good one!

Important in the Edwards affair is the rumor that his staff would have scuttled his campaign if the rumors & suspicions of the affair were true.

Ensign has definitely come out the big “winner” here. A rather run-of-the-mill heterosexual extra-marital affair, luckily (for him) followed by Sanford’s way bizarre saga, and then the death of Michael Jackson. Voila! – what affair?

And fwiw, I’d kinda like the chance to kick John Edwards in his ’severance package’ myself….

What makes the old affair of a Democrat who is no longer in politics any more newsworthy than the affairs of two Republicans who were among the top picks for the GOP nomination in 2012?

The mighty Wurlitzer is still in tune.

LOL. You got that right. Methinks Jenny is the only one with any class in this mess.

She is getting her ducks in a row to lower the boom.

I do believe you is right.

followed by Sanford’s way bizarre saga

Anybody got anything stronger than “bizarre”?

After thinking about it for a few days, this is unbelievable.

Over Father’s Day weekend, he goes to Argentina to boink somebody and says wife, kids and state of South Carolina be damned.

I mean, he did this in real time, unlike the other examples above.

He had to know he’d be busted upon return, and he did it anyway.

Then, comes back and says “Sorry, now let’s get back to work.”

You need a wheelbarrow to carry that sac.

……only to be rebuffed by her.

What do you think happened down there?

maybe Mrs. Vitter would let her borrow the leopard-print dress for her next on-camera appearance….

I thought she came across quite bitchy. I can’t imagine why he would even try to “work things out” with her. There will be no real forgiveness. Not that I blame her, what a sucky thing to do do his family, not to mention the state.

It’s not like she was “merely” a devoted spouse, she was the driving force behind his political career.

She will never divorce him. It’s against their religion.

I haven’t watched the vid, just saw some comments she made during the interview. Mayhaps she is a mite controlling?

After thinking about it for a few days, this is unbelievable.

oh, I dunno. I pretty much did the same thing when I was eighteen, and got a “Dear jay” phone call from my girlfriend – at which point I proceeded to hitch-hike about 200 miles north to try to “fix” things….

‘course, I *was* eighteen.

and wasn’t a Governor…..

Don’t bet on that.

I was very irritated by how NPR treated the WaPo reporter Dana Milbank and the Jimmy/Jeff Gannon/Guckert episode (H/T Media Matters). Essentially, Milbank gave NPR a bunch of good quotes about the Iranian and the HuffPo reporter asking a good question of the President and was then rewarded by being described as having been a lone voice in the wilderness, pestering his fellows to cover the important Gannon affair. Well yeah, Milbank discussed the Gannon kerfuffle, once, on a news talk show because the show decided that Gannon was going to be the subject. Milbank never once wrote about Gannon during that whole episode.

Look at the dates for Sanford’s trip in June, 2008. That “AWOL” episode was no “breaking up” trip, it was an anniversary celebration!

A break up could have been accomplished with a letter.

O’Reilly untrustworthy? There’s no way. I’d be shocked. Shocked!

What, Sanford hasn’t learned about “sexting”?

This whole episode reminds me of Scott Turow’s “Presumed Innocent”. The main character has an affair and becomes obsessed with his mistress. Can’t get enough of her. After she ends it, he confesses to his wife while crying (not because of the pain he caused his wife but because the affair is over). He even speculates “Dare I say, I wanted her sympathy?”

Unfortunately it appears he has learned about it all to well.

I’m guessing that when the settlement looks good enough, she’ll make her exit from the marriage, and (possible) entrance into South Carolina politics.

While the logic is fuzzy–of course there are more hits for Edwards’ affair, given that the Ensign et al. affairs are newer–the larger point is strong. Ensign and Sandford will be the Vitters of 2009. Expect no resignation (remember, King David didn’t resign). And why? Attacks on Democrats’ affairs was always part of the phony outrage machine and attempt to frame Rethugs as the party of morality.

That’s why we shouldn’t get sucked into talking about their affairs as morally wrong. I don’t judge other people’s relationships, nor do I want to know the details. The issue with Sanford is going AWOL from his job. They are hypocrites and worse, not immoral adulterers.

and wasn’t a Governor……with 4 boys…on Father’s Day weekend.

Completed it fer ya.

Maybe it’s just me, but the Father’s Day angle is a box of Morton’s in the wound rubbed deep.

…when the settlement looks good enough,…

she strikes now, while the iron is smokin’ hot, that settlement is gonna look *real* good.

And da Guv is gonna look, ummm – gone.

A separation has already happened. If there isn’t a reconciliation fairly quickly it ain’t gonna happen.

I got my first Dear John in boot camp. Lotta guys did. Years later on one of the destroyers I was on we had a bulletin board where guys posted their Dear Johns.

Ouch!

Like Kerry’s wife, Jenny is the one with the line of credit, so to speak. You can bet yer sweet bippy that Sanford can’t touch one penny of the Skil money.

The issue with Sanford is going AWOL from his job

I agree with that for the most part, but I think he deserves extra bonus points for being so damn blatant.

This makes me question his decision making abilities, which I already questioned when he initially refused the stimulus money.

heh – I got one by AOL Instant Message. Maybe I shoulda printed it out.

That episode made me wonder what he did at Goldman Sachs and why would his wife have to assist him with state financial matters.

I did not know that.

(did I sound like Johnny Carson there?)

AOL Instant Message! No shit?! That’s cold, man. Cold.

Perfect. She’s the heiress to the SkilSaw fortune. Heinz and SkilSaw. That’s a lotta foxtrots, as my dad used to say.

What gobsmacked me the day of Sanford’s first presser was how sympathetic the male reporters/anchors were to him, considering he screwed his children, his wife, his staff, his state, and his friends. And that he had no intention of resigning until he found out The State newspaper had his emails.

maybe Mrs. Vitter would let her borrow the leopard-print viper-print dress for her next on-camera appearance….

SD,,,,(OT)
Gotta love it. Just fixing my space to welcome the new Head of the House and spilled a bunch of coffee. Tell me that is not an omen….think I will just go get a haircut and start over. At least I did not wait to spill the coffee on her…(Called counting your blessings.)

Means you don’t have to do anything special. The new Queen will be happy regardless.

Thank…;) You’re the best. Hope you like my hair.;) See ya’.

Peterr is upstairs with a new post: “A Pandemic of Hope”

Peterr’s upstairs with
A Pandemic of Hope
Imagine s Senator Harvey Milk.

Kinda makes you wonder how much of that Skil money went to getting him elected. Hey, let’s buy the SIL a governorship.

She figured prominently in his campaign, was even his campaign manager iirc. The Skil influence may have been more important than money.

Even better with both money *and* influence. Makes ya wonder how carefully these political families are planned out in advance. Let’s see, dear…….we’ll have four stair-step kids……we’re both good-looking…..etc. That picture of the two of them posed with the kids lined up by age/height all gussied up in their little suits and ties and spit-shined hair. Plays well anywhere but no place better than the South.

Plays well anywhere but no place better than the South.

Bingo. My family came to SC from France in the early 1750s. I was the first of the family born out of the state. Even as a kid when folks talked about state or local politics is was all about the old families. Hasn’t changed in 200 years.

Leave it to an Ohioan to capture the tone and substance of this scene perfectly. The funniest guys I met in law school (CWRU) were all natives, and one from Kansas who claimed to be the only Democrat in Marion County, and they could be devastatingly funny too. I can’t stop laughing. Thanks!

You must remember that initially the MSM all but ignored the John Edwards’ affair and only responded, due to the National Enquire’s persistant coverage. The Edwards’ story was and is more interesting for several reasons: death of their son, Elizabeth’s incurable cancer, purported out-of-wedlock child, the public and media appearances of both and finally Elizabeth’s book.

All of those areas of interest with the Edwards’ is still way over the top for some one who was no longer in politics and who was no longer involved in the affair.

It is still far more attention being paid to a former pol versus the level of attention being paid to politicians currently holding office.

But as we know it is always a bad thing for a Democrat to have sex. Republicans get to have sexual problems and affairs because they’re “forgiven” automatically. /s

Let’s hear it for the G-O-PP. It’s not the sex, it’s the lies and the hypocrisy.