Maybe we should nominate Sanford for the Peckera commission? His seems to be working well.

I’m really tired of this I’m King David and get to sin all I want crap. Even King David had to deal with consequences. The whole point of the dang D-ba story (can I do that? combine David and Bathsheba like TomKat?) is that you can be forgiven but still have to deal with consequences. details.

Why is this story? Yes, he’s a hypocrite and a bad husband. And?

“If you’re a married guy at the end of the day you shouldn’t be dancing with somebody else. So anyway, without wandering into that field we’ll just say that I let my guard down in all senses of the word without ever crossing the line that I crossed with this situation.” – Lank-haired Sanford

If you’re Baptist, you shouldn’t be dancing period.

You know why Baptists don’t have sex standing up? They might be accused of dancing.

I get the feeling this will end soon.

And not well for the Governor.

As I noted earlier, Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Now that’s a handful.

and the most dreaded words in that family?

“It’s your turn to do the dishes tonight.”

ROTFLMAO

What is the meaning of “dancing?”

And “crossed the line” as in depends on the meaning of “crossed” or “line?”

Mos’ likely dey has rackety times in de nussery. En I reck’n de wives quarrels considable; en dat ‘crease de racket. Yit dey say Sollermun de wises’ man dat ever live’. I doan’ take no stock in dat. Bekase why: would a wise man want to live in de mids’ er sich a blim-blammin’ all de time? No — ‘deed he wouldn’t. A wise man ‘ud take en buil’ a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factry when he want to res’.”

I hope you’re right. This guy’s a major league asshole. He’s trying to fall back in love with his wife??? If my husband ever uttered those words on national tv, he’d be served with divorce papers the next day. How humiliating for her and her children.
Paraphrased: “No, I don’t love you or care about our family but I’m settling for you since Maria doesn’t want me.”
And, imho, he’s a womanizing hypocrite who used to go on business trips to fool around.

Nothing like being a billionaires’ husband to believe in Republican Economics too.

aka: Let them Eat Cake!

And he thinks gays should not allow to marry. He thinks teens should not be able to abort a fetus based on this type of activity. He believes in the sanctity of marriage (HA!) and tries to force others’ lives by his false pontifications.

I’m still ticked thinking about all he’s said in the last few days and how it’s impacting his wife and sons. I don’t care so much that he doesn’t love his wife, but he doesn’t even respect her (or care about her) enough to allow her to keep her dignity. So either he’s a self-absorbed idiot with no empathy or he’s incredibly stupid.

Oh, gawd, I’ve just described the republican personality disorder.

down here in texas we do line dancing.

I’ll bet he doesn’t resign, though. Vitter didn’t. Craig didn’t. They own him now. The repubs will go to bat to keep this guy in office cuz they love having someone they’ve got by the short hairs.

“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise”

This, of course, was Sanford’s problem. He didn’t hold his piece.

Both David and Solomon are Biblical giants who had tragic flaws (those of the tragic hero). I have not heard anyone speak of Sanford in heroic/giant terms. The LA word is pissant. LBJ/FDR had some heroic qualities…. Sanford is not Davidic; David would never have rejected important resources for his people.

Colbert sez the only thing that Sanford did wrong was to confess one day too soon.

Nice to have electricity back. It was out for 2 hours, outage occurring long after the brunt of the thunderstorm had passed. My guess is that since we’ve had so much rain this year, some tree just toppled over on the lines as the soil wasn’t firm enough to hold its roots. I had to stake one of the trees I just planted, as it keeled over today.

Why do you post your diagnosis as an either/or? Surely the two are not mutually exclusive.

HA!!

RPD! Do you have a DSM number for it?

aka group sex by Baptists’ definition?

I have not heard anyone speak of Sanford in heroic/giant terms.

Anyone other than Sanford, that is.

Seems like Mrs. Sanford feels just like you and I.

color me learned-something-new-about-baptists-today. well, that could be almost any day, with what i don’t know about baptists. my behind just can’t behind any religion that disapproves of dancing. i mean, really now!

Dealing with him with sancitmony & thinly veiled contempt. Well done, Mrs. S.

I’ve rarely seen a prominent pol make such a fool out of himself. True love, indeed. More like puppy love.

O, that’s right; I guess I was not swayed by his opinion.

well, much as i find sanford a sleaze, i’m not fond of what his wife is doing with her public statements either.

eli upstairs

I too know nothing about Baptists. I was just keying off hackworth1 @ 4.

The ICD-9 # is 301.81!

But she’ll play better with the base than him. And someone indicated she has political aspirations.

Besides, what’s a cheated on wife to do? Stand by her man & bake cookies?

Seems to me Sanford was thinking only with his head that hangs between his legs!! His other head was bamboozled!!

Maybe that’s sort of what he meant by “trying to fall in love with my wife”….he seemed not to notice the affront in that remark.

When my Southern Baptist spouse admitted his “blips” (his word), I was stunned. “But those women were my friends,’ I said…..lamely. “Well, really, they weren’t,” he informed me. That’s all I ever needed to know about Southern Baptists and about errant husbands. Life has been much easier since then!

Older, white, Republican males who preach one way and act another are simply irresistable to certain women. It is not the Republic’s fault. Limpy Limbaught will explain it soon.

Thread music (youtube): from Denise LaSalle, the immortal Your Husband Is Cheating on Us.

Sanford pre-disclosure was typically arrogant and acted completely in control
but after viewing his non-confessions he is very swiftly progressing into deep psychosis. He seems to be weighing mentally a fictionalized fantasy of his actions,identifying himself and actions with his personalized super heroes. He just may disappear again but this time it will be behind high walls and beltless.

A handful? That’s way TMI.

zat like group set without fun?

Sorry, friends, but when politicians stray into the Bible, they wander into my area of expertise. And I give equal opportunity to my wrath at the way politicians play with the whole David/Bathsheba/Uriah/Nathan story. It’s 2 Samuel 11 and 12, if you want the story, and Psalm 51 if you want what is given as David’s prayer.

I was bitterly angry with Bill Clinton years ago when he misquoted the end of Psalm 51. This was at a Prayer Breakfast, just when the Lewinsky fracas was at its peak. The psalm, a passionate confession of sin, ends:

The sacrifice acceptible to God is a broken heart;
A broken and contrite spirit, O God, you will not reject.

Clinton replaced “broken” with “strong”: essentially saying, “My strong heart will go on.” Friends, the grounds for impeachment were lousy, but if the House had included a charge of scripture-tampering for the Senate’s consideration, I would have lobbied to have the scum tossed out of the White House.

Now comes Gov. Sanford, and what does he do? Turns to David for inspiration. Claims that David (and his “strong” heart?) just went on. (Notice how he never mentioned Bathsheba, the woman David seduced, or Uriah, the soldier David essentially killed, or Nathan, the prophet who broke the story? Hmm.) So Sanford claims he should just go on, like David.

The problem is, that whole story is a whole lot messier in its outcome than the Governor would have you think. The prophet tells David that there are going to be at least two consequences, and then a third one, to all of David’s furtive business:

1. David’s lineage–and the country–is never going to know anything but conflict inside and outside the family. People are going to die because of this.

2. David’s wives (yes, I know, just accept this for a moment) are going to be stripped naked and handed over to other strong men. And…

3. David’s (and Bathsheba’s) son is going to die. All of these, to some extent, come about as consequences of David’s–I was going to quip about his “hiking,” but if you read the text carefully you’ll find that it all happened because of David’s failure to hike.

So, answer me this, Gov…

1. If you are willing to “go on” just like David did, are you willing to take South Carolina into civil war? Didn’t that go badly last time?

2. I know that you and your wife are on the outs right now, but seriously. Handed over to your enemies?

3. Which of your children are you willing to sacrifice?

And the odd thing is, I think Sanford acts exactly like he is willing to let all this happen, just so he can “go on.” He didn’t act like he cared about nothing except what he wanted–which, of course, is how he ended up in this trouble to begin with. (And no, it didn’t start “innocently” either.)

So, a big “wag of my finger” to both Mark Sanford and Bill Clinton. Wow. Both Republicans and Democrats getting the passage wrong. I guess neither party is God’s party, is it?

Sanford, at times crying and unabashedly emotional, acknowledged in the AP interview that he had casual encounters with other women while he was married but before he met Chapur. They took place during trips outside the country to “blow off steam” with male friends.
“What I would say is that I’ve never had sex with another woman. Have I done stupid? I have. You know you meet someone. You dance with them. You go to a place where you probably shouldn’t have gone,” Sanford said, declining to discuss details. But he said those encounters were nothing like his relationship with Chapur.

Hmmm. How interesting that he was doing this with male friends on foreign trips. One would think that these were likely other politicians or aides. Seems to me that there will be a lot of married women who are now wondering if their husbands were running around with Sanford and prostitutes during their mutual foreign trips (both government -sponsored and private).

You can bet that the new parlor game will be…”where in the world did Mark Sanford travel…and who went with him?”

Lap dancing…naked lap dancing.

Now we know why politicians’ wives stand beside their confessing husbands: To make sure they shut up.

I’ll get the game started:

In six years, Congressman Sanford made taxpayers send him to (deep breath): Brazil, Argentina (twice), Chile (twice), Panama, Bolivia, Peru (twice), Canada, Colombia (twice, but not South Carolina, either), Mexico, Belgium, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Haiti and Cuba.

Sanford’s travel as SC Representative

Seems he likes Latin culture a lot. Wonder if this was done with guys wanting to let off steam? Add in several more trips to Brazil and Argentina, plus the one to Uruguay…and the grand tour to China, Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, Japan (with family).

Boy, he sure does like the senoritas!

Oh Chicas!

Gotta love Mrs. Sanford. Forgiving adultery is not the same thing as condoning it. She rocks! She can afford to say what she thinks, which is what makes it all so delicious. She’s going to give voice to what voters have been thinking about this hypocrisy all along.

Hey KJ, I’m totally with you.
I’ve been commenting similar points on every Sanford thread. Consequences, dude, consequences. That is the point of the D/B story.

scripture-tampering

I’m going to borrow that one!

And yes, Sanford is Loud and Clear about not giving a crap about his family. It’s like he is Boy in Man’s Body. Wow.