Dear Jenny, Dump Him
30 June 2009 7:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
It’s time for an intervention.
It’s bipartisanship I can wholeheartedly endorse.
It’s also the latest adventure into what the meaning of “is” is, by variation.
In a stupefying interview of extreme confessional proportions for a politician trying to save himself, Gov. Mark Sanford reaches down for more stupid.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he “crossed lines” with a handful of women other than his mistress – but never had sex with them. The governor said he “never crossed the ultimate line” with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed his once-promising political career.
“This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,” Sanford said. “A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.” …
In the AP interview we learn…
There were lots of women.
There were more meetings with his Argentinian lover than were previously disclosed. No! Really?
That Sanford was “chaperoned by a spiritual adviser” to what was supposed to be his last meeting with his paramour. It wasn’t.
During an emotional interview at his Statehouse office with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate but he’s trying to fall back in love with his wife.
There’s a limit to what any woman should have to forgive and the effort Sanford’s admitting it’s taking to fall back in love with his wife sends a message that Mrs. Sanford should be receiving loud and clear.
Of course, this is nobody’s business. Except that Gov. Sanford won’t shut up.
It also reveals Gov. Sanford as an emotional wreck; someone who clearly either needs a break, a rubber room, or a one-way ticket to Argentina. He’s a humiliation to himself, to his family, but also South Carolina voters, who are the ones who have to decide if he should stay or go, but something tells me this latest blubberfest with the AP is going to send his Republican colleagues in South Carolina over the edge.
Any wife who takes a man back after all this is certifiable. Of course, women do it. All the time. But it won’t be a marriage of intimacy ever again.
As for the children, which is the usual reason used for keeping a marriage together, especially religious couples. Sometimes the best example to the children is to make the hard decision. After all, Jenny Sanford is loaded, so the usual case of single mother poverty doesn’t apply.
Time to call a lawyer, Jenny, if you haven’t already.
