Comments on: Mark Sanford is engaged…

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:24:03 +0000

Don Carlos, numerous studies have pointed out that attractive people are more often given a pass in life, it is human nature to prefer the attractive. As far as liking Jen Sanford, she is hardly guilty of moral turpitude just because she shrugged off her cheatin husband. I happen to admire women who don t stay *attached* to loser husbands like Bill Clinton, or Ellot Spitzer.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:03:51 +0000

Oh, he’ll be re-elected to something. Just like Marion Barry.
It’s all part of our postmodernism.
It is always someone else’s fault.
Like ‘lem’ and ‘molly’ said, it’s OK, she’s beautiful, or, “I like her”. They are probably opposed to the death penalty too. Morality has become sooo relative.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:58:14 +0000

The more I think about it, the more I dislike the guy. Why did he decide to run for political office again? Does he think he’s indispensable or something? The honorable thing for him to have done is to have faded into the background for the rest of his life. Or at least for another 20 years or so. He owes it to his children.

Some people actually do this. Like Bob Livingston, the Republican who resigned as Speaker-elect during the Clinton impeachment hearings because it was revealed he’d had an extra-marital affair.

By: molly

molly — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:47:30 +0000

Well , neo i guess she aint perfect, but she struck a chord with me and i liked her!

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:17:02 +0000

On the plus side Sanford knows how to do the job having served previously. His conservative record is also a plus. To paraphrase Truman, he’s a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.

By: Jim Nicholas

Jim Nicholas — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:53:53 +0000

Southpaw’s quotation from Mark Twain,
“Of all the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself”, reminded me of a story that goes back to World War I, when it fell to the Chaplain to warn the new recruits of the dangers of venereal disease (prior to penicillin).

After presenting a series of pictures of the ravages of syphilis (a typical visual aid in such lectures in those days), the chaplain concluded his talk with “Are fifteen minutes of ecstasy worth a lifetime of hell?” After a period of silence, during which the chaplain thought he had achieved his teaching goal, a recruit asked “Father, how do you make it last that long?’

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:04:15 +0000

MollyNH: re Jenny Sanford.

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:20 +0000

Jenny Sanford ought to consider running, during that sordid affair she came off as one smart, capable woman.

By: brooklyn boy

brooklyn boy — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:37:00 +0000

I give Jenny Sanford credit for not (unlike Hillary Clinton and Silda Spitzer) “standing by her man” and divorcing the low-life.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:48:48 +0000

“infidelity does not necessarily mean widespread dishonesty, corruption, or incompetence, just as a smart politician who is loyal to his wife and family, do not necessarily mean he gives a damn for anybody but himself, for example, Obama”

I for one do not disagree. To err is human after all. Nor, in my comment did I mean to imply that I perceive Sanford as corrupt, or incompetent.

Though his dishonesty is established, at least in his personal life. And certainly many politicians are loyal to wife and family, while being entirely motivated by self-interest.

Sanford’s infidelity and affair are a personal betrayal of trust and that is an indicator of lack of character. If returned to office he may indeed do his job and never betray, to the extent that he did, the public trust again.

But trust and character are inseparable and so we are left with, “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice… shame on me”.