Current mood:

indescribable

And again...
So by now, unless you live under a rock (and how would you be reading this if you were?), you know that SC governor Mark Sanford (and doesn't he look like a zombie with that skin-tone in that picture?) was not hiking somewhere, but in Argentina with his mistress. Even his wife claimed to not know where he was. Nor did his sons, on father's day of all things.

OK, this is a guy who demanded Clinton resign because an affair was a breach of trust not only with his wife, but with the people. This is a guy who says that gay marriage is a threat to "normal" marriage everywhere. This is a guy who beats the right-wing drum of family values. Oh, the hypocricy! And check out the emails between the two. Just as bad as the promise keeper, hard-core evangelical, family values John Ensign, who also was having an affair.

Why am I more upset about these bozos than the "affairs" of the left? Two reasons.

One, the left has never tried to dictate to everyone on the moral life. Both these guys held themselves up as the example of the righteous life while they were in direct contradiction with what they preached. And those on the left tend to apologize and then resign! They don't stick around to proclaim how it's all good because God has forgiven them. And pity their poor, shell-shocked looking wives. I feel for the families, but not for the jerks betraying their stated beliefs. (And, by the way, notice how ClusterFox News not only is downplaying this story, but labeling him a "D" instead of the "R" that he is.)

But here's the real issue. He abandoned his state without telling anyone where he was going or setting up a chain-of-command. He abandoned his responsibilities without reason to leave the country and commit adultery. He just left. Can you imagine what would have happened in the case of a disaster? The time lost while trying to contact the governor and then set up alternative authority? Can you imagine what they would be saying if he was on the left about this?