Reality to Mark Sanford: Please STFU Now

Instead of "Don't cry for me Argentina," Sanford's new tag line should be "Someone, Anyone, please put a gag on my mouth." Seriously, already, Sanford. Everyone would like you to shut the fuck up. Many would like to see you also resign. You're lucky that your own state legislature chose to simply censure you instead of boot you out. I'm sure some are regretting that decision, especially when reflecting on recent information about how the whole economic summit in Argentina turned out to be your personal agenda to get a piece of ass. Asking to see pieces of real estate instead of taking the historic tour you were offered is telling. So is your request to keep your nights free. What I find most hilarious is that you were already planning a trip to Argentina for "bird hunting" anyway. LOLOL. That your state decided you did not misappropriate those funds when the whole trip was so very clearly designed for a different purpose is jaw-dropping, frankly, and not in the interests of the South Carolinians who bankrolled your booty call.

But I think we'd all be satisfied if you just shut your pie hole. You are embarrassing your wife and family, yourself and your state. Whenever he talks about his Argentinian mistress, he calls her his "soul mate". Of their whole affair, he says:

Sanford insisted his relationship with Maria Belen Chapur, whom he met at an open air dance spot in Uruguay eight years ago, was more than just sex. "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."

Maybe if you're Romeo and Juliet, you get to blab in purple prose about your forbidden love affair and make out like you're star-crossed lovers instead of consenting adults who purposely decided not to give two shits about someone else's spouse and kids. But you are an adult, not a Shakespearian tragedy. Kindly do the right thing. At least STFU about it in public.

On top of that, he seems to admit to previous sort-of kind-of affairs:

There were a handful of instances wherein I crossed the lines I shouldn't have crossed as a married man, but never crossed the ultimate line," he said.

Not sure what that ultimate line is, I assume he means fucking, but who knows? And for that matter, who cares? While it's always a fascinating little sub-study in itself to know what (allegedly) uber-religious people think is a "line" to cross, that gets the people of South Carolina nowhere. If Sanford cannot stop talking about his mistress, perhaps he should do the decent thing and divorce his wife and go be with this woman. It has to hurt like hell to hear your husband say of some other woman:

he said he would die "knowing that I had met my soul mate."

So poop or get off the potty, Mark. Go be with your other woman, or have the respect for your wife to shut up about her.

Article link with live Sanford action: Sanford makes ass of self.

-- DV