Posted on 06/24/2009 4:57:17 PM PDT by TaraP
Statement from First Lady Jenny Sanford I would like to start by saying I love my husband and I believe I have put forth every effort possible to be the best wife I can be during our almost twenty years of marriage.
As well, for the last fifteen years my husband has been fully engaged in public service to the citizens and taxpayers of this state and I have faithfully supported him in those efforts to the best of my ability. I have been and remain proud of his accomplishments and his service to this state. It is for that reason that I deeply regret the recent actions of my husband Mark, and their potential damage to our children. I believe wholeheartedly in the sanctity, dignity and importance of the institution of marriage. I believe that has been consistently reflected in my actions. When I found out about my husband's infidelity I worked immediately to first seek reconciliation through forgiveness, and then to work diligently to repair our marriage. We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago. This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage. During this short separation it was agreed that Mark would not contact us. I I believe enduring love is primarily a commitment and an act of will, and for a marriage to be successful, that commitment must be reciprocal. I believe Mark has earned a chance to resurrect our marriage.
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One very classy lady;if Gov. Sanford has any sense he will now make his mariage his number one priority.
ooops, mariage =marriage
“I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong.”
Well, I could support this lady for President. Good grief, what a nightmare.
Her husband, I maintain, will not receive any political support from me. What a twit.
and so his response was to go down to Argentina and spend time with his floozy?
This had to be a hit job. That reporter wasn’t just in the airport by chance.
“public service”.
OK, where are the emails?
My thoughts exactly!
If you have a family then your spouse and family should all be able to put their faith and trust in you. Sanford's wife and family have not been able to trust him for a very long time.
If the most important people in your life, your spouse and children, if you have children, can't trust you, then why should I? That applies to everyone in my world: friends, family, people I do business with, work for or work for me, strangers and especially politicians.
Sanford may or may not be politically redeemable, but for now he's not electable.
By my count he's already on his third chance. The wife has lost count.
damn, he musta known someone had the goods....he has enemies even in the GOP there I hear
anyhow that just makes my little gal from Alaska look that much sweeter and boy howdy she’s the cat’s pajamas already
btw, I’ll see yall later, I’m going to Santo Domingo to relax and get my head straight...someone here let my wife and kids know will ya?
Sarah would have crushed Sanford like a slug regardless of the incident. Nothing to have ever been concerned about there. Not a single freakin accomplishment for Sanford to point to during his awful 6 years as governor. Look at the condition of South Carolina for God’s sake. Certainly not a platform to run on.
How in the world he thought he could take a week off in Argentina and no one finding out blows my mind. He must have wigged out.
His chances at a presidential run are now zero, for good reason.
Another piece in the puzzle. Sanford was dead wrong to have an affair. But now we can see why his wife and kids didn’t know where he was — because his wife asked him not to contact them.
So those who attacked Sanford for “leaving the kids on Father’s day” were attacking him for the wrong reason.
And it also explains why he went down to Argentina, if the trial separation made him finally realise that he had to confront the other woman and tell her face-to-face that it was over.
So those who claim he went down their to sleep with her again may also have been very wrong, and have done Sanford a disservice.
Sanford must answer to God and his family for his actions. And his leaving without ensuring that whatever happened in his state was covered was a mistake, although we can now see why he felt it was important not to let people know what he was doing.
But even though it turned out some of the speculators here got lucky and guessed right in this case, in my opinion it was a very poor showing here on FR, but illustrating what has become all too often the norm here, people shooting off half-cocked without really taking the time to understand the situation.
He should resign, now.
Has Prince Charles been fooling around with Mrs. Sanford?
In my opinion, based on this story and what he said at the conference, he went down there to break up in person, because this separation made him realize he had to shape up.
The concept of a married sitting governor with presidential aspirations ‘having’ to go to South America in secret to break it off with a paramour is bizarre, to say the least.
Good looking boys....BTW when you have all boys it means your wife is stronger than you
No duh!! But some Freepers will try to make Sanford come out clean on this one. Maybe that is just the spin the Sanfords put on the freak show.
I still like Sanford. His press conference was forthright
His only remaining chance in politics is that $90,000 in cash turns up in his freezer. Then he'd be qualified to run for congress as a democrat.
And Mrs. Sanford’s letter seemed, like Hillary’s studied coolness after Monica, way too calculated for my taste.
“when you have all boys it means your wife is stronger than you”
Huh?
Exactly how long does it take to “break up”. He was gone how long?
There is absolutely no execuse for his behavior.
:-))
true....
I sense it’s exactly what her divorce lawyer told her to say.
And you base this on...
Sanford should resign, period. His wife can't trust him and sure as shooting the citizens of his state can't trust him either.
Best thing for him is to resign and get right with his family.
I would say that it more likely means your Y chromosomes are in good working order.
He goes down, he breaks up, he spends a few days contemplating things before coming back to face the music.
In his conference he said he spent a few days down there crying.
SPOT ON POST.
Sure, the first free time he has in weeks, he spends seven days and seven nights breaking up with his girlfriend, while his sons are talking to their imaginary friend on Father's day.
How in the world he thought he could take a week off in Argentina and no one finding out blows my mind. He must have wigged out.
My husband has a saying: “sin makes you stupid”.
Sorry Honey, I got no time for your meal ticket. Real men, conservative men can keep their zipper shut.
Go away.
Bwahahahah...Spot on!!
Good man, keep him around.
Heh Mark,,,you and Maria get together, go off to New Zealand and have a great life. They will hound you til the day you die here. And don’t forget to pay your child support.
So someone on his staff ratted him out.
She’s got more balls that I do.
And I’m a guy.
Oh give me a damn break. You don’t take off unannounced and leave your staff lying for you for days to fly to Argentina to break it off with your mistress while you are Govenor. You pick up a phone, tell her it’s over, get down on bended knee to your wife and re-commit to her and inform all necessary parties of your actions because it WILL leak out one way or another and best you be the one to admit it first.
He went down there for sex and probably to whine about how his wife doesn’t get him. I want nothing to do with that man politically or personally.
A very smart Japanese man once told me that.
Husband stronger you get more girls
Wife stronger you get more boys
hell yeah, if you let him loose, the floozy wins
ignore the dimwits with their kick him to the curb comments, your family’s well being has to come before pride and ego, he is only doing it with floozie because he is getting gray and impotent. She is doing it for the money, duh
He looks like one more little boy she has to mother - she really has five!
My OB/GYN told me that Y sperm swim more slowly than X sperm. But the chances are still 50/50 on every conception.
My father in law was the toughest, strongest man you would ever care to meet. Bird colonel in the Air Force, stood no nonsense from anybody. His wife was a NJ farm girl, no pushover but definitely a traditional bride. All boys.
My dad is an easygoing guy, the sort of fellow everyone likes, not much of a disciplinarian ever (but beware the wrath of a patient man). My mom is a take charge gal, dad says, "If she'd been Allied Commanding General, World War II would have been over in six weeks." All girls.
The affair may have been WHY he had to accept the Stimulus, blackmail by the government.
Beautiful children; beautiful family. May God bless and heal them.
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