SC GOP leader wants unfaithful gov's resignation

Yahoo AP ^ | June 25, 2009 | By JIM DAVENPORT

[Bokababe]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A top South Carolina Republican leader says philandering Gov. Mark Sanford should resign and practice the philosophy he's preached of holding GOP leaders accountable.

Glenn McCall is one of the state's two national representatives to the Republican National Committee. He's also a county party chairman and said Thursday that party members want Sanford out.....

[eleni121]

Your link is inactive. This one is stupid but currently active.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFsqcgX29xU

[TMA62]

To hell with that, let the SC voters decide.
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I agree. If he wants to resign now, then it should be and the voters of SC should decide. If he wants to run again, the voters of SC have the last say.

[Sir_Ed]

Y’know...that makes a lot of sense to me.

You can be in love with someone not your wife, and even though there’s no sex it is still a form of adultery. He’s still betraying his wife.

You’re right.

Ed

[Palmettomom]

I was going to express the same ideas, but you beat me to it.

[FreepShop1]

If Mark Sanford resigns we may see the first gay governor in SC history.

[TornadoAlley3]

sorry, works for me.

[humblegunner]

Jenny Sanford has to have pictures of herself as the humiliated wife in the media.

Yuck! And you wonder why he strayed?

[Maelstorm]

I say first things first. What Mark did was wrong but if anyone is going to resign it should be the GOP flacks who fought the Governor to receive stimulus funds from Obama. Sexual infidelity is by far not the the worst thing that is going on in government. We have been spent into debt like never before. More money is flowing out of Washington in the first 5 months of the Obama Administration than has went to fight both the war in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan for there entire duration and this is not even counting the 9 trillion printed up that can’t be accounted for. We need some perspective.

I’ll call for Mark’s resignation only when someone is calling for the resignation of the real criminals in government many who deserve far worse than public shame.

[Carry_Okie]

So not keeping it in his pants has absolutely nothing to do with it?

A rhetorical question unworthy of being addressed.

[Bokababe]

"Sanford screwed up, for sure. But I, for one, can cast no stones. I have fallen short of perfection many, many times... and that is just so far today."

You're a good guy, PalmettoMason, and you're a Christian we can all learn from.

All the Best!

BB

[Theodore R.]

Yes, that’s the way the American people want it. They see no hyposcrisy at all.

[Theodore R.]

Seems like you can’t get anyone good elected in SC since Strom kicked the bucket.

[Norman Bates]

Inconclusive.

[wardaddy]

I agree...we’re not Democrats

[Bokababe]

"I know what I want. I want a picture of that woman. I want it plastered everywhere, with a scarlet A. Jenny Sanford has to have pictures of herself as the humiliated wife in the media. Where are the pictures of Maria la Puta de Argentina!!?"

Those photos will come soon enough, a few blurry ones have shown up already. She'll become the Monica Lewinsky of the 2000's -- which I don't see as a good thing at all. "The other woman" should remain a faceless, nameless slut who you can vent on without hating a real person -- a nobody, irrelevant when viewed from the distance of anonymity, just until you can get past your uncontrolled anger at HIM.

On the few occasions I could actual stomach watching lover's triangles on talk shows, it always use to bug me to see two women ready to rip each other's hearts out over some loser guy who would sit between them silently, unmolested. What those women should have done is turn on him and rip HIS heart out -- he's the one who made a vow and broke it, not the other woman; he's the one who couldn't keep his pants zipped to save his family. Who in the hell knows what he told that other woman about his life? IMHO, it's time for women to wise up and quit turning on each other in these circumstances, and quit treating the guy like some overgrown infant who isn't responsible for the promises HE made. While we are all human and capable of sin, a guy who cheats shouldn't be some "prize" to be fought over for any woman with self-respect.

And I say this never, ever having been "the other woman", but rather as someone who was once in Jenny's shoes.

[Robert Lomax]

I’ll bet he was relieved to hear of MJ’s death.....

[MilspecRob]

If someone does a great job but cheats on his wife/husband you don’t fire him.

In fact large corporations and small do fire cheats all the time.

There judged "unreliable"

[Mamzelle]

re: On the few occasions I could actual stomach watching lover's triangles on talk shows, it always use to bug me to see two women ready to rip each other's hearts out over some loser guy who would sit between them silently, unmolested. What those women should have done is turn on him and rip HIS heart out -- he's the one who made a vow and broke it, not the other woman)))

I hear you, BUT--there is this cultural disconnect that doesn't hold the Other Woman in the disrepute she deserves. Is she tearing a family apart because she's selfish, self-indulgent, horny? Yeah! Does she have a conscience? Maybe. Should that conscience rebuke her--certainly.

Isn't a woman supposed to have honor, just like a man? Why treat her like she's some kind of disembodied, soulless receptacle?

Plus, Sanford's urge to protect the mistress, and his lack of concern for his family, his state and his party ticks me off. Makes me want to see her in an old-fashioned public stockade, just because it would make Mark cry.

It takes two adults for an adultery. It stinks to let her off any hook at all.

[Bokababe]

"I hear you, BUT--there is this cultural disconnect that doesn't hold the Other Woman in the disrepute she deserves. Is she tearing a family apart because she's selfish, self-indulgent, horny? Yeah! Does she have a conscience? Maybe. Should that conscience rebuke her--certainly."

And I hear you, too, Mamzelle.

The thing is that by including the other woman in this mess, you are, inadvertently giving the other woman a role in the marraige. And she doesn't have a role in the marraige. She's just a distraction away from the marraige --what was Mark's distraction away from the marriage will become Jenny's distraction away from the marriage, if she lets it.

Plaster Maria la Puta de Argentina's face all over as "the other woman", I guarantee that the first thing that will happen is that the wife will now look at the other woman and say to herself, "What has she got that I don't have?" -- and so will everyone else -- it will turn into a comparathon. The second thing that will happen in this morally challenged culture is that it will make the other woman a celebrity -- famous and not infamous as you would like. These are not the days of the Puritans where that "A" means anything to people, other than a role in a soap opera. And the third thing that will happen is that the husband will feel a need to defend the other woman because he knows in his heart that he's the one who put her in this mess, one again distracting him away from the marraige and toward the other woman.

IMHO, the best possible thing that husband and wife can do is focus on each other and render the other woman irrelevant. I can't think of much worse punishment for the other woman than to be told by both husband and wife, "You don't matter anymore to us."

As for the other woman's "conscience" and "honor", she's got to live with that and make her peace with that -- on her own time, alone. Maybe she'll think twice next time before she allows herself to be where she doesn't belong.

On the other hand, if this couple has problems that are much bigger than this other woman and can't work it out, that's between them.

[Clear Rivers]

Picture of Maria here