Agreed. Sanford seems a bit unbalanced to me. Did he really think he could get away with this? And his blubbering press conference was a disgusting spectacle. One would expect a 6-year-old boy to carry on like that, but not a grown man.
I did not see the press conference live, but later that day saw about all I could take of it - which was maybe a third of its actual run time. At that, I saw about 5x what you would have needed to see to form the correct conclusion that what you were seeing was a man who couldn’t decide what do. The subtext of this was that he was torn between two alternatives, and hadn’t decided to fish or cut bait. He should quit and his wife should divorce him.