[Verginius Rufus]

Sanford has been divorced since 2010 and is "engaged" to his Argentinian girlfriend. If he would just go ahead and marry her, he'd be on the same level as lots of other Washington politicians who have gotten divorced and then remarried--apart from the way he humiliated his then-wife by the media attention his affair garnered.

Not to condone his behavior but it isn't out of the ordinary for politicians.

I don't know if there is some legal obstacle that is delaying his getting married again--or if the claim that they are "engaged" is just a sham and he feels that the public doesn't (by and large) hold cohabitation without marriage against politicians nowadays.

[dfwgator]

Not to condone his behavior but it isn't out of the ordinary for politicians.

And we let it get to the point where it doesn't matter anymore....we just keep dropping our standards more and more, it's no wonder we find ourselves where we are now.