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Well, it looks like Gov. Mark Sanford's marital healing needs a bit of work.
South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford and her four sons vacated the Governor’s Mansion on Friday and returned to the couple’s Sullivan’s Island home, where she said they would live for the upcoming school year.
Jenny Sanford and at least seven other women spent several hours Friday packing up four sport utility vehicles.
Women carried armloads of clothing on hangers, boxes, a small appliance and other items to the cars. Much of the clothing had been stuffed into plastic bags.
His wife released this terse statement:
I am so thankful for the overwhelming support and prayers we have received from people all across South Carolina. I am literally in awe of how blessed we are to have such love and support from family and friends, old and new. It is with this support, and after much careful and prayerful consideration, that I have decided to move back to our home in Charleston with our sons for the upcoming school year. From there, we will work to continue the process of healing our family. While we will be leaving Columbia, we will return often, and I will remain engaged in activities in my role as first lady, acknowledging that my responsibilities to my family come first.
That was the polite Southern way of saying f*ck off, dirtbag. Come on, what else was she to do to retain any dignity as her husband (who, more pertinently as far as the public is concerned, abdicated his responsibility as governor when he went AWOL for nookie) referred to his concubine as his “soulmate” in the same breath as he told the media that he's got to learn how to fall back in love with his wife again. Gee, that was a great way to win her face-saving support heart back.
Sanford's problem is that his pious tossing around of his Christian faith and the sanctity of marriage has blown up in his face and the people of the Palmetto State need to eject this former aspiring 2012 Clown Car occupant for incompetence and self-absorbed “sexual healing” at their expense.
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Well good for Jenny.
It all depends…As I’ve said before, the American people will forgive almost any sexual or marital indiscretion committed by a politician so long as that politician is vicious enough. Viciousness, in the end, is the only thing that is really held in high regard by most voters.
If Governor Sanford wants to extend his political career indefinitely, all he has to do is propose some new law that is truly abusive of the least powerful citizens of his state.
Well, bless their heartsJust be honest with yourselves, each other, and the kids, get the divorce, and gracefully retire from public life already. Seriously. Just go. Stop flaunting your adulterous, phony religious, corporate-owned lifestyle in everyone’s face. We don’t parade our sexuality around in public, why should you? Disgusting.
Sanford’s got bigger problems than where his family islike where they were- and how much money South Carolinians paid for them to be there.
Sanford’s in a world of hurt on this one- buh-bye, Mark.
Jenny obviously doesn’t know how to play the “good political wife” game.If she played her cards right, stood by her man, forgave him amid lots of pious, “prayerful” language and quietly went about living her own life her own way, she could become Secretary of State some day.
“the process of healing our family”Those words must have been carefully chosen. Note that the concept of “the process of healing our family” does not necessarily include the ex-spouse at all. The healing is for the injured wife and children to work on amongst themselves, because of the harm done by the ex-spouse. The healing can begin just as soon as you get the dirtbag out of the picture.
Admittedly, this view is very much colored by my own personal experience in leaving a bad marriage.
A recall a phraseThese days, the only way to kill a political career is being found with a dead girl or a live boy.
Dena