The Sanford Affair

| Wed Jun. 24, 2009 10:45 AM PDT

Mark Sanford's latest adminssion in the saga renders moot all other theories about why he spent the last week in Argentina without telling anyone: He was having an affair.

"I've been unfaithful to my wife and I've developed a relationship with what stared as a dear, dear friend from Argentina," he finally said. The affair has been going on for a year, he later explained.

Sanford announced that he is resigning as head of the Republican Governors Association.

"I spent the past five days of my life crying in Argentina," he said, "so I could come back and cry here."

 

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Realization...

It's good to know that Gov Sanford has come to a decision to say it in public.I guess it is not easy to to come out and say that he is having an affair and that he is resigning as head of the governors association.I salute him for that.
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