i'm posting the transcript of the gov. sanford news conference here...

just in case your community theatre group needs a one-act play to perform.

[*] SANFORD: I won't begin in any particular spot. Let me just start with -- I -- I don't see -- where's Gina Smith?

(UNKNOWN): She's not here.

SANFORD: Not here? OK. I had a conversation with Gina Smith this morning, when I arrived in Atlanta, and I told her about my love for the Appalachian Trail (ph). I used to organize hiking trips, actually, when I was in high school.

I would get a soccer coach or football coach to act as chaperon and then I'd get folks to pay me 60 bucks each, or whatever it was, to take the trip, and then off we'd go and have these great adventures on the Appalachian Trail (ph).

And I told her of adventure trips both in college. I was a campus representative for the Eastern Airlines and could fly free, which meant I'd fly different places around the world, get myself a job, carry $100 of emergency money and either find a job there with the locals and come back or come on home.

I told her about my years in Congress and early years in the governorship, of different adventure of leaving and traveling different places.

Because what I have found, in this job, is that one desperately needs a break from the bubble, wherein every word, every moment is recorded -- just to completely break. And I've found that to be true in trips to the farm or in trips other places further afield. And all of those things were true.

I talked about the profound frustrations that I've felt over this last legislative session, in the battle that was in place with regard to the stimulus package, the $700 million in play, and how, at an emotional level, I found it exhausting.

I tried to make as good a stand as I could -- not for a further political office. What was interesting, it was always viewed, are you doing this to climb some further political office?

It was always based on that idea that I genuinely believe that that action would be bad for the taxpayers, and made the stand as I did.

So all those things we talked about this morning were true, but they're not the whole story. And that's obviously why everybody's gathered here right now.

And so let me lay out that larger story that has attracted so many of you all here. I'm a bottom-line kind of -- kind of guy. I lay it out. It's going to hurt, and we'll let the chips fall where they may.

In so doing, let me first of all apologize to my wife Jenny and our four great boys, Marshall, Landon, Bolton, and Blake, for letting them down.

One of the primary roles, well before being a governor, is being a father to those four boys who are absolute jewels and blessings that I've let down in a profound way. And I apologize to them.

And I don't like apologizing in this realm, but, given the immediacy of you all's wanting to visit and my proximity to them, this is the first step in what will be a very long process on that front.

I would secondly say to Jenny, anybody who has observed her over the last 20 years of my life knows how closely she has stood by my side, in campaign after campaign after campaign and literally being my campaign manager, and in raising those four boys and in a whole host of other things throughout the lives that we've built together.

I would also like to apologize to my staff because, as much as I did talk about going to the Appalachian Trail (ph) -- that was one of the original scenarios that I'd thrown out to Mary Neil (ph) -- that isn't where I ended up.

And so I let them down by created a fiction with record to where I was going, which means that I had then in turn, given as much they relied on that information, let down people that I represent across this state. And so I want to apologize to my staff and I want to apologize to anybody who lives in South Carolina for the way that I let them down on that front.

I -- I want to apologize to good friends. Tom Davis came over to the house. He drove up from Beaufort. And he has been an incredibly dear friend for a very long time.

In my first race for governor, he moved up and he lived in the basement of our house for six months, and we called it Jurassic Park because it was the kids' dinosaur sheets and all kinds of different folks were living there in the campaign.

And he gave of his time and his talent and his effort for ideas that he believed in, to try and make a difference in those ideas. And so I, in a very profound way, have let down the Tom Davises of the world.

On the ride over here, I called the house, and in the background, I could hear my parents-in-laws, who had come up to be with Jenny, and I've let them down.

I had the most, you know, surreal of conversations a number of weeks ago with my father-in-law, laying some cards on the table.

SANFORD: And he was incredibly gentlemanly, as you cannot imagine, in saying here were some things that I was struggling with with regard to where my heart was, where I was in life -- those different kinds of things.

And I let him down. I've let down a lot of people. That's the bottom line. And I let them down, and in every instance I would ask their forgiveness. Forgiveness is not an immediate process. It is in fact a process that takes time, and I'll be in that process for quite some weeks and months and I suspect years ahead.

But I am -- I am here because if you were to look at God's laws, there are in every instance designed to protect people from themselves. I think that that is the bottom line with God's law -- that it's not a moral, rigid list of dos and don'ts just for the heck of dos and don'ts. It is indeed to protect us from ourselves. And the biggest self of self is, indeed, self. That sin is in fact grounded in this notion of what is it that I want, as opposed to somebody else.

And in this regard, let me throw one more apology out there, and that is to people of faith across South Carolina, or for that matter, across the nation, because I think that one of the big disappointments when, believe it or not, I've been a person of faith all my life, if somebody falls within the -- the fellowship of believers or the walk of faith, I think it makes it that much harder for believers to say, "Well, where was that person coming from?" Or folks that weren't believers to say, "Where, indeed, was that person coming from?" So one more apology in there.

But I -- I guess where I'm trying to go with this is that there are moral absolutes, and that God's law indeed is there to protect you from yourself. And there are consequences if you breach that. This press conference is a consequence.

And so the bottom line is this, I -- I've been unfaithful to my wife. I developed a relationship with a -- which started out as a dear, dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently, as I suspect many of these things do, in just a casual e-mail back and forth, in advice on one's life there and advice here.

But here recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that. And as a consequence, I hurt her. I hurt you all. I hurt my wife. I hurt my boys. I hurt friends like Tom Davis. I hurt a lot of different folks. And all I can say is that I apologize. I -- I -- I would ask for your -- I guess I'm not deserving of indulgence, but indulgence not for me, but for Jenny and the boys. You know, there are a team of cameras and crews and all those sorts of things camped out down at Sullivan's Island. And I would just ask for a zone of privacy, if not for me, for her and the boys.

As we go through this process of working through this, there are going to be some hard decisions to be made, to be dealt with. And those are probably not best dealt with through the prism of television cameras and media headlines.

You know, I am committed to that process of -- of walking through with Jenny and the boys, with the Tom Davises of the world, with the people of South Carolina in -- in saying "where do we go from here?"

SANFORD: I -- I would simply say I go back to that simple word of asking for forgiveness. I -- just as a declarative statement, one more before we open up for a couple of questions, and then I'll move on.

I've tried to think of, you know, first steps -- one of the first steps is clearing out more time as we go through this process of -- of reconciliation and figuring out what comes next. I'm going to resign as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. I'm going to tender my resignation.

One, because I think it's the appropriate thing to do, given other governors across this nation and my role as chairman of the RGA. And two, frankly, just from the standpoint of time. You know, if I think about this process, not only does it begin at the family level, but it begins with the family of South Carolinians. And so that means me going one by one and town by town to talk to a lot of old friends across this state in -- in what I've done and -- and me asking for their forgiveness. That will take time -- time that I probably can't devote to the RGA.

Questions?

QUESTION: Governor, what happens next (inaudible)?

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Are you separated? (inaudible) separated?

SANFORD: What's that?

QUESTION: Are you separated from the first lady?

SANFORD: I -- I don't know how you want to define that. I mean, I'm here and she's there. I guess in a formal sense we're not, but you know, what we're -- what we're trying to do is work through something that, you know, we've been working through for a number of months now.

QUESTION: Did your wife and your family know about the affair before the trip to Argentina?

SANFORD: Yes. We -- we -- we've been -- we've been working through this thing for about the last five months. I've been to a lot of different -- as part of what we called "C Street" when I was in Washington. It was a, believe it or not, a Christian bible study -- some folks that asked members of Congress hard questions that I think were very, very important.

And I've been working with them. I see Cubby Culbertson in the back of the room. I would consider him a spiritual giant. And...

QUESTION: (inaudible)

(CROSSTALK)

SANFORD: ... and an incredibly dear friend. And he has been helping us work through this over these last five months.

And Colby (ph), I want to say thank you for being there as a friend.

QUESTION: (inaudible)

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: (inaudible) first and only time you've been unfaithful?

SANFORD: What's that?

QUESTION: Is this the first and only time you've been unfaithful?

SANFORD: Yes. Yes.

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Did you break off the relationship?

SANFORD: Obviously not.

What's that?

QUESTION: Were you alone?

SANFORD: Obviously not.

QUESTION: Did you break off the relationship?

SANFORD: The -- no, it was interesting in how this thing has gone down, John. I think (inaudible) way more detail than you'll ever want.

I met this person a little over eight years ago. Again, very innocently. And struck up a conversation, and I want to go back to the bubble of politics. This is not justifying, because again what I did was wrong, period, end of story.

QUESTION: (inaudible)

(CROSSTALK)

SANFORD: OK, wait -- wait -- wait -- wait. No, I didn't. It was my own ticket.

(CROSSTALK)

Wait -- wait -- guys -- one question at a time. Is that fair enough?

The -- and -- and there's a certain irony to this. This person at the time was separated, and we ended up in this incredibly serious conversation about why she ought to get back with her husband for the sake of her two boys; that not only was it part of God's law, but ultimately those two boys would be better off for it.

And we had this incredibly earnest conversation and at the end of it, I said, "Could I get your e-mail?" We swapped e-mails, whatever. And it began just on a very casual basis -- "Hey, I've got this issue that's come up with my life," or vice versa, "What do you think?" Because when you live in the zone of politics, you can't ever let your guard down. You can't ever say, "what do you think" or "what do you think," because it could be a front page story or this story or that story.

And so there was this zone of protectiveness, and she -- she lives thousands of miles away and I was up here and you could throw an idea out or vice versa. And we developed a remarkable friendship over those eight years. And then, as I said, about a year ago, it sparked into something more than that.

I have seen her three times since then, during that whole sparking thing. And it was discovered...

QUESTION: (inaudible)

SANFORD: ... let me finish -- five months ago. And at that point, we went into serious overdrive in trying to say "where do you go from here," and that's where the Cubby Culbertsons and the others of the world began to help with, you know, how do you get all this right? How do you -- again -- be honest?

SANFORD: And so, it had been back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. And the one thing that you really find is that you absolutely want resolution.

And so, oddly enough, I spent the last five days, and I was crying in Argentina so I could repeat it when I came back here, in saying, you know, while, indeed, from a heart level, there was something real. It was a place based on the fiduciary relationship I had to the people of South Carolina, based on my boys, based on my wife, based on where I was in life, based on where she was in life, and places I couldn't go and she couldn't go.

And that is a, I suspect, a continual process, all through life, of getting one's heart right in life.

And so, I would never stand before you as one who just says, "Yo, I'm completely right with regard to my heard on all things." But what I would say is I'm committed to trying to get my heart right, because the one thing that Cubby and all the others have told me, is that the odyssey that we're all on in life is with regard to heart. Not what I want or what you want, but, in other words, indeed, this larger notion of truly trying to put other people first.

And I suspect, if I'd really put this other person first, I wouldn't have jeopardized her life, as I have. I certainly wouldn't have done it to my wife. I wouldn't have done it to my boys. I wouldn't have done it to the Tom Davis' of the world. This was selfishness on my part. And for that, I'm most apologetic.

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Did you make the choice to go down there for Father's Day...

SANFORD: Wait, wait, wait.

Last question over there.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

SANFORD: Yes.

QUESTION: Did you intentionally mislead your staff about hiking the trail? Did you intentionally mislead your staff about where you were?

SANFORD: In other words, did -- they called. I called them back on Monday. And -- and -- and...

QUESTION: But, when you left, did you intentionally...

SANFORD: No, no, no. We talked about that. In other words, let me be clear: I said that was an original possibility. Again, that is my fault in -- you know, you're shrouding this larger trip. That's my fault.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) on the staff to tell the press that you were hiking the Appalachian Trail?

SANFORD: I didn't tell them. I just said, "Hey, guys, this is where I think I'm going to go." So -- in other words, they would have deducted from that.

QUESTION: (inaudible) Argentina, and you obviously had talked -- did you tell Joel Sawyer to...

SANFORD: No, no, no. I didn't -- I didn't -- no, no. They went on the original information that I'd given Mary Neil (ph) who handles the schedule for us.

Last question.

(CROSSTALK)

I tell you what...

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: On Father's Day weekend...

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Were you asking the state employees to cover up this affair for you?

SANFORD: No. Absolutely not.

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Your reaction to those in your party and your lieutenant governor that had called this irresponsible and are disappointed in your decision to do this?

SANFORD: At this point, it would be obvious that they and others would be disappointed and that I've disappointed them.

QUESTION: Will you resign as governor?

Joel, is the governor going to resign?

STAFF: Thank you.

END

shoot i forgot about ilx and punctuation. shoot, sorry, just delete this it looks horrible and unreadable.

And in this regard, let me throw one more apology out there, and that is to people of faith across South Carolina, or for that matter, across the nation, because I think that one of the big disappointments when, believe it or not, I've been a person of faith all my life, if somebody falls within the -- the fellowship of believers or the walk of faith, I think it makes it that much harder for believers to say, "Well, where was that person coming from?" Or folks that weren't believers to say, "Where, indeed, was that person coming from?"

where, indeed

i love found art.

wish I could embed sad_trombone.wav in this thread.

this is great

"And we had this incredibly earnest conversation and at the end of it, I said, "Could I get your e-mail?" We swapped e-mails, whatever."

^^^love this

Cubby Culbertsons

"And so, oddly enough, I spent the last five days, and I was crying in Argentina so I could repeat it when I came back here, in saying, you know, while, indeed, from a heart level, there was something real."

WOW!!

"I want to say thank you for being there as a friend."

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m35/adviseroosevelt/Flyers%20and%20Merch/goldengirls.jpg

THE CUBBY CULBERTSONS OF THE WORLD

QUESTION: (inaudible) first and only time you've been unfaithful?

SANFORD: What's that?

QUESTION: Is this the first and only time you've been unfaithful?

SANFORD: Yes. Yes.

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Did you break off the relationship?

SANFORD: Obviously not.

What's that?

QUESTION: Were you alone?

SANFORD: Obviously not.

sheesh obviously i'm still having this affair guys

http://www.cubbyculbertson.com/gallery/albums.php

wait, i think that might actually be a different cubby.

the cubby culberstons of the world all look alike to me

http://www.cubbyculbertson.com/albums/Freedom-Isnt-Free/gba2.gif

okay, apparently EVERYONE with the last name of culbertson likes to be called "cubby". i had no idea!

You know, I was chuckling about this a bit this morning, in terms of the film-comedy level on which this got exposed, but having looked at this transcript earlier today, I can't find it too funny -- so far as I can tell he actually did do a reasonably stand-up job here.

okay, THIS is the guy:

How can the church reach men for Christ? Here in the South many men believe that working hard and achieving some level of financial success and security for the family is their primary task. Around that work they want to carve out some space for some fun and relaxation to recharge.

Church, faith commitments and a personal spiritual life are aspects of their heart that are below the radar; low on the priority list. When these men do operate in the spiritual realm they work from a set of assumptions and a lack of personal experience that encourages the belief that spiritual matters just are not relevant.

But a man's interest in spiritual matters can be sparked into active processing when another man they respect invites them to a safe place to pose their questions, test their assumptions, and know that they will not be alone or stand out as a spiritual seeker.

Here in Columbia that looks like men (group size is limited to 15), invited to gather in an office downtown one evening a month and ask any spiritual question they want to some fellow business men and seminary professors. Most months there is a waiting list. Some men want to return for several months to not only pose their questions but also hear how the questions of fellow seekers are answered. After a period of relationship building many of the men are then open to a one to one lunch meeting to make a personal commitment to Christ.

This article is one of several that condense the answers to the questions men frequently pose. Perhaps God wants to use a couple of mature men in the church in your area to begin a similar process.

"Cubby" Culbertson, Dr. Bill Jones, and Pastor Det Bowers have been three of the leaders in this outreach in recent years.

IT'S OKAY I'LL LAUGH FOR YOU NABZ!!

haha it's not like I begrudge anyone else their laughter, I was just chuckling and then suddenly was like, you know, well here's a guy having to publicly cop to a grave marital error and actually not being too weaselly about it, and then it just seemed like the real-life bummer it is

HERE IS HOW I WON'T LAUGH AT YOUR SAD ASS If YOU MAKE SPEECH IN FUTURE:

hi, i luv being gov. i made a mistake. i am dealing with this in private with my family and rev. i only hope you can forgive me. a) i'm resigning. b) if you can forgive me i hope that i can serve you as gov. if not i understand. sorry again, everybody. bye now.

but if you are all:

"HI I HIKED A LOT OF TRAILS WE CALLED MY BASEMENT JURASSIC PARK LOL DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA"

then i'm gonna be all over that.

"grave marital error" = drunken makeout sesh
lol-worthy epic hypocritical marital meltdown = "family values conservative" jetsetting to his mysterious argentinian lover

"And we had this incredibly earnest conversation and at the end of it, I said, "Could I get your e-mail?" We swapped e-mails, whatever."

The Great Communicator.

We swapped diseases, whatever.

"And so, I would never stand before you as one who just says, "Yo, I'm completely right with regard to my heart on all things."

YO!!

"And the biggest self of self is, indeed, self. That sin is in fact grounded in this notion of what is it that I want, as opposed to somebody else."

???????????????????????????????????

so i was like do you facebook? and she was like hell yeah! so i was like guess what??!! im totally gonna be in argentina like tomorrow! do you wanna hang out? and she was like yeah, call me up. then we boned and now i dont get to be governor anymore. sorry wife. fuck my life.

plus, nabisco, COME ON:

Sanford disappears to hike Appalachian Trail (on Naked Hiking Day)

Also:

As the newspaper disclosed on CNN tonight, it has since December had emails between Sanford and his Argentine mistress, it's just been trying to authenticate them. Then this morning the paper busted Sanford returning on an airplane from South America when he was supposed to be on the Appalachian Trial.

The paper then informed Sanford it would finally be publishing the emails, exposing his adultery, according to The State writer John O'Connor.

"They refused to meet with us to discuss them prior to the press conference," O'Connor tells us. "He cut off conversation at the airport when our reporter asked with whom he was in Argentina."

That Sanford's admission was forced by the imminent publication of romantic emails would help explain the extraordinary scope of his confession; Sanford's on-camera blabbering was a meltdown for the ages. It also speaks to motivation.

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/wp-content/assets/19/1602/article_photo1.jpg?rand=904431702

how did they get the emails? i always wonder about this sort of thing when emails surface. vengeful assistant?

why would you send that kind of email from an account where your assistant has access? guy did like everything wrong

"family values conservative" jetsetting to his mysterious argentinian lover

I'm not sure when it was, but this started to seem less like a LOL-worthy hypocrisy to me, apart from the occasional hoist-on-own-petard aspect of politicians who've gone far out of the way to heap professional scorn on others in the same situation. I dunno. I used to imagine people on the right in this sort of position as knowingly hypocritical and bankrupt, sort of playing falsely on both ends. But really, it seems self-evident that people whose lives are genuinely, meaningfully focused on religion or traditional families or whatever have absolutely no easier a time with these things than anyone else; there is absolutely no dissonance involved in being staunch about god and traditional family organization and still fucking it up; in some cases it's probably actually a lot rougher to fuck such things up in a context where people genuinely hold that stuff dear. I dunno.

Haha actually I think the thing I found endearing about the press conference is that in the end it leaves the suggestion that he really quite likes and has a real relationship with the other woman, which is sort of a striking bit of honesty

"And so, oddly enough, I spent the last five days, and I was crying in Argentina so I could repeat it when I came back here, in saying, you know, while, indeed, from a heart level, there was something real."

This is such an amazing quote.

scott thank you for this thread...i had only heard vague references to this whole story this morning before the press conference, so i got to just read through the whole thing in order and get the complete O_O effect of the first reference to Argentina having no idea where it was all leading.

dude should just resign and go to argentina, this is the only answer and perhaps his greatest dream~

haha not that this is saying a ton, but for some reason I'm finding "I developed an actual connection with another woman and now my marriage is a mess and I'm having a press-conference collapse" a lot more noble-looking than, like, "I banged some random chick I don't even want to talk about," or god forbid "I paid to bang some random chick I don't even want to talk about"

dude should just resign and go to argentina

haha that's the amazing thing, this is like the only cheating-politician press conference I have ever seen where you could imagine him actually going off for the other woman!

dudes, I'm overseas right now, is there anyway I can view video of this on the interwebs?

(not argentina fyi)

gotta say obviously a star was born with the mention of Cubby Culbertson but really my favorite part of the whole thing was the THREE separate uses of the phrase "the Tom Davises of the world"

dude should definitely go back to Argentina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fazff4C4HJ8

goin to argentina, brb

for u shasta

pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBr4MM4hcdU

Don't cry for Mark, Argentina.

<3 u elmo.

god i hate this blathering Dbag. he called clinton something like a weasel or a rascal on the senate floor back in the lewinsky era.

it transcribes awkwardly, but heard aloud, it's very impressive and communicative.

http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/06/24/to-majority-media-and-other-democrats-we-police-our-own-and-you-dont-get-to-judge/

owning righteousness... must take so much energy

http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2009/06/Sanford-D_f3174.JPG

I think it's just automatic now. When a high-profile Republican gets into trouble, Fox News steps in to mislead their viewers by labeling them as Democrats.

Adolf Hitler (D) Bavaria

xpost - i think this transcribes all right. it'd be remarkable if it were a written text in the first place and then delivered precisely according to the text. but i guess that's simply how he talks. seems really southern.

What seems southern about his speech?

i can't precisely say. i'm not really sure. there's just something odd about the repetition and bringing all these other people into it and all the talk about faith and meandering around so much before he says why he's even apologizing and who he let down. it's his entire way of explaining this thing is from a different planet than the one i'm on & it's really interesting to me.

minutes of fun:

http://www.readthewords.com/

YO!!

― scott seward, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:47 PM

OTM this really needs more discussion

What a speech...

We can only begin to imagine what the man could do with that golden tongue of his while he's going down on Argentina...

haha not that this is saying a ton, but for some reason I'm finding "I developed an actual connection with another woman and now my marriage is a mess and I'm having a press-conference collapse" a lot more noble-looking than, like, "I banged some random chick I don't even want to talk about," or god forbid "I paid to bang some random chick I don't even want to talk about"

^^ i think this is totally true, its like some weird bizarro west wing moment

"I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light -- but hey, that would be going into sexual details."

"Two magnificent parts"... dis fucking guy

AAAAARGH:

Is Mark Sanford America’s first emo governor?

http://www.mnftiu.cc/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/emo_sanford.jpg

ok wow, i'm speechless

mistress found (already posted?)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1639760,w-chapur-mistress-mark-sanford-argentina-062509.article

Chapur is reportedly a divorced mother of two, and works for an agricultural company.

sanford's in bed with big agriculture!

i feel bad for maria because now we're all just seeing her and picturing the erotic beauty of her etc etc etc

^^^Larry Flynt probably already working overtime to obtain nude photos

TMZ.com reported that they spoke with the owner of a bar in Buenos Aires where Sanford and Chapur were recently. Carlos Soto, the owner of Guido's Bar, said that the couple were "kissing, holding hands and drinking wine." He also said Chapur has green eyes and dirty blonde hair.

'Oh yeah sorry':

"As noted by the Department of Commerce, I attended a trade mission with the Department of Commerce last June. As the agenda notes, the mission was spent meeting with government and private business officials in both Brazil and Argentina. This trip was handled very professionally by the Department of Commerce, and I'm proud of their work there.

"However, while the purpose of this trip was an entirely professional and appropriate business development trip, I made a mistake while I was there in meeting with the woman who I was unfaithful to my wife with.

That has raised some very legitimate concerns and questions, and as such I am going to reimburse the state for the full cost of the Argentina leg of this trip," Gov. Sanford said.

so mad i did not think of the "spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson" display name.

This changes everything! Consider yourself completely forgiven, mr. Governor sir. (xpost)

this is supposed to be the mistress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uphohZs9nuQ

as much as it pains me to post a link to gawker,

http://gawker.com/5302673/a-million-monkeys-are-googling-maria-belen-chapur

yeah, right

somebody wake me up when it turns out this douche could score something that was half hot and legal at the same time

ha, i saw other pix earlier that looked like a completely diff lady

http://www.republicandepot.com/Mark_Sanford_For_President_Tote_Bag_p/tbr5180.htm

For the man on the go!

haha

The sparking thing is branded right into the image, I see.

perfect for hiking!

google maps was no help, but i'll bet you could do it pretty easy by foot:

"We could not calculate directions between appalachian trail and argentina."

Unsurprisingly, Sanford was mixed up with Christian political group The Family

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1821916679

Upon posting the tote on my fb:
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Nick at 12:29pm June 26

Are you going to be selling those things in the free market or will I be forced to buy them for myself and everyone else with an increased tax rate and reduced deductions? Either way, I'll take 2. One as a collectible, and the other to carry my cigars, dark blue dresses, and Linda Tripps audiotapes.
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Rush Limbaugh has somehow managed to blame Obama.

mepipeline (2 hours ago)

Maria Belen Chapur is part Arab, Portuques
and American Native (Mayan). This woman is extreme hot, hot and super hottie.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor_spiritual_boot_camp

Spiritual adviser: 'Darkness' gripped Sanford

By ALLEN G. BREED, AP National Writer
Mon Jun 29, 6:28 am ET

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Each Sunday afternoon in May, Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife hosted five other couples at the executive mansion for a spiritual "boot camp." Topics discussed during the hour-and-a-half-long sessions included forgiveness and "not loving your wife as Christ loved the church."

Group leader Warren "Cubby" Culbertson did not tell the other four couples what he and his wife, Susan, had known for months: The governor was having an affair with a woman in Argentina.

When Jenny Sanford confronted her husband in January after finding a letter to "Maria" among his official papers, the governor turned to Culbertson. For nearly six months, Culbertson has been the first couple's spiritual counselor — and their secret keeper.

The Sanfords "passed" the Culbertsons' course with flying colors. A week later, Jenny Sanford asked her husband to leave their home...

and there's SO much more...

gripped

"loving your wife as Christ loved the church" doesn't strike me as sound marital counseling tbh

i mean, having some dude transcribing letters to your wife letters about how she has failed to uphold your teachings would be grounds for divorce imo

When Jenny Sanford confronted her husband in January after finding a letter to "Maria" among his official papers, the governor turned to Culbertson

R.B. Greaves must be pleased.

i mean, having some dude transcribing letters to your wife letters about how she has failed to uphold your teachings would be grounds for divorce imo

― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Monday, June 29, 2009

aaaaaand: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/us/12sanford.html?hpw

Jenny Sanford Tells All!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/07/fashion/07jennyspan-1/07jennyspan-1-articleLarge.jpg

Southern Discomfort

“He was naïve with me,” said Mrs. Sanford, settling on the sofa in the mansion library, with family photos scattered about, an oil painting of her husband staring down from the mantel. “He didn’t have a lot of experience courting women, let’s just say.”

Back then, she found him a nice change from Wall Street wolves: wholesome, spiritual, outdoorsy. That was the narrative she clung to, when he refused to say “fidelity” in their wedding vows. “I thought it was refreshing and honest,” she said. “What kind of an idiot was I?”

Years later, she said, he would bemoan his lack of dating experience, wondering aloud what he had missed.

a cuff bracelet made from the skin of an alligator shot by her eldest son

Nothing says I love you quite like bloodsports.

He was naïve with me,” said Mrs. Sanford, settling on the sofa in the mansion library, with family photos scattered about, an oil painting of her husband staring down from the mantel. “He didn’t have a lot of experience courting women, let’s just say.”

Back then, she found him a nice change from Wall Street wolves: wholesome, spiritual, outdoorsy. That was the narrative she clung to, when he refused to say “fidelity” in their wedding vows. “I thought it was refreshing and honest,” she said. “What kind of an idiot was I?”

Years later, she said, he would bemoan his lack of dating experience, wondering aloud what he had missed.

Moral of the story: never marry a virgin.

http://gawker.com/5537447/confirmed-sanford-canoodled-argentine-lover-in-florida-last-weekend?skyline=true&s=i

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/01/first-photos-cheating-governor-mark-sanford-caught-beach-with-argentine-mistress

http://www.radaronline.com/sites/radaronline.com/files/photos/image_20110127/MARK%20SANFORD%20012211%2008.JPG

Hooray for love.

This would all be fairly uninteresting and boringly normal if the GOP weren't such vocal, absolutist douchebags about not allowing humans to have human flaws and foibles and to work through them without rabid moral condemnation.

Okay then, Sanford vs. Colbert Busch, fun times...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/02/mark-sanford-wins-republican-runoff-in-south-carolina/

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/04/24/Politics_Sanford_424_480x360.jpg

so how many jackasses gonna rip off this stunt next year? south carolina everybody.