The tragic but moving love story of Marco Sanford - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

cmac2012 · #1 07-03-2009, 09:55 PM

Mark Sanford:

This wasn't one of your average, sordid, quickie affairs, the sort of which Bill Clinton indulged in. No this was a love story. This is the kind of story that will probably move many young females in my constituency, young females who may or may not have crossed lines with an elected official but who have nonetheless wondered, deep within their souls, what it might be like.

I will try to forget my soul mate and fall in love with my life, - uh, I mean, my wife again, but there will always remain a part of my heart, deep within the breast of Arrrrgh-in-tina, nestled among the tall pampas grass, waiting for some far future age to find expression and fulfillment.

No, sorry to confuse you, that was me imagining myself in Sanford's love cage of a mind. Maureen Dowd nailed the guy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/opinion/28dowd.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Jon Stewart as well:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=232258&title=shut-up,-mark-sanford

A bit from the second one:

"Many of us are praying that he goes into a more silent mode . . ." - pastor Philip Linder, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, SC

Stewart: "That's actually Episcopalian for STFU. BTW, you know you're in trouble when someone who is spiritually bound to hear your sins wants you to zip it. Gov. Sanford, the confessional is officially closed."

kerry · #2 07-03-2009, 10:21 PM

Dowd definitely hit the nail on the head. It's pretty amazing that a guy who can't tell his dick from his soul was considered presidential material.

cmac2012 · #3 07-03-2009, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kerry

Dowd definitely hit the nail on the head. It's pretty amazing that a guy who can't tell his dick from his soul was considered presidential material.

I didn't like the guy's style the minute I saw him. A semi handsome face but strange energy IMHO.

Oh dear, what will I do w/o the Botster to tell me that I'm presuming clairvoyance?

Fitz · #4 07-03-2009, 11:37 PM

U6...16.5%...the stimulus is working.

cmac2012 · #5 07-03-2009, 11:39 PM

Hijack alert.

Got some bad news for you Fitzter: the predicament we are in was long in the making -- 40 to 50 years -- and will not be suddenly turned around based on some fine tuning.

Whether many in our great land can be imposed upon to consider their own personal as well as our collective culpability in the mess remains to be seen.

strelnik · #6 07-03-2009, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

I didn't like the guy's style the minute I saw him. A semi handsome face but strange energy IMHO.

Oh dear, what will I do w/o the Botster to tell me that I'm presuming clairvoyance?

After seeing her photo, it's not like she is an amazing woman, to tell you the truth, his current wife looks better. And she's reasonably smart and can speak English. This guy doesn't deserve his current wife, IMHO. Unless she's gonna keep him and torment him as a lesson to the (all male) kids.

MBlovr · #7 07-04-2009, 01:21 AM

What friggin cry baby. He got busted he should act like a man for God sake.

kerry · #8 07-05-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by MBlovr

he should act like a man for God sake.

Acting like a man is what got him in trouble to begin with.

cmac2012 · #9 07-05-2009, 06:13 PM

I have a pet theory that so many Americans live the lives they think they're supposed to live, that they've buried their gut level passions for so long that a chance combination of exotic location and someone with a different cultural feel about them can really throw them into a malestrom of passion and hot sex.

I've seen the way some young women go nuts for some pimp and engage in wildly unexpected behavior.

Mitt Romney is a classic case of the cheerful Mormon, of whom I've seen many. Most of the guy's personality strikes me as some caricature of what he thinks is good and proper. The electorate doesn't buy the guy. Just too much of a stiff and weird personality about him.

Sanford's a bit different -- perhaps narcissism runs deep in the guy. It's a trip the way he's all but mythologized his dalliance.

JollyRoger · #10 07-05-2009, 10:09 PM

It's getting pretty obvious that Mark Sanford is stark raving mad. No wonder Beck and Hannity liked him, he's one of them.

kerry · #11 07-05-2009, 11:12 PM

The reasons Sanford gives for not stepping down, is that 'God wants to do something with him' in the governors office. I would call that a typical worldview of an evangelical and not an indication of madness. I think that when a person interprets their own small accidental life in such cosmic egotistical terms, it's not a big reach to interpret one's own sexual desires in grandiose terms. Stupid, but not a big reach. If God has a plan for your life, why shouldn't it include a young Argentinian hottie. He's a good God after all.

JollyRoger · #12 07-06-2009, 11:34 AM

Yes, but isn't inflated ego and grandiosity a sign of meglomania? Or at the very least, Narcissic Personality Disorder? One talking head this weekend even dared to mention that Palin shows deep signs of it as well.

aklim · #13 07-06-2009, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kerry

The reasons Sanford gives for not stepping down, is that 'God wants to do something with him' in the governors office.

If God has a plan for your life, why shouldn't it include a young Argentinian hottie. He's a good God after all.

Remember the Football player Reggie White? He once said God told him to go to Green Bay. Finally he admitted, it was the money. WOW!!!

How so? Remember the story of how some guy was supposed to kill his son? What about the guy that practiced coitus interruptus and was killed for it? What about the general screwing with people to get them to do what you want? Not so good in my book.

aklim · #14 07-06-2009, 06:49 PM

I see it as a funny thing. That the girlfriend really thinks that someone who would run around on his wife will stick with her and never do the same to her.

kerry · #15 07-06-2009, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by JollyRoger

Yes, but isn't inflated ego and grandiosity a sign of meglomania? Or at the very least, Narcissic Personality Disorder? One talking head this weekend even dared to mention that Palin shows deep signs of it as well.

Yes. I guess the issue is the relativity of mental illness. Is a huge portion of the current American population mentally ill? Possibly.