Posted by
VBushmills on Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:29:36 AM
First, we should all know that five months ago Mark Sanford knew he was not a rising star in the Republican Party even if we did not. So let that notion go. He knew yesterday had to come at some time, his wife knew, and I suspect, even the rest of his family. I just wish it had been some other tomorrow.
His reasons for infidelity can range from just being a swinging horn-dog to a loveless marriage built around political careerism. I'll leave that answer to the muckrackers these nest few weeks.
It's just as well. They say love is a kind of madness, and the sweet aroma of sex to an almost fifty-something certainly is, and there are times and places when a man will risk almost everything, including family and career to bathe...just one last time...in that scented pool in the secret garden.
Mark Sanford was, probably still is, an able politician with a conservative bent, but true conservative never, and it's best we found this out sooner than later, for in a time of real war against an evil that has set out to destroy the very essence of liberty in this land, a true conservative would have passed on the Latin broad and clung to the cross of Liberty, standing firm at the wall.
Instead, at a time when all our forces need to marshaled at the barricade, Cap and Trade, health care, Iran, all the marching bands and cheering throngs suddenly stopped and fixed their eyes on Columbia...where they will dutifully remain until all the really serious threats have been safely sneaked past our guard posts.
With a selfishness that truly does seem to bespeak the era, Mark Sanford couldn't wait...and with impeccable timing...if you're a Democrat....drove a lance into the body of the republic in a maner in which his self-centered little sould could never imagine.
VB