Appalachian Trail or Argentinean Coast Line, What’s the Diff?

They both start with “A” after all. But, really, is anyone really shocked that this Right-wing “Family Values” guy was cheating on his wife. At least it was with a woman and she is alive. I bet there are an awful lot of very relieved Repubs out there. After all it could have been worse. Just ask Foley and Craig!

Gov. Sanford’s second — and final — term leading the state of South Carolina ends in 2011.

Surrounded by more than 50 reporters, photographers, aides and spectators in the rotunda of the South Carolina statehouse, the governor spoke with a quiver in his voice and was visibly shaken, tearing up at times [emphasis mine] and rocking on his feet at the podium. It took him more than a few stumbling minutes to get to the crux of the matter.

“The bottom line is this,” he said. “I have been unfaithful to my wife.

“I developed a relationship with what started as a dear dear friend from Argentina,” Gov. Sanford said. “It began very innocently, as I suspect these things do, in just a casual e-mail back and forth. But here, recently, over this last year, 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 because I can’t resist a Cheap Shot:

File this, once again, under “Hypocrisy!”