Doesn't Mark Sanford have more to do than Ayn Rand reviews?

And, couldn't Newsweek get someone a tad less hypocritical on the issue of integrity than the South Carolina governor to review the works of an author who, if nothing else, is theoretically all about integrity?

Gov. Sanford may not have ‘flown right’ more than once

Turns out an AP investigation on his use of his state airplane shows that he did a lot personal use trips on it.

To make matters worse, there’s shoddy record-keeping and unclear South Carolina laws. If you want proof of the continued value of newspaper media today, read the detailed story.
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Sanford refuses to quit

With his “let’s move forward, forgiveness style” quasi-apology column, it’s clear South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is going to serve out his term, come hell or high water.

We know that he’s not going to be impeached, no matter how hypocritical he’s been on either having his pants down or on state spending for personal expenses. We also know the SC Lege will not impeach him.

Sanford sex scuppers book deal too?

It’s clear that whatever semi-delusional dreams South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had of running for President in 2012 went by the boards when he dropped his pants in Argentina, and possibly elsewhere, over the last several years before getting caught. Now, it looks like a book deal he had is probably also kaput.

Hell, I think Penguin should give him more money if he’ll tell all, including a real confessional of how much of a douche he knew he was, years ago already.

SC GOP chair says time for Sanford to quit

South Carolina Republican Party Chairwoman Karen Floyd has added her name to the swelling chorus of calls for Gov. Mark Sanford to resign.

“For the past two days, I have been speaking with Republican leaders across South Carolina,” she said in a statement. “There is clearly a growing view that the time may have come for Governor Sanford to remove himself and his family from the limelight, so that he can devote his efforts full-time to repairing the damage in his personal life.”

Also in that swelling chorus? Sen. Jim DeMint.

Meanwhile, Josh Marshall notes that the gov appears to be trying to force his wife to divorce him, so he can go with the flame called Maria, instead of him having to be even more of the bad guy.

So, I disagree with the SC GOP. Let Marky Mark stay for a while. Maybe he will name names on these other women with whom he has “crossed lines.” Or maybe he’ll do the political equivalent of going postal and start spilling the beans on others. Or maybe he’ll tell us about other lines he crossed. (Check those bathroom stalls at Atlanta Hartsfield!)

Do the really right thing, Gov. Stay in office and continue to entertain us.

Did gOd tell Sanford to lie about frequency of affair?

Earlier today, it was reported that adulterous Republican Mark Sanford, the South Carolina governor, said gOd wanted him to stay in office.

Did gOd also tell Sanford not to publicly disclose all the times he met Maria Belen Chapur, in New York City as well as Buenos Aires?

Sanford sez God wants him to remain gov

Yep, even more so than Monica Conyers two weeks ago, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is now the politician who officially knows the will of gOd. Or else, more full of bullshit than a 1,000-pound Brahma.

Did gOd also tell Sanford not to publicly disclose all the times he met Maria Belen Chapur, in New York City as well as Buenos Aires

The wrap on Gov. Sanford’s self-inflicted wounds

The State, Columbia, S.C.’s paper, has a set of great articles on how Gov. Mark Sanford wrecked his political career. First, from Sunday, the paper says five things brought Sanford down. Then, if you can’t remember anything, it has a handy timetable. And today, we get the latest in the South Carolina GOP Sanford death watch.

I still doubt Sanford will resign, but who knows?

Xn Right No. 1 on porn, preggers, divorces

Don’t wanna believe me? It’s all true, per the Census Bureau, the Guttmacher Institute and research studies. In the wake of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford joining Nevada Sen. John Ensign in the GOP Pants Watch brigade, the New York Times’ Charles Blow puts those findings in one convenient op-ed package. He uses the analogy of the original Clean Air Act of way back in 1963, with further development after that.

In order of headline subjects:

A study titled “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” that was conducted by Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor of business at Harvard Business School and published earlier this year in the Journal of Economic Perspectives found that subscriptions to online pornography sites were “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality” and in states where “more people agree that ‘I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage.’ ” …

According to 2006 data from the Guttmacher Institute, red states accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest teenage birthrates. …

According to the Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract, states that went Republican in November accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest divorce rates in 2006.

So, could the next Republican offender to join the GOP Pants Watch at least have the courtesy of giving us the trifecta, by knocking up a 19-year-old not his wife while watching porn with her?

And, would that the urban legend about celebrity deaths, that “these things happen in threes,” were true and applied to self-inflicted political flameouts. (Monica Conyers is too small to count, and I’m focused on the Republican sex hypocrisy shtick right now anyway.)

Hmm, Sarah Palin wears the pants in her family anyway, right? Maybe she could have another affair.

It’s time to stone to death Ensign and Sanford

Joe Conason carefully reminds us about the biblical penalty, coming from the Mosaic law that conservative Christians, and their conservative Republican political exploiters and abetters like Nevada Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, for the sin of adultery.

So, let’s get some stones picked up. If you don’t feel you have a strong arm, I believe a “petard” doubles as a sling.

Sanford affair leaves The State as well as state with egg on face

South Carolina’s capital-city newspaper, The State, allegedly had copies of the e-mails between Gov. Mark Sanford and his Buenos Aires mistress, Maria, six months ago, one of many revelations from an in-depth Washington Post story:

Late Wednesday, the State, a South Carolina newspaper, published e-mails between Sanford's personal account and the woman it identified as "Maria" in Buenos Aires. The newspaper said it obtained the messages in December, but did not explain why it waited to publish them.

That, in turn, makes this column by Gina Smith at The State “interesting” at least. She wonders why no DC media is at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport.

Well, considering your newspaper had been sitting on a bombshell for six months…

My question is, did Smith herself know about the e-mails, and when?

She indicates she did, and says The State will have a big "wrap" story Sunday.

Meanwhile, headed back to the Post story:

And, during these last days, before going public, he apparently bared his soul to former peers in Washington from his days as a Congressman (shades of John Ensign!):

Sanford referred obliquely to receiving spiritual guidance from a Christian bible study group in Washington that he identified only as "C Street." The group holds private weekly prayer and counseling meetings at a Capitol Hill home shared by several members of Congress.

Finally, Sanford is refusing to resign, partly because Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, already looking at a 2010 run himself, would step up, and the two loathe each other.

Update: Sanford apparently originally had a two-week rendezvous planned with the now-identified Maria Belen Chapur. And, this was after his wife insisted on their trial separation.

Boy, talk about pouring gasoline on yourself.

SC GOP Sunday barbecue menu – Mark Sanford

First, we have scorned wife, Jenny Sanford, emotionally as well as sexually betrayed by e-mails to Maria.

You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty.

And now, Jenny Sanford, the theoretically unsophisticated hausfrau has her own statement out, hurts and all:

We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.

The hurt, even scorned, Southern woman?

Strike one with the chivalrous South Carolina GOP.

Second, Sanford knew this woman at least eight years, and went to Argentina before on the state taxpayer dime.

Strike two with the fiscally conservative South Carolina GOP.

And, the hypocrisy of a Father’s Day weekend tryst has even the one of the conservative bloviosphere witches aghast, calling you a bastard.

Strike three with the Southern proprieties South Carolina GOP.

The South Carolina GOP is having a barbecue this weekend, and Gov. Sanford is the main course, I guarohntee.

Update: Sanford apparently originally had a two-week rendezvous planned with the now-identified Maria Belen Chapur. And, this was after his wife insisted on their trial separation.

Boy, talk about pouring gasoline on yourself. Strike four. I do not care how much you hate your Light Gov, you had better step down now.

Gov. Sanford: They call his flame Maria

The State, Columbia’s newspaper, has copies of e-mails exchanged between Gov. Mark Sanford, and his “battery recharger,” a woman from Buenos Aires, Argentina known as Maria.

Oh, and while this was about sex, sex, sex, stereotypically, women don’t like emotional infidelity, and Gov. Johnny D. Pantsed had that, too:

You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty.

So, your wife, Jenny, then is unsophisticated and graceless? Oops…

And now, Jenny Sanford has her own statement out, hurts and all:

We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.

The hurt, even scorned, Southern woman?

The South Carolina GOP is having a barbecue this weekend, and Gov. Sanford is the main course, I guarohntee.

Or, from Buenos Aires… Ay, chingada!

Update: Sanford apparently originally had a two-week rendezvous planned with the now-identified Maria Belen Chapur. And, this was after his wife insisted on their trial separation.

Boy, talk about pouring gasoline on yourself.

GOP ‘pants watch’ claims Sanford as latest victim

So, South Carolina Gov. Sanford wasn’t climbing the Appalachian Mountains, but instead the twin peaks of Buenos Aires.

And, Fox News once again identified a hypocritical Republican as a Democrat.

And, a new GOP hypocrisy watch phrase has entered the lexicon: “Recharging your batteries.”

Guess he will not be running for Prez in three years.

Will the last 2012 GOP presidential candidate with his pants on please stand up?

Speaking of that, given the amount of enemies Sanford has made within his own party, there's talk around Columbia that he needs to resign - or else possibly face impeachment.