Every so often the news brings us a complete train wreck, the person who can’t help but do everything wrong. Today it’s South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who has been discovered having a very public sexual liaison with an Argentinian-woman-not-his-wife. In so doing, he has given us a new euphemism for sexual misconduct: “hiking the Appalachian Trail.”
Let’s count the ways Sanford has screwed up: Having the affair. Talking about it. Lying to his staff. His family. The citizens of South Carolina. Co-mingling business trips with personal trips. Public disclosure of intimate emails. Talking and lying some more. Feigning remorse. Prattling on about his “soulmate.” Making the painful observation that he would try to fall in love with his wife again. So much talk.
Some free counsel: keep it in your pants, governor. Shut your pie hole. Try something else, I don’t know, how about governing. Succeed publicly and fail privately. Get out of the news, pronto. Keep your schoolboy crushes to yourself. Respect your family. Tough it out.
Be a man.
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