For our good -- or for his?

I don't think the 5 to 12 articles per day concerning Sanford's self destruction are enough. Maybe if the AC would carry an additional 10 stories per day we'd have a better understanding of Sanford's political demise. I notice the press hasn't been hounding his children and their friends about their perspective. There seems to be plenty of room to expand the coverage. Does he have a dog? I certainly wouldn't waste this space on a more contemporary story like, say, the rapid loss of all personal freedoms under the leadership of our current prezbho. I wonder if Sanford has increased the expenditures for his attire.

Today's political cartoon is spot on.

The people that are screaming the loudest about this are the ones that should be quiet. I know several of them that have done the same thing and worse. You need go home and look in the mirror.

Keep em coming about Sanford AC LOL... these are getting better and better.

PT, if it were a Democratic governor in the region who behaved similarly, you'd be eating it up. He's an embarrassment and until he steps down, it's just going to continue (thanks to his love of his own voice).

check out this Mark Sanford Drill Baby Drill 2 video LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uOOujRTVg

Andre Bauer is a good enough reason for Sanford to hang in there. Palmetto heads have a real dilemma: disgraced governor or candidate for the Puke Hall of Fame?

Sanford has ALWAYS come off as a man who wants to feed his ego, but now he is getting downright bizarre. He seems to be doing his best to guarantee that the wifey will not take him back. Creepy dude, this one. Too much information for myself. Do the state and your party a favor, and crawl back to the farm, dig a big hole with your excavator, and hop on in. What a schmuck!!

sounds like a sex addict

yeah right, i bet he didn't have sex with those other women, stopped right before the 'act'. give me a break

Mark, please pack up and move to Argentina. I think you said that is where your "soulmate" is.

I think Sanford should be judged for his performance, and sometimes a big ego enhances performance. Obviously, the complication is that he represents a body of voters who can best be described as "petty finger pointers", and now he can be accused of hypocrisy not only by those who elected him, but by those who did not. Now he is in the position that the non-finger-pointing crowd begins with: he is forced to humbly acknowledge that he is but a man. It is not his ego that is in question, now, but that of his supporters.

Steve, I usually think personal behavior, as opposed to professional, should be overlooked as irrelevant, but Sanford has crossed multiple lines (not just his sophomoric "sex line"). He disappeared without telling people where he was going, leaving the state without a leader. The fact that he is dragging this on with all his public soul-searching is evidence of poor judgment. He has brought too much negative attention to the state, which already has a lousy reputation in a number of areas. I don't care if and how he gets his rocks off, but I do care that he can't seem to do that while doing his job responsibly.

Sanford should have just bought a red corvette and stuck to cybering on the internet when he had his male midlife crisis.

Well, he could resign and start hitting the TV talk shows like Oprah. He has become a national personality and could do well with it. Anything, but staying Governor.

resign already so the media can move on to more titillating news items. i hardly know what britney or lindsey are up to these days since sanford usurped their place in the headlines...

Being a CONservative, God probably spoke directly to him and then gave him the OK for his tryst. I am sure all the CONS agree with his decision and probably believe he is a true man of GOD. In fact I believe they would vote for him today if they could.

Where were you Chronicle when Sanford's ego was on full display when he refused to accept the stimulus package? He was just as big of a whining nut-case back then as he is now. You idiot CONServatives across the river voted for him you should be stuck with him for the next 18 months. Hang in there Sanford. The longer you do, it just proves to the rest of the country what hypocrites you RepubliCONS are and that is the real reason they want you gone.

I will not defend Sanford in any way, but I find it interesting to witness the hypocrisy of the left who vehemently defended Clinton when he committed perjury about his affair. Hypocrites like sjgraci.

Hotfood...do you believe Clinton "crossed the line" when he committed perjury about his affair?

Funny, but didn't hear all this crap from the left about B.J. Cliton and Lewinsky, Paula Jones (who he had to pay damages to for rape) and Kethleen Willy, another rape victim. Hell, BJ was impeached and didn't resign so why should Sanford. sanford has said enough, told the TRUTH and now should stay in office (as did B.J.) and keep his mouth shut about the affairs. Typical leftist hypocisy.

Michael, Mark's obviously of, by, and for himself. Too bad this undisciplined egotist will be replaced in the SC governor's office by another self-centered, out-of-control politico.

Miss Argentina is not his soul mate. She is his lust mate. His wife is his soul mate only he is too stupid to see it.

The reason it is not hypocrisy when the left crosses personal moral lines is that it is a tenet of the left that all are subject to human frailty. For this reason, the left avoids incorporating moralistic bombast into their politics and strives to judge on performance (dare I say merit?). The right, by making a particular morality a pillar of their politics, is unfortunately subject to being judged politically for that morality. How you represent yourself is the standard by which you should strive to be judged. This will always seem unfair to the right, but the power to change it is held in their hands, not their opponents.

OK, NOW I agree with you, Steve...being on the left (at least, as the majority of posters view me). Sistersledge, no one can make that judgment for another person. Sanford is clearly exhibiting delayed development. Most of us (those of us who are lucky) have experienced the passion he speaks of, whether with a spouse or someone earlier in our lives (or not). It's as if he just discovered it...which is sad. In any case, it has thrown him for a tremendous loop and because of his behavior, he needs to resign. Lucky for him, he has the money to do that.

Tigger the Tiger, the difference between Clinton and Sanford is that Clinton wasn't in love and could handle his own womanizing impulses while working 20 hr days. The man barely slept...or sleeps. Meanwhile, Sanford is obviously totally consumed by his "love affair"...to the point that he went off without telling his staff where he was. Clinton would never have done that. Personally, I like a president with appetites, as long as he doesn't let them rule him. But then, I'm one of those amoral progressives.

Most on the left could care less that he had an affair. His private affairs are separate from his public which he has made viral. What the left think is outrageously funny time and time again is when the holier-than-thou radical right wing religious nut-cases that campaigned on "Family Values" like Sanford, Ensign, Craig, Vitter, Foley, Gingrich, Livingston, etc. etc. etc. screamed for Clinton's impeachment/resignation and yet get caught in their own sordid affairs. Hypocrites thy name is CONServative RepubliCONS. For the record, I don't think any of them should resign just because they slept around with someone other than their wives. You see, we on the left are not as prudish as you CONS. It's none of our business, or yours, yet you continually make it so and when you do you are exposed again and again for the hypocrites that you are.

Hypocrites! You can deny it, but you are as transparent as you could possibly be.

Perjury is ok....as long as you can work real hard. Amazing how little the truth means to the left. LONG LIVE OBAMUNISM!