So he "cried" for five days in Buenos Aires, in the company of his mistress. In a rambling and somewhat incoherent press conference yesterday, South Carolina Gov. Mark "Gaucho Man" Sanford took several minutes to get around to what he called "the bottom line:" that he cheated on his wife. Then later in the day, The State newspaper published steamy e-mails between Gaucho Man and his mistress, "Maria," sent and received over the past year. Very flaky and strange, indeed.
As with most pols, the affair won't be the whole story. As with Sen. Don Juan Ensign, there's the question of misuse of public funds in pursuit or the coverup of the affair, and that's what's being looked into now. He hasn't resigned (as former New York Gov. Spitzer did last year), but that may depend on what further investigations disclose. Even so, right-winger Chuckie Kraphammer called it a "near-intentional political suicide."
(By the way, props to Attaturk at Rising Hegemon for giving the blogosphere "Gaucho Mark" as a nickname -- bravo! Are there better nicknames? "Penis of the Pampas"?, "Governor Lovin'Her"?)
