Was it the WIFE?

[angee_is_mad]

Who anonymously gave the emails to the newspaper? Since it was his personal email, my money is on the wife or someone who is close to the wife.

Irregardless, I most say I admire her telling him to get the HELL OUT, because she wanted to maintain her dignity for her boys. Now that is a role model, who is showing 4 man-childs that this is unacceptable behavior.

You GO GIRL:fistbump:

[Connie_Corleone]

1. That was my first thought when I heard that. LOL

Yeah, she kicked him out the house 2 weeks ago and told him not to contact her.

[dgibby]

3. Doubt it.

The paper's been sitting on them since Dec. She found out about the affair about 5mo. ago.

[angee_is_mad]

5. I believe she knew before then

and I think he admitted to it 5mths ago to HER.

[dgibby]

12. Good point! n/t

[ladywnch]

25. I agree. I think she didn't care as long as he/she could remain in power

with a chance of further power

[angee_is_mad]

27. I disagree to a point

I think she probably put herself in a place of denial. If she didn't see it, he wasn't doing it. That's probably how she was able to put up with it and then 5 months ago he had his true confessional talk with her.

[csziggy]

32. What I read somewhere was that they were going through counseling

To try to 'save' the marriage.

My guess is that he could not give up his lover and the wife dropped the bomb on him just before he went AWOL. I wonder if he had a meltdown, realizing that he was going to lose everything - his family and his political career - took off maybe with the idea of going hiking, and then went to Argentina to see what kind of future he could have with his lover.

The wife kept quiet until Sanford had his presser and the reason her statement sounds pissed is that he didn't own up to the full extent of what was going on - like he knows he has a divorce in his future.

[Dulcinea]

35. Hell hath no fury. eom

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Ooh! Maybe!

:think:

[Rhiannon12866]

38. I would think that this would be the last thing she'd want to become public knowledge.

No matter how pissed off she is, she wouldn't want to humiliate her children. :-(

On edit:
Argentine Man Is Said to Be Source of Sanford E-Mail
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5936989&mesg_id=5936989

[BlooInBloo]

4. My eyes bleed everytime I see the non-word "irregardless".

[angee_is_mad]

6. But it sounds so damn GOOD

for a non-word.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. ...much to your annoyment?

[BlooInBloo]

16. Hulk SMASH!!!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

36. Tee Hee!

My work is done here...

[BrotherBuzz]

11. My knuckles used to bleed everytime I attempted to use that non-word - irregardless

Mrs Krowle drove that word out of my life about forty-five years ago. I strongly suspect the old arthritic hag may have been a Nun in a previous life.

[Number23]

21. OMG I was thinking the same thing

lol I love angee_is_mad but I am already envisioning the long, boring lecture my grandmother (an English teacher for 35 years) would give her over the use of such a non-word.

Bloo, you ALWAYS crack me up.

[angee_is_mad]

28. Now 23 You suppose to have my back

:spank: lol.

[Number23]

29. Girl, you know I got your back but I still hid under my desk when I saw "irregardless!"

lololol

:pals:

[ladywnch]

26. same here!

[uponit7771]

8. Racheal read her response to Sanfords presser, you can tell she's pissed....

...I don't think she'll be standing up behind her husband lookin....quite

[Top Cat]

9. My heart hurts for his wife and boys but that Bas_ard needs to

pay for the vial things he has said and done... The people of SC have suffered enough under his Govenorship...

[rocktivity]

10. Makes sense--especially when you consider

that she's known about the affair for months, has been undergoing counseling for weeks, and kicked him out two weeks ago.

:applause:
rocktivity

[angee_is_mad]

13. She probably thought it wasn't serious

until she realized it was serious.

I wonder when sanford is moving to Argentina? He sure as hell isn't bringing his South American mistress to SC.

[xiamiam]

14. they've been 'working on it' it for about 5 months..newspaper has been sitting on the emails

since december..i think..
i think that after 20 years of endurance and 4 children, she very well could be the anonymous tipster..

[Jennicut]

15. Good for Jenny Sanford for not showing up at the presser today.

Standing by your man always seems to be puke worthy. She wouldn't allow herself to be used.



I feel for the boys. :(

[angee_is_mad]

18. The boys will be fine

eventually because they seem to have a wonderful mother.

[Jennicut]

20. True.

Too bad their father is an idiot.

[glinda]

23. Man do those kids look like him!

[liquid diamond]

24. Beautiful family.

Too bad he pissed it away for a piece of ass. I'm glad his wife didn't show up either. It's insulting and routine. Fuck that.

[Clio the Leo]

17. If I were the First Lady of the US.....

... (a generic one, not Michelle) .... and I had to go through that ..... I'd call a press conference and throw the Resolute desk, the President's podiums .... his teleprompters and every flag he owned out into the front yard.

Make him go sleep at the Blair House. ;)

[beac]

19. I think it HAD to have been Mrs. Sanford who released the emails, perhaps

in the heat of anger when she first heard of the affair (I think the "five months" could easily be a miscount by Sanford-- I'm sure June FLEW by for him) and then she quickly regretted it and asked The State to sit on them. Once she figured out he was in Argentina last week, she lifted her hold on publishing the emails.

I am guessing that the email acct (or internet connection)they were sent from was somehow paid for using a credit card the Sanfords jointly hold, making it legal for her to release them to the newspaper. If the emails had been obtained by hacking, I don't think The State would be in a legally-defensible position to publish them.

[havocmom]

30. Dunno. Think it's possible for a pissed off staffer to do it

or a really pissed off eldest son. If the wife knew, dollars to donuts some of the boys knew too. Eldest son seems about right to be looking for ways to start testing his own metal and dad cheatin on mom is a sure fire way to get the blood boiling.

Didn't the missus make a crack about him having to get away from the boys at the beginning of this mystery?

Emails sent by son would likely get set aside for awhile by a newspaper.

[beac]

33. That's a juicy theory too, but I still think it had to be the wife b/c a son that hacked into

Daddy's email giving them the goods wouldn't give the paper legal cover. Follow the money...

[Number23]

22. Kick and rec for the juicy gossip angle!

:)

[rvablue]

31. Maybe, maybe not. I vote that we end the speculation on this/her involvement.

Is she did, so what?

Maybe she was fed up with being humiliated.

Let's keep our scopes focused on the Governor.

He's the one who deserves the scrutiny, IMO.

[old mark]

34. Looking at the man's family just makes him seem like a bigger asshole.

This guy could have run for President, he has a great family, and threw it all away.

He is too much of a jerk to be president, even a Republican president, and even here.

mark

[zulchzulu]

37. My money would go on betting it was some disgruntled staffer who now...

...has to find another gig...

"Oh, so.... you worked for Governor Sanford. Alrighty then, we'll give you a call if anything ever comes up..."