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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:28 AM
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David Corn: Sympathy for Sanford? Nah.
Edited on Thu Jun-25-09 10:37 AM by Mari333
— By David Corn | Thu June 25, 2009 7:44 AM PST

I was feeling sort of sorry for Mark Sanford. His emails to Maria indicate he was deeply in love with her, and, thus, he was in a difficult situation. These things happen--even to conservatives. And, yes, he was a blazing hypocrite, voting for the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act and claiming that he knew the true meaning of marriage:...








http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/06/sympathy-sanford-nah

sanfords speech that corn refers to:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1195126

(he shows up at 43:50 in case you cannot bear watching the whole thing..ugh
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:29 AM
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1. Yeah, sorry. Not so much
You can't preach the righteousness of monogamous marriage and then exclude yourelf from that.

I don't feel sorry for him. I do feel sorry for his wife.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:34 AM
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2. I feel sorry for the kids...if they're young, Father's Day is a big deal..
...like Mother's Day young kids like to think like their making their parents' day special...so instead of hanging out with his kids, he gets some hot latin lovin'...he's a worthless tool.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:41 AM
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3. LOL new facebook page
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Z_I_Peevey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:47 AM
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4. So, I guess Sanford was more like a gazelle
in the headlights yesterday. A lion would have handled it better. Tough luck.

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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:26 AM
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5. pictures! where are the pictures!
His wife is an attractive woman. As Ben Stein said on MSNBC, what must this adulteress look like??!!
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 01:35 PM
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6. !!
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