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Sounds like to me he is still in love with his mistress, so i feel he should resign because he cannot do effective job as governor as long as he stays in office. He should just try being a good father to his kids, not that he is not but he just need to focus on being a good father.

What a soap opera this guy is... he crossed the line but didn't cheat with the "other" women? Is that a lie too?

If Sanford is the shrewd, cold-hearted, calculating bastard he appears to be, then he just may be intentionally digging a hole for himself all the way back to Argentina.

Funny how the mistress talks about the pain all the publicity has cause her and her sons while their tawdry affair has been in blatant disregard for the feelings of Jenny Sanford and her sons.

Here's a thought: Why don't we proclaim next Monday as "Be Like Mark Sanford Day". Without telling anyone what we were doing or where we were going or how long we'll be gone, we could all use our employer's money to skip off to another country for a few days to play footsie with the local cuties.

And then when we come back, say we're sorry, recite a couple Bible verses and expect to keep our jobs. When our co-workers and employer gets upset and tries to fire us, get all defiant and stick with what we believe in, namely, we're somehow above all this petty accountability nonsense.

Yeah, that'll fly ...

We are not buying it, he is just another republican showing his true colors. Call out everybody else on their adulteress ways then convince himself this is different because god tells him so.

This man's ego has no limits!

You thrive in removing the truth on here CNN so keep covering the Rebutticans AS YOU ALWAYS DO by removing what you dont want published . Sanford is a scum bag

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-Amir Malik

I also once had a true love soul mate,but my wife ended all of that.

"He has always been a guy who has stuck with what he believes in, even if everyone else is against him."

So did the apostle Paul before he'd seen the light. Resign and be redeemed for the future.

T.T.L. = To the least of these. Those who know, know.

Sanford is laughing stock ... and if the Republicans in the Legislature don't get him out, they will be toast in 2010. The Democrats would like nothing better than to hang this loser around the necks of the Republicans.

They all thought Clinton should be impeached because he lied about having sex with Lewinsky. Sanford has done a whole lot worse and charged the taxpayers to boot ... and the Republicans are doing nothing.

The Attorney General tried to avoid "investigating" Sanford until the public outcry was overwhelming. I plan to vote in the GOP primary in SC in 2010 and I will NOT be voting for McMaster.

Republicans continue to show us their MORAL HIGH GROUND!

The tragedy of this fiasco: he did it to himself. His soulmate must have given him truth serum. He has sunk his own ship.

Besides, glass house dwellers are prone to think they are above the law. Sad. Go find a cool cave and cool off. You have had you day in the hay; at play; now you want to work for my pay? No way!

Don't be a red herring prick! Slide down that slippery slope to Sullivan Island and find your boys. Explain what makes "cork skrew" such as yourself. Make sure they understand that you wanted to play the games adults with low self esteem and inhibitions engage in prior to 60 years.
You are a worthless fart!

possible book titles:

1 Not quiet at the south front.

2 Sanford & some ..

3 A trail too far.

4 One flew over buenos aires.

5 A governor named desire .

6 Scent of an Argentinian.

Typical GOP, all they care about is holding on to their power...could care less about what the best interests of the country are.

Mark Sanford I do not care about the affair between you and your God. I would like to say you should step down on the statements you made a Bill Clintion. It only fair people should live by what they belive in.

All I gotta say is, don't even bother attempting to jump ship and coming over to the winning side (Dems) because we don't want filthy corruption like you infecting our party. Dems have had their problems but not like you Republicans. Stay a Republican and hurt your party more as they so rightly deserve.

I've come to like Sanford. I am enjoying seeing one Conservative family-values leader after another be skinned to death in public by his own constituency. It is good for Conservatives to see the guys they have been electing for what they are. They are con-artists in thousand dollar suits who have learned to shout "God Bless America" at the end of every speech to being their audiences to standing ovations.

It does not bother me that this guy's love life is a bit adventurous. Many men have made fools of themselves over women, and I am one of them, so I am filled with compassion for his predicament. However, he is a Conservative, which means that he is oppose to any proposal that would raise middle class wages, provide the middle class with health benefits, and help lower class workers move up to the middle class. He is opposed to every effort to solve the nation's problems. He supports only those proposals which would result in more power for Conservative leaders and more wealth for the global corporations that fund them.

I really do not see why he should step don. This is a private matter for which we have no business exploring.

He's starting to sound like one of those nutcases who think god talks to them.

a liar and a cheat!

What exactly IS the governor's profile. Quitting 'doesn't fit' it. What does? The SC Congress needs to grow some balls and oust him immediately...before he costs them any more money. Problem is he has nowhere to go but Argentina. Wifey probably won't even give him the money for a ticket and he can't get one from his office. Too bad so sad
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. . . And to think, Republican Governor Mark Sanford is a 'role model' and advocate of James Dobson's "Family Research Council" and "Focus on the Family" Christian Conservative organizations. Just more proof of HYPOCRISY from right-wing Christian conservatives.

I think he should resign, especially after he disappeared for a few days without notice. However, I can see why some politicians remain silent about their adultery because it opens a big can of worms. In California, Rep. Loretta Sanchez has experienced something similar taking up with her married military escort, while she was still married to Stephen Brixey. She later divorced, and the escort, Jack Einwechter separted from his wife (divorce is pending)...but what makes her case unique is that Einwechter lobbies on behalf of defense and homeland security issues. Guess which committees Rep. Loretta Sanchez sits on?

"What more do I have to do to prove to these people that I just don't care about South Carolina? Geeze!" - Mark Sanford.

Get his a– out of office. If you lie you cheat, if you cheat you steal. He has done all three. He needs to be relieved of his duties and made to pay back the money he used to take all these trips and pay for days he was not at work.

HE IS GONE ...

AND HE KNOWS IT ...

it amazes me why THEY drag out the inevitable

He says no ...

He says no ...

Then ...

Bye Bye ...

He's GONE ..

Bye Bye

Hang in there Sanford, the neo-cons want to railroad you. Don't let them win, we are behind you 100%

Sleezy politicians: Sanford (R), Ensign (R), Spitzer (D), Clinton (D), McGreevy (D), Gingrich (R), Kennedy (D), and on and on and on...It their spouses can't trust them, how can we?

Bribes: Jefferson (D), Stevens (R), Blagovich (D) and on and on...they are all bought and paid for.

Great job CNN! I mean.., what else does the best team in politics have to do??

Sanford is an arrogant moron and should do the right thing and resign. How pathetic to treat your wife in such a manner as to say "you will try to fall in love with her again" and that your mistress "is your soul mate." Mrs. Sanford should tell him NOT to do her any favors and kick him to the curb. The ONLY way he could show the people of South Carolina that he truly has their best interest at heart, would be to step down.

Yeah, Sanford believes he should be able to lay every woman he can, whenever he wants, and never face the consequences that real men face. He is going to stick it out and bring the republicans down with him in 2010. Sanford / Palin 2012 plz.

How can this man look at himself in the mirror or his family? THERE IS NO EXCUSE,NONE! But he is allowed to pass Judgement of the people of South Carolina! He thinks because he Governs a state he can do as he pleases! The people of South Carolina should through him out. I could not imagine what his wife is going through..If the Republican Party allows him to remain Governor they all need to move to Crawford Texas or down were Bush moved in Dallas,he is lower than a piece of.........................

Governor Sanford is determined to DESTROY South Carolina political reputation and the Governor's Office all because he's one SELFISH POLITICIAN who continues to think of himself and NOT about what's best for the State of South Carolina. Unbelievable.

I don't understand why Mark Sanford doesn't just RESIGN and go to Argentina to be with his "Soul Mate". It's very obvious that Mark Sanford LOVES his Argentina mistress. It's written ALL over his face and in his voice whenever he speaks. He needs to RESIGN and get on with his life.

This just proves how INDIGNANT Republicans can be whenever they've screwed up royally.

Who would want this man being responsible for anything. His daily meltdown is an embarassment to all those relying on him. Who is actually doing the people's work while this guys embellishes on his most intimate thoughts? What a jerk!

If the state assembly does not want they can impeach him, but and the state will gain little for Lt. governor Bauer is nothing more than a undisciplined teenager in a mans body. He is unfit to serve as governor, so it one or the other of misfits that is your choice.

You could impeach both of them and take the third in line whoever that maybe and come out ahead, otherwise it does not really make a difference.

The governor of South Carolina has the least power of any other governor in the USA. The power is really held by the general assembly so it does not really make a difference which of the others get the pay for being in the governor's office.

He shouldn't quit. Life has a way of coming back to bite you and he put the health and wealth of his constituents at risk when he refused the stimuli...but there is more....he committed adultry..an offense to God. Remember though, God is a God of grace and mercy, and because of Jesus , forgiveness. He has put it all out there....he is a shell right now...but a righteous man can come out of this if his HEART is right. Your soul mate is not you lusts.. your wife is...the one you made a committment to before our Maker...now ..please get out of the media and let things work out!

This lib for one, hopes this heel, stays in power.

I can just hear the DNC ads in 2010, first one will start out with Sanford, Gingrich and Ensign condemning dems for having feet of clay, then it will fade to the sobbing apologies and end with the silent print "WWJD"?

It certainly will stop all that santctimonius, self-righteous, holier than thou blather from the neo-con "christians"!

This arrogant creep is all about me, me me!

He will now force the legislative branch to impeach his sorry carcass.

Dereliction of duty is a serious offense and should not be tolerated, too bad this clown is going to drag his family through the mud with him just because he has a "Messiah complex".

Yesterday, it was I will try and "fall back in love with my wife"??? How in the name of all that is Holy, can you say that about your and the mother of your children in a national forum!!!

And his wife needs to yank this "family values christian" into reality and leave this clown. If she continues to allow him to make such public comments about her, knowing her own kids are hearing this, then she is no longer a strong woman and is fast becoming a doormat, and no better than the "stand by your man" Stepford wives of the past everyone was congratulting her on NOT begin like.

Someone needs to show this "christian creep" that actions have consequences.

Gary's comment is:

Haaaa !! little boys that get caught with their pants down, are hard to
give in to understanding they are in trouble and should just face the
music. In this case leave office, as he cannot get much done for the
state with all this over his head every day.

The guy's an idiot. Why would the people of S Carolina put up with such a loser? When will the American people wake up? We have the best of the best in the White House, and some flunky for an Argentinian inabler governing S Carolina. Shame on the voters in that State. That Southern mentality is not dead, I guess.

"Honestly, I think he could go down in the ugliest, messiest way," said the source,

OMG! I HOPE SO!!! Hahahahahaha!!

Hey GOP, given how guys are constantly calling for the impeachment of Dems, I must assume that you like impeaching people. Well, here you have a guy with a mountain of reasons why he should be impeached. Go ahead, have a ball.

Please Sanford...hang in there...you can do it. You could be the biggest money raiser for the Democrats.

You the Man!!! Stay tough....don't let people bother you. Don't let your wrongdoing cloud your conscience, don't let cheating and lying get in your way.

Be stubborn..................you putz!!!!

I am starting to like this guy. I think his wife drove him to this point. He seems like a guy who would not do this unless his wife left him no choice.