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In Affair, Mark Became Marco, 'Canoodling Lothario'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 28, 2009 9:02 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Mark Sanford’s affair stemmed from his love of a woman—and his love of the “dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. Mark, the Sanford we knew, “was the self-righteous, Bible-thumping prig who pressed for Bill Clinton’s impeachment,” while “Marco, international man of mystery,” was “the un-self-conscious Lothario, canoodling with Maria.”

Mark is “frugal for taxpayers”; Marco had them fund his trip south. Mark slammed Clinton’s lies; “Marco lies with brio, misleading his family, his lieutenant governor, his staff and his state,” Dowd writes. “The Republican Party will never revive itself until its sanctimonious pantheon—Sanford, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, Ensign, Vitter and hypocrites yet to be exposed—stop being two-faced.”

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, center, is greeted by the joint legislative session as he arrives to give his State of the State address at the State house in Columbia, SC, in this file photo.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, center, is greeted by the joint legislative session as he arrives to give his State of the State address at the State house in Columbia, SC, in this file photo.   (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pauses after apologizing to his state agency chiefs for keeping them in the dark when he went to Argentina to see his mistress Friday, June 26, 2009, in Columbia, SC.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford pauses after apologizing to his state agency chiefs for keeping them in the dark when he went to Argentina to see his mistress Friday, June 26, 2009, in Columbia, SC.   (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
This June 24, 2009 file photo shows South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wiping his tears as he admitted to having an affair during a news conference in Columbia, SC.
This June 24, 2009 file photo shows South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wiping his tears as he admitted to having an affair during a news conference in Columbia, SC.   (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain,File)
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Sanford gave a press conference illustrating how smitten he was, not only with his Argentine amante, but with his own tenderness, his own pathos and his own feminine side. He got into trouble as a man and tried to get out as a woman. -

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drlarrymitchell
Jun 29, 2009 9:14 AM CDT
'Canoodling' just sounds so dirty.
Snarfeh
Jun 29, 2009 3:34 AM CDT
The sanctity of marriage-destroyed by heterosexuals and reality TV. How *anyone* can be against giving us queers *our* chance to ferk it up even more is sometimes beyond me, but then I remember the world is full of hypocrites, especially in the fundie religions.
JonmarkP
Jun 28, 2009 3:25 AM CDT
Does it count that they have no idea whatever how to govern save thought fear, lies and authoritarian control? Hypocrisy can only go so far to explain their utter incompetence. I guess what they really need is "another Pearl Harbor," like 9/11.

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