It’s a shame that we have to be privy to such private details of the life of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. On the one hand, if he’s been cheating on his wife, do we really have to know that? However, given the whole situation of his being missing for several days, with no one knowing where he was (although his staff and his wife might have known but wouldn’t tell anyone), now that we do know about his having an affair it’s still none of our business.
But it’s one thing to be cheating on your wife, which is immoral, but it’s another to be so irresponsible in this situation of the past few days, in which he was considered missing, not just absent from his job. (Oh, wait, Governor Willard Mitt Romney was absent from his state for over 200 days during his last year as governor, according to The Boston Herald’s Michele McPhee and The Boston Globe’s Brian Mooney, to start a run for President, but he probably never cheated on his wife–she’d kill him.)
The reason I think Sanford should resign as Governor is not because of the cheating (So much for “conservative values.”), but because of this whole week-long fiasco, for which most people in such positions of leadership wouldn’t be excused. (And perhaps Romney should’ve resigned as governor in ’06 for such extensive absences.) I really hope that Sanford won’t consider that possible run for President or VP in 2012, given how the Democrats would use this whole thing against that bastion of “family values,” the GOP (Mark Sanford, David Vitter, John Ensign, Larry Craig, etc.).
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