Sanford Says He Didn’t Tell The Truth When He Said He Was Telling Us The Truth
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford now says there were more trysts with his Argentine lover than he previously disclosed.
In a lengthy, emotional interview with The Associated Press, the governor described seven meetings with the woman, including their first in 2001. Sanford says there have been five over a 12-month period, including two multi-night stays with her in New York.
It was the first disclosure of any get-togethers with her in the United States and contradicted a public confession last week during which he admitted to a total of four encounters in the past year.
Sanford, who made a big deal about not taking stimulus money because he’s such a good guardian of the state’s finances, now says he’ll pay back the state for a 2008 trip to Brazil and Argentina taken on the government dime. He says no other liaison used government money.
And that’s the truth.
4moreyears Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
“That’s a fact Jack!” (Bill Murray, Stripes :)
Kregg Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Or, at least, ‘thats his story and he’s stickin’ to it…” (wassiname the singer)
CherylCarroll Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
“And that’s the truth. Until the next press conference.”
June 30th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Alan, what is the point of this post – that Sanford didn’t originally list an additional meeting with this woman?
June 30th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
He sure does lie a lot. Is that what it means to be a conservative? He’s lied how many times in the last couple of weeks? 20? 30?
Kregg Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I doubt he lies any more than a Lib in the same situation might…
CherylCarroll Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
It doesn’t matter that he’s a liar. As Ann Coulter said last evening on Alan’s show, Mr. Sanford is a sinner. And conservative sinners are allowed to repent and the public is obligated to forgive them.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
same is allowed of liberal “sinners”…
CherylCarroll Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
True! Very true, according to God. Just not according to our culture.
I’m really not interested in ideological battles (i.e. conservatives are jerks, liberals are hippies). However, it is interesting to note that our culture treats the sins of conservatives different from those of liberals. I’m sure that you and Mr. Daddio are much more likely to forgive Sanford and believe in his ability to keep on servin’ the public than you are for Edwards, Spitzer, or Clinton. Why? Because they’re conservative and/or Repubs and therefore God-fearing individuals truly worthy of forgiveness and a second chance?
It’s a disgusting hypocrisy. That’s all I have to say on the subject, but knock yourselves out proving me wrong, boys.
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I believe every living soul diserves forgivness if they seek it from their heart and take it before God. It doesn’t matter if they are liberal/conservative, black/white/red/yellow, man or woman.
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
CherylCarroll,
The public is not obligated to forgive anyone. But a sinner does not ask the public for forgiveness at first. First he/she must go before God and ask for His forgivness. But I believe one cannot be forgiven unless one forgives all he/she has wronged. Afterwards then one seeks reconcilliation from those around them.
Make right before God and family.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Of course he does. The self rightous moralizers that want to impose their religious nonsense on the rest of us have shown again and again they are all too human.
Liberals don’t go around waging their fingers in others faces.
Kregg Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Boggie said: Liberals don’t go around waging their fingers in others faces.
K: BS. You’re doing it right now. Playing ‘unholier than thou’ as being ‘holier than thou’. The fact is that Sanford lied – I think he should go. Clinton lied – you didn’t think HE should go. Makes you sort of an ‘immoralizer’ don’t you think?
Hope for Change Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
OMG. Kregg made a good point. Maybe hell freezing over will help with the global warming.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
At least with recent events the Dems resign. The Repubes stay and still try to push their “famliy values”. It was especially delicious when Vitter and Craig were co-sponsors of a “family values” bill. The Clinton thing was a decade ago. These repubpigs keep doing it over and over. At the same time lecturing to the rest of us heathen Americans why they’re better. Keep lecturing your way into a permanent minority.
(kregg, if you respond to this, you don’t need to repost what I type. That’s why I’m typing it now)
VegasLib Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
(kregg, if you respond to this, you don’t need to repost what I type. That’s why I’m typing it now)
ROFLMFAO!!!!!
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hey Furyus. Why are you so furyious?
FuRyUs Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Cuz I’m a liberal. Aren’t we supposed to be angry godless heathens?
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
If you say so.
TDro319 Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I say up with us peace loving, bleeding heart liberal pacifist who are considered godless heathens according to Daddio’s god.
May we be fruitful and multiply.
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
If you say so.
By the way, can you read TDro?
TDro319 Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Sure I can read, Daddio. Can you comprehend what you read?
June 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I wonder if you’ll hold Barney Frank, William Jefferson, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Geithner, Rangel, et al, as accountable as you seem to be holding Sanford?
My guess is: No.
Liars, all politicians everywhere. If you’d like to keep score, we can go one-for-one…
VegasLib Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Wow. All these cheated on their wives with a sexy Argentine? I though Barney Frank was gay.
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Barney Fwank is different in more ways than one.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
VEGAS,
Nice attempt at wordplay…but I suspect your deference to the intent of the question was your way of implying you’re not willing to hold those in your party as accountable for their lies as you’re holding Sanford?
TDro319 Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Nope. We don’t hold those in the democratic party accountable for their lies. We only hold rebublicans accountable.
Now if you want to see democrats being trashed daily for their “lies”, I suggest you visit a right wing site. You won’t be disappointed.
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Still trying to get rid of us TDro?
TDro319 Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Yes, Daddio. But you don’t seem to be getting the hint. You come here daily and whine about the liberals. I’m beginning to think that you, Kregg, Jared and Bliss are masochists.
Daddio Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Do we bother you TDro?
VegasLib Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Goes both ways jaredFROMTEXAS. you never took any of YOUR republican elected officials accountable. Why should I now submit to your demands? I mean, Rummy, Cheney, Gonzales, Bush, et. al. You’ll never hold them accountable.
TDro319 Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
“Do we bother you TDro?”
Actually, you amuse me. Much like this Mark “Look at me!! I’m over here!” Sanford guy.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
There may be an argument about how Dems are also guilty, but we’ll be in charge for a generation while the GOP goes the way of the Whigs…
Unless Palin becomes President. hahahaha
June 30th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
How do we know hes not lying about when he originally claimed to be telling us the truth?
Howard K Fluffenburger Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I do wish the sex lives of these people Dem OR Rep wouldnt matter to anyone. As long as politicians are smart minds willing the help our country I dont care if they are poking a bowl of jello. But then again thats why Im just a notch above the average joe
June 30th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I wonder if he “asked his wife permission” each time? Still one of the stupidest things I have ever heard – asking your spouse if you can have an affair???
FuRyUs Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
He read Psalms, so everything is okay now…
June 30th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
here’s what I think is funny.. After all the others that have come out and gotten caught with these affairs..he somehow thinks hes the only one that will trick the media and get away with it.
TDro319 Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I think this Sanford guy loves the limelight. He loves the attention. In a few weeks when the hype dies down, he’ll complain that the media turned his private life into a circus sideshow, thereby assuring himself more airtime.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Sanford Watch…
Time’s come for Sanford to resign… How long will it take for Sanford to step down now that he’s revealed there were others?
He’s gettings calls all the way around the conservative realm to walk (or fly) away. Apparently Mark Sanford w…
July 1st, 2009 at 12:47 am
Both partiess lie to the American people daily and independents as well. Some lies are big lies and some lies help get get bills passed by adding and subtracting measures from a bill.
Mot members of the GOP are not lying for being stuck on NO.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:53 am
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