Because Watching the Super Bowl Alone is Far More Traumatic Than Your Dad Hiking the Appalachian Trail
Y’all, I need prayer or a good psychiatrist, either one, maybe both, because I am enjoying the life of Mark Sanford way too much for a normal person. And sadly, I know for a fact that I am enjoying his life far more than he is. That just doesn’t seem right.
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford must appear in court two days after running for a vacant congressional seat to answer a complaint that he trespassed at his ex-wife’s home, according to court documents acquired by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The complaint says Jenny Sanford confronted Sanford leaving her Sullivan’s Island home on Feb. 3 by a rear door, using his cell phone for a flashlight. Her attorney filed the complaint the next day and Jenny Sanford confirmed Tuesday the documents are authentic.
But, Mark Sanford, who has a perfectly charming reason for everything he does, says that he was only being a good father, explaining ….
I did indeed watch the second half of the Super Bowl at the beach house with our 14-year-old son because as a father I didn’t think he should watch it alone.
He also explained that the reason he didn’t call his former wife to let her know he was coming to her house, even though the divorce settlement says he can’t enter her home, was because she was out of town. And, of course, cell phones can work as flashlights, but not to call people way over yonder in other cities.
Republicans must be thrilled with having this guy on the ticket. At least he has reasons for being a total jerk. Bad and ridiculous reasons, but at least they are reasons. Which is far more than can be said for other Republicans.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
The divorce papers said that he couldn’t trespass, but you are forgeting something very important: the regular rules and laws do NOT apply to him.
1I believe he was using the Super Bowl exception to court orders. Of course, in SC he would be required to also be carrying a gun and have a blood alcohol level in the .double digits.
2And remember, Sanford SAYS he was watching the game with his son.
3We all know that the truth and the Appalachian Trail hiker don’t coexist. If his visit was so innocent, why couldn’t he turn on the lights? Something stinks and it’s not his sneakers.
Of all the skanky crap the dirty old men in the GOP have been caught red-handed doing, trespassing on your ex-wife’s property gets you booted from the party?
What’s wrong with this picture???
4The NRCC pulled their funding and support for Sanford. I would love to see Colbert’s sister win this seat
5as a current resident of SC (not really by choice), you can kiss marky good bye. he will fade back into the woodwork, until that is, he moves to argentina and goes into politics.
6He thought it was wrong to leave the 14-year-old alone to watch the super bowl? That was a nice subtle dig at his ex-wife’s parenting. How many times do you think he has abdicated his parenting responsibilities, the Trail Hike not included?
7Hasn’t he messed with the minds of his sons enough?
8Aw, give the creep a break. He couldn’t have known ahead of time about a spontaneous, unplanned event like a Super Bowl and made arrangements accordingly. /snark
It’s not **the** beach house, Mark, you piece of work. It is Jenny Sanford’s beach house, and you specifically have no more right to enter that home than anyone else’s home. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts.
9O mercy gawd! This man simply can’t find the right road to travel on! First it was the Appalachian Trail which he tried to find in Argentina in some one other than his wife’s boudoir, and now its what amounts to a break in at his ex-wife’s house. And his reasoning . . . wait! did I just call it reasoning??? Even Elmer Fudd is way smarter than this.
Get this man to his meds quick!
10@RA:
Never mind the public innuendo; there’s a deeper twist here.
Whether Sanford lied and told his son it would be okay with his mother or–far more likely–he told the boy it would be “…our little secret…” he put the boy in the middle of an ugly emotionally charged dispute between his parents.
That tells me all I’d ever need to know about the man.
The spokeswoman who announced the Republican Party was leaving Sanford twisting in the wind put an interesting gloss on the situation: “Mark Sanford has proven he knows what it takes to win elections.”
He’s a liar, a cheat and 100% self-centered.
11Mmmm. Maybe she’s right.
Mark Sanford is extremely inspiring. I have donated to Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s campaign fund three times so far. We have much to be grateful for with this man.
12The man is just plain creepy. In my book his actions are very close to stalking.
13LynnN — I’m unfamiliar with South Carolina law, but if he met all of the criteria, would he get out of this entirely? Probably — he seems to get away with all his other shenanigans. What a total loser!
14So…he says he couldn’t call his wife because she was out of town…but she wasn’t, because she caught him sneaking out of the house. That’s a lie right there. (And does “out of town” mean she left the beach house to go to the next town over to buy groceries? Or had she left the kid alone for a week while she partied in NYC?)
“Not supposed to trespass” means “DO NOT GO THERE WITHOUT PERMISSION.” But these entitled guys, y’know…they think if it was once theirs, it’s always theirs. It’s not unknown for divorced men to visit their ex- and expect to have sex with her if she hasn’t remarried.
15He could have invited his son to his place to watch the game. Or didn’t he get any of the TV machines in the divorce? Maybe he is still waiting for Jenny to call the cable company and get that taken care of for him? The idiot did ask if she would run this campaign for him, ya know, for ol times sake and because he is a helpless delinquent.
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