It seems to me that Mark Sanford is now Hiking the Fruitcake Trail.

Here’s the strangest damn story you’ll hear all day.  Mark Sanford, the former Republican Governor of South Carolina who got caught having a torrid love affair with an Argentina hottie, is now running for Senate, you know, where he could take more international trips lookin’ for love without raising suspicions.

There had been speculation that his first wife, Jenny, who is more popular than he ever was, might run for the senate seat herownself.  She decided against it.  Their divorce was not a pleasant event and she says they rarely even speak to each other.

So, Mark Sanford, who is even more delusional than the required amount it takes to be a Republican, hatched a plan.

At the funeral of a mutual friend, he asked her if she was going to run for the senate seat.  She told him no.

The very next day, he went to visit her.

According to Jenny, she had already told Mark she would be taking a pass on the race the day before, at the funeral of a mutual friend. So when Mark came to visit her, he arrived with a proposal. “Since you’re not running, I want to know if you’ll run my campaign,” he said. “We could put the team back together.”

Jenny told him, in so many words, that wasn’t going to happen. Mark made one last appeal.

“I could pay you this time,” he said.

Republicans – where money is the motivation for damn near anything.

Thanks to Brian and David for the heads up.