Mind you, I am not defending Governor Sanford, not really. But I have to admit to be pleasantly surprised at his current stance, vis a vis his affair.
“I will be able to die knowing that I had met my soul mate,” he said in an interview.
So many public figures indulge in affairs, get caught, and then drag the whole thing out in a back yard lot, pour gasoline on it, and set it ablaze in a spasm of self-loathing apologetics. I suppose the most dramatic was Jimmy Swaggart, weeping openly on television, going through a self-flagellation of Medieval proportions, at least psychologically.…