Sanford and his creeping Creepiness

How clueless can a man be? Here is a guy sitting atop all of politics in the state of South Carolina.

He has a supporting wife, wonderful children, was well thought of in his state, and had a growing national respect for the way he steadfastly resisted the windfall of federal stimulus. Admittedly, I had only heard Mark Stanford's name a few times prior to this past year and the stimulus brouhaha, but he was a man that spoke forcefully and seemed to want to do what he thought was right.

As it turns out though, Sanford's idea of right and wrong had little to do with his wife or his family or even his job. He put each and every one of these things behind his desire to score a few women.

Now, of course, he is apologetic. He is sorry for hurting his wife. He is very sorry for hurting his kids. And he is very, very sorry for letting down the people of South Carolina who had entrusted him with such responsibility, but mostly he is sorry that he might now lose his job for being a rudderless git.

Any man that cared for his children and had any desire to heal his marriage would put his political career out of his mind and try to work toward mitigating his gittiness. He would try to lessen the shame that he has heaped so thickly on those in his personal life that he has cared for almost as much as he has cared for himself.

But it seems that Mark Sanford has a better way and that is to slowly uncloak the true depths of his creepiness in front of the whole world so that the suffering of his wife and children can go on without any abandon.

Nice. This is just the kind of guy we need to see hang on in politics.