This is stunning. On the heels of Sen. John Ensign (Rep. Nev.) revealing an affair with a campaign staffer now comes this: SC Governor Mark Sanford reveals marital infidelity after having been unaccounted for since last week and absent from his family for Father's Day.His mea culpa was this - the woman, a supposed "dear, dear friend", lives in Argentina and three times over the last year Gov. Sanford jetted down to her lair for liaisons. After being cornered in the Atlanta airport by a reporter he confessed to the trysts. At a news conference later he said that he had spent "the last five days of my life crying in Argentina" and the affair is now over.This is a blow. Many citizens of South Carolina had backed Gov. Sanford in his stand, on "principle" no less, against what he saw as an out-of-control Federal Monolith that was taxing and spending our country into insolvency and menacing the states into acquiescing to their demands. He had stood against his...(Read Full Post)