South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was a once-promising presidential prospect. Then he went on a hike and his political future headed south. Actually, he did too. Went south that is.
He told his wife and his staff that he was going to hike the Appalachian Trail and would be gone for a few days. But unknown to the others, he climbed on a plane and went to Argentina. He had a clandestine rendezvous with an Argentine TV personality named Maria Belen Chapur, described by her neighbor as a beautiful brunette, who jogs, plays tennis and has big gorgeous eyes. She was Sanford's secret lover. They were confident, at that time that their affair was still a secret.
But the shit has hit the fan. And it hit him as soon as he touched down on his native soil.
Confronted by the media and suddenly faced with the unraveling of his political and family life, he confessed to the affair. He also confessed to indiscretions with other women.
But true to his mistress, he professed his undying love for her.
And the point of this post is this:
Politicians are very adept at slinging cliches, their speeches reek with them. Sanford is no different and in describing his circumstance his colors did not change. All is fair in love and politics.
The following is part of what he said in an interview with the AP: (See if you can spot all the cliches in his disquisition. You can stop when you reach the point where you feel like throwing up. I warn you, this one reeks)
There were a handful of instances wherein I crossed the lines I shouldn't have crossed as a married man, but never crossed the ultimate line. (meaning he did not fall in love)
And about his true love Maria:
This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story. A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.
I will die knowing that I have met my soul mate.
Soul mate.
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