South Carolinians wonder: Is Sanford nuts?
posted at 5:17 pm on July 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
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I don’t know. Is love “nuts”? Is asking your wife if you can visit your mistress on another continent and then going anyway after she tells you no while leaving the state you govern completely in the dark as to your whereabouts, and then coming back and making a total media spectacle of yourself by blubbering about soulmates to reporters “nuts”?
Then yeah, cynics. I guess he’s nuts.
Is it wrong that I’m eagerly awaiting the next trainwreck interview? It’s like a soap opera now. I have to know how it ends.
While mental health experts are reluctant to pin a diagnosis on the governor, their observations of his behavior suggest a chemical imbalance, narcissism and impulsive behavior…
“That’s a troubled man,” said Sen. Harvey Peeler, R-Cherokee, a longtime Sanford ally who this year became frustrated at Sanford’s refusal to take federal stimulus money. “You can see it in his eyes and his body language. I’m concerned about his mental well-being.”
John Crangle, executive director of Common Cause South Carolina, called Sanford “delusional” and said it was obvious the governor has “serious mental problems.”
“The idea that he could carry on this relationship and at the same time be governor, run the Republican governor’s association and have presidential aspirations, it shows an individual who has lost contact with reality,” said Crangle, who has worked as a divorce lawyer. “He sees no limitations. He can do what he wants.”
One psychologist interviewed for the piece speculated he might have a personality disorder based on, and I quote, “Sanford’s history of fighting with the Republican Party and his dogmatic political and moral stances.” Wouldn’t that mean Pelosi has a personality disorder too?
In related news, Jenny Sanford’s still willing to give him another chance as he, ahem, attempts to fall back in love with her. Whether she’s on the level or just continuing her pattern of exceptionally shrewd public statements, I leave for you to judge. Exit question: Show of hands. If Mark ends up leaving her for Maria, how many people think it’ll last? C’mon. I’ve seen “The Blue Angel.”
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God I kinda wish it was Ricky Martin he was banging. Sandford brings shame to whatever he is, be brings shame to heteros.
Apologetic California on July 2, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Stop wondering.
ericdijon on July 2, 2009 at 5:19 PM
over/under on how long till he resigns?? I say 4 days
ousoonerfan15 on July 2, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Blago 2.0
d-mitch on July 2, 2009 at 5:19 PM
What’s the big deal? He looks like Mr. Spock compared to the liberals running the country.
orlandocajun on July 2, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Maybe Sanford has an STD that is eating away at his brain.
izoneguy on July 2, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Are we voting? I am giving it the big thumbs up YES! Either that or he has od’d on Beta maleness.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Yes, another Sanford thread!
Maybe I’ll get lucky and he will attend Jackson’s funeral and then there will be a dual-use thread to read.
Bishop on July 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM
And the fall from grace continues….. How deep is this hole??
XWing5 on July 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Slublog put together an epic photoshop that’s up over at Ace’s.
Fallen Sparrow on July 2, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Ha! They said I was nuts when I said I was going to mate a Doberman Pincher with a rabbit to create the worlds first Doberunny, or maybe Pinchabbit!
But who’ll be laughing in a few weeks when Fluffy gives birth, huh?
It’ll be me, not them. That’s who!
Hang in there Gov. Sanford. Like King David said “The Heart wants, what the heart wants!”
Kasper Hauser on July 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Like Blagoievich nuts or like nuts nuts?
THE CHOSEN ONE on July 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I’m going to go with the second thing.
Daggett on July 2, 2009 at 5:27 PM
He is basically the conservative version of John Edwards. Is it something in the Carolinas that makes men turn out like this?
Speedwagon82 on July 2, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Yep, a nut in hot water, makes sense…
right2bright on July 2, 2009 at 5:28 PM
I think his nuts are the problem here…
jp on July 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Nuts…. NO….. thinking with the wrong head….. YES
workingforpigs on July 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Yes. Republican John Edwards. Go away looney.
portlandon on July 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I’m tellin’ ya, once you get a little SA Latina strange on you, it’s all over…
Wyznowski on July 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Man, I don’t know. Why can’t he stick a cork in it? That woman must’ve rocked his world, because it sure looks like a meltdown.
Sam_I_Am on July 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Do we even know if Maria wants him now? Having a few clandestine trysts with a sitting governor and potential presidential candidate is a lot more exciting than trying to play house with a disgraced ex-politician who behaves like a regressed junior highschooler.
My guess is the mistress is going to be a lot less eager to play with Sanford now that his money (most of which apparently belongs to the wife) and status are gone (or soon will be).
AZCoyote on July 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Don’t know if he’s nuts, but if he wants to keep any nuts he may have (tiny though they may be), he should STFU.
baldilocks on July 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Boy has his world turned upside down so fast.
jaboba on July 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Just think, in 10 years or less, male politicians will be cheating on their male wives … err, spouses – and then wanting to rekindle the flame – this isn’t even the beginning of nutdum.
OhEssYouCowboys on July 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM
To call what Sanford has with that woman love is demean the concept. It’s not what I know love to be because that’s not how love comports itself.
TheUnrepentantGeek on July 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM
10 years? Nah, it will be politicians cheating on Fido.
Daggett on July 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Yes, he is nuts. Tip to Maria…”the way you got him is the exact way you will lose him.”
milwife88 on July 2, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Love that photoshop as Ace’s.
Sanford doesn’t have the sense God gave an animal cracker.
theCork on July 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Someone at Hotair is sleeping on the job. There are a lot of juicy Honduras stories, including protests against Obama and a diplomat threatening sanctions unless they put the dictator back as president.
Daggett on July 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM
You can’t make yourself fall back in love with someone. Plus, why would Jenny want him now anyway? Once a cheater, always a cheater.
txag92 on July 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM
It’s funny. I was just searching the Hot Air archives, marveling at his rapid rise during the debate only a few months ago – remember when he cut that anti-stimulus ad? The first commercial of the 2012 race, indeed.
He still has a few more steps to go before he can claim Blago’s prize of Nuttiest Governor Of The 21st Century (So Far). I hope he calls a press conference and warbles “All Out Of Love” to his darling Maria.
Siobhan on July 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Sure he can! And he can make her fall back in love with him!
“Darling, remember that time, when we were dating, and you caught me in bed, with your best friend? Well, we worked that out, right? You loved me. You married me. I love you. Let’s work this out, again.”
:O/
OhEssYouCowboys on July 2, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I do think he’s unhinged and I don’t think it’s very funny. Note his talk about having a “tragic” love affair and how he can die knowing he met his soul mate. Added with his total awareness of the consequences of his impulses. I do not feel good about it.
Chris_Balsz on July 2, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Mid-life crisis + a little on-the-sly, exotic nookie = bad, bad mental state.
Couple all of that with a guilty conscious and the guy will be bi-polar before it’s over with.
BacaDog on July 2, 2009 at 5:40 PM
If he leaves Jenny, I give it 3 months max before Maria goes for a restraining order.
califcon on July 2, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Here’s a guy who tried to do the right thing and fight an epic battle with The Machine to keep stimulus money from destroying his state. He lost. He realizes there is no fighting The Machine.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket and he lost his will to keep on the straight and narrow.
I’m not defending him nor suggesting he’s gone not off the deep end, but….. to suggest he’s lost touch with reality is understandable. READ AND LISTEN TO CONSERVATIVE NEWS ON A DAILY BASIS and then ask yourself… what reality did he lose touch with?
katy on July 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Ooh. Back-T-Back Palin-Sanford Posts.
Here’s to no Friday night BHO media dumps this weekend.
bluelightbrigade on July 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM
This is the epitome of how Hollywood has portrayed marriage, for years. This is how men are supposed to act. Women, too.
Screw your spouse. Screw your kids. You deserve to be good to you.
You’re all that matters.
Yup, this is right out of the Hollywood playbook.
OhEssYouCowboys on July 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Agreed.
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM
He needs to keep his resignation speech short and to the point. He won’t be able to, but he should.
sherry on July 2, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Who could still be wondering at this point? The man’s a fruitcake. Thank God we found out now before he sucked up any more scarce resources. Get the straight jacket, corner him in his office, and get him the Hell out of there.
TheBigOldDog on July 2, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Is he mad or desperately in love? ‘Tis all the same.
PercyB on July 2, 2009 at 5:46 PM
OK, now am I nuts, or does the front page pic for this thread invoke the following:
“Yeah… Charlie Babbitt… I’m an excellent driver… Dad lets me drive slow in the driveway… yeah… Five minutes to Wapner.”
VekTor on July 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM
I’m sorry, but Jenny just made a huge mistake today by lining up with her hubby this statement which wasn’t really necessary except to tone down the noise from his disastrous AP interview when he called Maria his soulmate… Mark is not sincere… he is going to screw Jenny over again and again… evangelical masochism
ninjapirate on July 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM
I am beginning to wonder and I am not from South Carolina. I try very hard not to be judgmental and I do believe in minding my own business..no one is perfect and never will be. But I have wondered if Sanford is off balance, out of touch etc.
Terrye on July 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Not sure who’s more nuts, him or the “politic” Mrs.
I could see him saying, “I love this woman and I’ve screwed up my family over her, done the wrong thing, been an ass to people I care about but I did it out of an inability to deny what I felt for this person.” Move out, try to patch things with his family (other than wife), beg the wife’s forgiveness, and go marry the mistress.
Not great but, in the end, that’s called being consistent.
To GO BACK to your wife after professing enduring love for someone else??
He needs to go to a quiet place for a long time (and, I suggest, not Argentina).
IndieDogg on July 2, 2009 at 5:50 PM
LOL!
Time for Wapner. Definitely time for Wapner. Ya, Divorce time. Definetly. Definetly.
TheBigOldDog on July 2, 2009 at 5:50 PM
It’s a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Paging Dr. Todd Purdum.
Terrie on July 2, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Et sur mon manege, l’amour toujours est chantant
De mes reves, c’est le commencement
Et j’espere une fin heureuse
Mais la fin de l’histoire ne vient pas tres doucement
Pour l’histoire, il faut faire semblant
Certes je n’embrasse que mes reves
Seuls mes reves!
PercyB on July 2, 2009 at 5:53 PM
It’s going to end with him in the hospital methinks. Am utterly convinced the man is having a slow-motion nervous breakdown.
inviolet on July 2, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Living in never-never land right now. If he ever regains his senses after Maria dumps him, realizes what he’s done, and goes back through these interviews to see what he said, he’ll eat a gun.
a capella on July 2, 2009 at 5:54 PM
I don’t what Mark Sanford is, but Jenny Sanford is a Steele Magnoia.
Rightwingsparkle on July 2, 2009 at 5:54 PM
oops mis-spelling …Steele Magnolia
Rightwingsparkle on July 2, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Hope not. But he sure is in a terrible mental tug-o-war.
BacaDog on July 2, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Being the other woman is a piece of cake. The many separations, “stolen moments” give the relationship a soap opera quality, there’s angst, there’s forbidden fruit, keeping a secret gives a sense of false intimacy that’s accompanied by regular, incredible jolts of adrenalin, there’s jealousy, there’s that lightning bolt sexual prowess that comes only with a new, strange partner.
Being well married is a whole different skill set. Being married, contentedly and happily, day in day out, for years and years, is a whole different animal.
If he divorces and marries Maria (who has already, I have read, ruined at least one other marriage), she’ll have to become a wife (and he will lose his status), they’ll have to deal with each other on a whole different basis, put up with the other’s families, daily routine, money worries…ad infinitum. I give it two years at best.
marybel on July 2, 2009 at 5:57 PM
FIXED
“The idea that he could carry on this relationship and at the same time be governor, run the Republican governor’s association and have presidential aspirations (without the last name Kennedy) , it shows an individual who has lost contact with reality,”
corona on July 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM
You mean you meant to leave out “know”?…have a great holiday…
right2bright on July 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Exceptionally shrewd? That has got to be dripping sarcasm. Why doesn’t she just get a I am a doormat tattoo?
Joe Bloggs on July 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I seriously fear that l’affaire Sanford will not end well. I am reminded of the character Sid, played by David Keith, from the film An Officer and a Gentleman. He gave up his military career for his girlfriend only to find out she had no use for him as a civilian. Then he committed suicide.
I’m praying for Sanford and his family.
Terrie on July 2, 2009 at 5:59 PM
I’ll forget you
The more you stay inside of me, the weaker I grow
I’ll forget you
Tomorrow I will turn and let you go
I’ll grow colder
I’ll lose myself in anything but you now
For there is nothing I can do now…but forget
I’ll forget you
I won’t remember arms that pulled me in, soft and slow
I’ll forget you
There has to be a way to let you go!
No more shadows
No dreams of leaning in the dark above you
I will forget how much I love you…anyday
I’ll forget you
I hear you whisper softly in the dark…still, I know
I’ll forget you
God help me see the way to let you go
I do not want you
And still you steal each breath I’m breathing from me
With just a touch, you overcome me
And I let you
I will forget you…
When I die…
PercyB on July 2, 2009 at 6:01 PM
This is a trick question, right?
irishspy on July 2, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Good grief. Personality disorders, including narcissism, are not chemical imbalances. There isn’t a single medical test done for this sort of thing, because it’s a character issue.
DrMagnolias on July 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Love is a choice. Feelings in a marriage come and go. You choose to love each other each day. It can be worked out if he gets his head straightened out.
When anyone strays like he did.. it’s almost always related to life issues embedded long ago. It usually takes a tragedy to snap them out of it. If this isn’t a tragedy, I don’t know what is.
GoodBoy on July 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Maria was planted in Sanfords life by the deep dark secret underworld of the Progressive movement to take out each 2012 candidate (R) focusing on their personal weaknesses.
Wonder how they’ll trip up Romney.. or Palin?
katy on July 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Serious infatuations in a less than fully mature man, complete with compulsions, can easily make one seem pretty nutty. Adolescents, for the most part, although we love them, are mostly pretty nutty.
Any professional trying to assign a diagnosis of Mark Sanford, with any degee of certainty, absent a complete examination, is patently unfair and mostly just a shot in the dark.
marybel on July 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I wonder if Mark and Jenny were ever really “in love” the way he now perceives it. On Jenny’s wikipedia page is the following quote, regarding the day they met:
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time two people married because they liked each other and it seemed like a good idea. And it does seem like men with political aspirations tend to marry women with money.
califcon on July 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
This phrase from her statement leads me to believe she is being consistent, open and firm. Good for her.
cs89 on July 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Maria is probably with someone else as I type this.
bridgetown on July 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Good lord . . . somebody, please take this bum to the nearest institution and lock him up.
rplat on July 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM
yeah, unrequited love. For example, we should be getting praised for our ground breaking racial diversity and reconciliation (the South is the most diverse region in the world). . . and yet all we get from the R nominee and the rest of the world is ‘man those Southerners are a bunch of racists’.
but in my case, like many others, it is unrequited love that has made us so jaded.
ThackerAgency on July 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM
AP, is bridgetown posting from Argentina?
Terrie on July 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Clearly. The dude had a total frikkin’ nervous breakdown out in the open for all to see.
One Against Many on July 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Terrie on July 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
? No, I’m not.
bridgetown on July 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM
This man is a cancer on the body politic. It’s quickly looking like a recall will be necessary to cut him out.
spmat on July 2, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Next time you spout off some racial BS I’ll remember that.
The Race Card on July 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Sounds like Obama, without the sex.
disa on July 2, 2009 at 6:42 PM
It’s hardly unheard of. At least up to the part of leaving the state. However, having a psychologist who has never examined or tested him imply that he has a personality disorder is unethical and sleazy. One can be an a$$hole and not be in the DSM-IV.
Blake on July 2, 2009 at 6:42 PM
She reportedly lives with her husband and kids. So, for once, bridgetown may be right.
Blake on July 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM
So sue me – I feel great sympathy for him. There’s nothing like falling in love and all of the fabulous sex and anticipation that comes with it to make your pulse race. Who in God’s name wouldn’t want some of that? I think more people would rather have that than a million dollars. I think those who wish for a million dollars would use it to try to win love.
It’s easy to be deluded as to the long-term value of such affairs, however. They tend to have a short shelf life, for a myriad of reasons.
It is, however, a big no-no for politicians. Why do you think so many of us avoid politics? That kind of wild life is for the regular people.
disa on July 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Yo, Race Chip…
What’s that thing on your shoulder?
katy on July 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM
No thanks. Whenever a homo does something wrong the media and the libtards (but I repeat myself) find a way to blame it completely on another group.
Darth Executor on July 2, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Yes, he’s nuts! I think Sanford should cut Jenny loose, move to Argentina and become a gaucho. His “soul mate” will come to her senses and realize he’s a blubbering windbag with all the maturity of a hormonal teenager. She’ll dump him. He’ll cry. He’ll meet another lonely gaucho on the pampas and pour out his tragic tale of unrequited love.
Stand by for the remake of “Brokeback Mountain.” Ole!
Barb Dwyer on July 2, 2009 at 6:59 PM
FWIW…This is from the Palmetto Scoop blog. Ya suppose AnaLaura is Argentinian? Hmmmmmmm…
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jun/26/mystery_woman_vigorous_athletic87333/
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Video: Maria Belen Chapur
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/747/story/800761.html
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marybel on July 2, 2009 at 6:59 PM
It appears to be some kind of life support device.
Joe Bloggs on July 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Why on earth would anyone want someone back after they’ve stomped on every vow they’ve made? Forget the great sex and heightened senses – without testing, what he may have brought home could kill them both. Sorry, but an exotic cocktail of STD’s is not something I’d care to deal with. Hasn’t he also admitted to other flirtations and trysts? The guy is a walking timebomb for not only mental health issues but serious health threats to his family.
24K lady on July 2, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Sanford should have bought a Corvette.
Terrie on July 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Gove. Soulmate is not nuts. He is lovelorn. The same symptons of mental illness, but there is no medication for it.
myrenovations on July 2, 2009 at 7:09 PM
It’s his own personal stimulus
katy on July 2, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Or a motorcycle…like my ex did…
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 7:11 PM
He’s Crazy….crazy in love…..awwwww. I think his constituents need to mount a campaign to mail him a ton of plastic forks. Maybe he would take the hint. LOL
ihasurnominashun on July 2, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Look who’s talking!
The Race Card on July 2, 2009 at 7:17 PM
The fact he’s pulled these ‘vanishing acts in the past to clear his head’ is the dead giveaway (thanks to marybel’s link to the Post and Courier). If he’s done this before what is Jenny Sanford thinking? The first time would have been the last time in my book. So, perhaps, she is just a typical politicians’s wife and should have stood up to the plate during the press conferences.
24K lady on July 2, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Terrie
I’d take a Vette over a long weekend with the world’s most gorgeous man. Unless you hit headon in a crash, the Vette can be restored and enjoyed for a lifetime. The other is well….let’s just say, it doesn’t have that kind of longevity. I will now exit the room running……..
24K lady on July 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Can you say … schizophrenia
katy on July 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM
My take on Jenny Sanford is that she is a Christian woman for whom divorce is a last resort. Mark Sanford might know the Bible backwards and forward, but he is not treating his family as a Christian husband/father is called to do.
Jenny is giving her husband the time and space to work his way back where he should be. He probably needs to be seriously humbled before he can sincerely ask for forgiveness.
Terrie on July 2, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Or…she could just enjoy playing martyr…I hope you’re right and my cynical self is wrong…
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 7:31 PM
That thing on my shoulder? Guess.
I store the slack up there because I don’t like to drag it around on the ground.
The Race Card on July 2, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I love it when you say “camshaft.”
The Race Card on July 2, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Self delusion….
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM
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