“She said, ‘Mark, quit apologizing.’ I know I need to do that.”
After leaving the governor’s office and returning to his farm, Sanford said he spent time building a bridge, a cabin and barn with his four sons. He showed off a bruised fingernail, which he said was caused by a falling plank of wood.
“In the wake of so much destruction, I wanted to construct,” he said in the interview.
Sanford’s longtime friend Tom Davis, his former chief of staff, said that Sanford’s time in near-isolation was “Thoreauvian,” comparing the former governor’s days on the farm to the writer Henry David Thoreau’s psychologically therapeutic years living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts in the 1850s.
Sanford seems to agree.
“I said to a buddy, ‘You know, I’m becoming a Buddhist Christian,’ which is sort of a weird way of putting it, but you know Buddhism focuses on the moment,” Sanford said. “I think that … Western society achievers, whatever your walk of life, are always focused on the next step.”
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Redemption via public office. How quaint!
Jeddite on February 25, 2013 at 9:46 AM
No, that isn’t a quote from Jenny Sanford or the mistress.
The public rehabilitation continues. Will SC voters go for it?
conservative pilgrim on February 25, 2013 at 9:47 AM
Shocked. Yeah, what happened to the mistress?
conservative pilgrim on February 25, 2013 at 9:47 AM
If he can build a cabin and a barn, he can go find a non-elective job to hold down.
jon1979 on February 25, 2013 at 9:50 AM
Apparently he and the mistress are engaged.
Billy Jeff is thinking why didn’t I think of this.
Illinidiva on February 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Not a chance – his idiot ex-wife stands a better chance.
jake-the-goose on February 25, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Translation: I’m now into self-actualization and moral vanity. Pass.
Mr. D on February 25, 2013 at 10:00 AM
I hardly see Jenny Sanford as an “idiot.” Was there a specific reason you described her that way?
conservative pilgrim on February 25, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Well, that should be interesting on the campaign trail. Does he think it’ll never come up?
conservative pilgrim on February 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Several first hand encounters. Trust me – the women is vacant.
jake-the-goose on February 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Yep. Find something else to do, Mark.
alwaysfiredup on February 25, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Based on public documentation, Mark Sanford could be described as that, but Jenny? She isn’t stupid. Read her bio. There is a tinge of sexism in your comment.
conservative pilgrim on February 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM
there’s really no reason they can’t both be idiots.
alwaysfiredup on February 25, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Every time he opens his mouth, he shoots himself in the foot.
Blake on February 25, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Oh please – Mark Sanford is a jackass, and a nitwit, and his wife is a nitwit – based on my own first hand conversations with them both at fund raising cocktail parties on the Isle of Palms. The two of them them are the prototypical political husband and wife – completely self absorbed and without an ounce of interest in their constituents. I don’t give either of them one inch.
jake-the-goose on February 25, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Indeed, it’s the narcissistic “inner journey” – his apparent unsteadiness and even immaturity – that is my big problem with Sanford. The lady travails are just a symptom of what ‘s wrong with him.
SarahW on February 25, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Wonder if she is campaigning with him.
Well someone can be self-absorbed without being stupid. Jenny Sanford struck me as the brains behind that operation.
Illinidiva on February 25, 2013 at 10:35 AM
Fair comment – except it is complete false – there were, and there are, no brains behind that operation.
jake-the-goose on February 25, 2013 at 10:46 AM
That’s what she said.
(Does Lorein every post anymore?)
Also, if you’re calling yourself a Buddhist Christian, I’m pretty sure that means you’re clueless on the meaning of both.
TexasDan on February 25, 2013 at 11:08 AM
“Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Gov. Sanford. I looked them up.”
Mr. D on February 25, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Jenny Sanford was the aggrieved spouse. I had no problem with her going public with it. However, then she wouldn’t shut up about it even though she had 4 minor kids. Bad form.
Blake on February 25, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Yeah, well, I wouldn’t vote for him, either. Once your navel has lost its charms, perhaps you can go get a regular job.
GWB on February 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM