The Conservative Bulwark

Oh, Mark Sanford. How big of a moron are you?
Did you think everyone else was as clueless as you appear to be?

I can't decide if its mostly extreme hubris or catostrophic idiocy that creeps into the minds of some of our elected leaders. It's probably a dangerously high mix of both.

The man was the leader of the Republican Governor's Association. He was touted as a possible frontrunner for the GOP bid in 2012. He had made his mark as a fiscal conservative who railed against excessive government spending, which had become a lost art over the last few years.

Now this guy had the unmitigated audacity to skip country to Argentina so he can get his swerve on with an Argentinian mistress. Over Father's Day weekend, nonetheless.

I don't claim to be perfect. Nor do I hoist that expectation onto the backs of politicians that I support and/or admire. But come on...an affair?! Really?!

In today's day and age, people in the public eye are lucky to be able to go to the bathroom without someone blogging about/complaining about/praising the act within minutes. Anyone with political and public ambitions must always have the idea that they are constantly being observed in the backs of their minds...AT ALL TIMES. To believe otherwise indicates that you are not ready to be in the limelight and you certainly aren't ready to be paraded in front of the voting/watching public at all hours of the day...let alone have Presidential ambitions.

The act of adultry is as old as time itself. It'll be here till the end of days. But you'd think that more people would understand that our brains are located above our shoulders...not below our hips. Especially those that stand to lose everything important to them should they be caught (which is inevitable).

So thanks again, Mark Sanford. You've added another purple ring around the blackened eye of the American political scene.