I’ve been trying to find something humorous to say about the seventh layer of insanity swarming around missing South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford but, well, I’ll just leave it to Wonkette:
What in holy Hell has Mark Sanford been up to? He did NOT go nude tree-humping with a bunch of federally funded nature queers on the Appalachian Trail this weekend; instead, he went to Buenos Aires. Anybody who has left the house thinking they’d like to go on a local nature hike and ended up spending the weekend in an exotic South American capital can agree that this is a perfectly normal switcheroo!Update: Here’s a really weird tidbit:A single South Carolina newspaper cornered Sanford this morning at the Atlanta airport, which he flew into so that he could avoid being pestered by this bothersome press corps that demands to know where a state’s chief executive is every single second of the frigging day.
Sanford said he decided not to return via the Columbia airport to avoid the media. The State Media Company was the only media who greeted Sanford this morning.Bravo, The State Media Company! Who do they know that hates Sanford enough to rat him out like that?
When asked why his staff said he was on the Appalachian Trail, Sanford replied, “I don’t know.”Sanford later said “in fairness to his staff,” he had told them he might go hiking on the Appalachian Trail.
OH WELL THEN.
So here is the question: does anybody actually believe that he went off for a few days to “decompress” following a difficult legislative session when his wife issues ominous quotes about his needing to be alone to do some writing, and then asks the press to “leave us to our privacy”? Does that really sound like a family that is suffering, emotionally, due to politics?
The governor’s vehicle parked at a South Carolina airport had a “baseball cap, running shoes, sunscreen, a pair of shorts, a canvas bag and a sleeping bag” inside. Did Sanford intend to come home and pretend that he actually was on the Appalachian Trail during his absence?Update 2: Hmm, there may be a live boy/dead girl angle to this after all:
Things are still murky on the Mark Sanford story. But it’s looking increasingly likely that Sanford’s trip to Argentina was about more than a scenic drive down the coast.
“There is some evidence he was not alone,” a source in South Carolina politics told TPMmuckraker. “The other shoe’s gonna drop. I believe there’s a reason he wanted to drop his SLED detail.”
According to the source, a second car was identified at the Columbia airport, next to the SUV Sanford is believed to have used. Two additional sources in South Carolina politics said the same thing.
Separately, Will Folks, a former spokesman for Sanford who now runs a South Carolina political blog, is reporting that, according to a source, the Sanfords have been having problems in their marriage and have “been in marital counseling for several weeks now.”
We should have some more information on this soon. Sanford’s office has called a 2pm press conference, and Politico’s Mike Allen tweets that according to the South Carolina press, the “woman question will be asked directly and clinically (no parsing).”
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