Life Lessons with Mark Sanford

Here’s a great learning opportunity, kids.  It’s a great chance to learn about how NOT to behave as a high-profile grown-up.

Over Father’s Day Weekend, the governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, a Republican, told his staff and apparently his wife that he was going hiking all alone in the wilderness.  Just to get some “me” time, I guess.  It turns out that he flew to Argentina to meet a woman he’d been having an affair with.

I’m not sure how someone comes to the conclusion that something this bizarre is a good idea, and then actually executes that idea.  You’re a governor.  You’re a potential 2012 presidential candidate.  You tell everybody you’re going hiking, but you actually drive your car to the airport and fly to Buenos Aires.  You’re missing for 4 days.  You come back and say you were just down there for a drive.  But it’s clearly a load of bull, so the next day you admit an affair.  You lied to the people who work for you.  You lied to your wife and kids.  You undermined your party.  You undermined your values.  You undermined your country.  YOU.  CANNOT.  DO.  THIS.

But it’s done.  I hope everybody can learn something meaningful from the idiocy that’s been revealed here.