This Sanford Story Just Won’t Die, Will It?

Now normally, when you get one of these evangelicals, political or not, caught out there in the open with their pants down and messin’ around they make a public statement that usually includes an apology, sometimes a tearful one, and then they clam up and get out of sight waiting and hoping for the furor to die down.

And it usually does, because America is fickle by nature, and usually by Day 3 something new has happened, like say, the drug-related death of the King of Pop, and like a bunch of fox hounds, off the newsies go barking down a new path.

But there is a trick to this. And the trick is you have to stop talking about it. A trick that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, and now his wife, have yet to learn.

It’s almost neurotic the way both Sanford and his wife can’t stop talking. First Sanford goes on record in an interview with an Associated Press reporter saying that he has had close encounters of a sexual kind with several other women who were also not his wife.

“There were a handful of instances wherein I crossed the lines I shouldn't have crossed as a married man, but never crossed the ultimate line.”

Crossed the ultimate line?

Is that actually what evangelicals call “doin’ the nasty?”

Actually I liked “hiking the Appalachian Trail” better.

All this did was bring all of those morally erect evangelicals back out again, demanding his resignation because apparently Mark Sanford is a repeat offender.

The man likes his ladies.

And then today, Jenny Sanford decided that she hasn’t yet had enough press or public exposure of the jilted wife who still holds her head high because she has the high moral ground, here.

But instead of looking every bit the lady whose pride is unbroken, she came out today and leveled a bony finger at the gay community. The gays ruined her marriage.

“‘Of course I’m not saying that Mark is gay,’ Sanford said, ‘but he may as well be. The moral decay in this country has claimed another victim and this time it was my family. Our marriage was perfect until these laws started passing around the country. Clearly the slow dissolution of the sanctity of marriage in America seeped into Mark’s psyche until he no longer felt compelled to abide by our vows.’”

In other words, I guess you can say that Jenny Sanford just slipped off of her proud public pedestal and is just another evangelical who runs to the Evangelical Republican play book and pulls out some spin.

In this case, Spin #13: when someone strays, blame the gays.

Because if you blame the gays for troubles that are obviously homegrown then you don’t have to blame yourself, right?

I ran this You Tube video some time back, but I think it’s time to put it back up as it has become relevant again.