Bad Idea

One of my favorite commercial parodies from the late 80s/early 90s SNL creative zenith was the following, showing a bunch goofballs talking about bad ideas in their cool new jeans:




I was reminded of this earlier when I read the AP story about the new revelations surrounding SC Govenor Mark Sanford and his mistress in Argentina. The horse is out of the barn with the affair now pubic, and he's trying to save his marriage. Yet he goes public with the following gem of a quote:

"In emotional interviews with the AP over two days, he said he would die 'knowing that I had met my soul mate.' "

Um, don't know about you, but I think I can smell the burnt rubber eminating from Jenny Sanford's car as she speeds away from this debacle of a situation.

Turning serious, it is a sad story, and regardless of your political leanings, he does have hard questions to answer to the people of South Carolina about potential misuse of his office and/or funds on this most recent trip to Argentina.

But for the life of me, I can't understand why he would put all of this out there for the public to know so soon after the news broke. I would think a memoir or book later on could go into detail about his feelings and the fact that he views this love story as "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day."

Furthermore, how does that make Jenny Sanford feel know that she is not her husband's soul mate?

I hope the Sanfords can some how find peace and resolution in their family, and that he can get back to his day job of running a state. If he's smart, if he's asked about this again, the only two words out of his mouth should be "No Comment".