Quit while you're behind

[trinityvixen]

Why won't he shut up already?

There is no good way to tell the public at large you've had an affair. But there are ways that are better than others. One of the worst ways to do it is to go into embarrassing detail about every liason ever and try to justify your bizarre behavior over the last one by saying that this affair was totally different than those other (!) affairs you've had before.

Is Mark Sanford committing public suicide slowly or what? He must believe that by trumping up how much he is in love with his current mistress makes his insanely stupid behavior make more sense. I get it--he thinks that the public will be more sympathetic if it looks not like he was a sex-crazed man in the midst of a of mid-life crisis but that he was so much in love that he couldn't help himself. Except that whether he was driven to disappear and leave no forwarding contact information because of his prick or his heart doesn't really matter when an entire state doesn't know where its governor is.

At this point, the details and defenses are just getting digustingly intimate. Really, dude. Stop already.

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

"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," he said.

Let me interpret this one for him...oral sex and handjobs, but no fucking except for the current mistress. That makes it all good, right? And how can you say you're in love with this other woman but are "commited" to falling back in love with your wife? I think that ship has sailed. You want to stay married, fine, but you and she both know you're going to cheat again. And I don't think there's much argument in staying together for the kids when your affair has been this public.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

And:
"Now I am frightened," he told the AP, describing his state of mind at the time. "It was before safe. But now it's not safe. We gotta put the genie back in the bottle."

So, this was fun when it was his private secret, but now that it's public, it's not fun anymore. Amazing how that works with so many affairs.

And hon, this genie's not going back in its bottle.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The Rude Pundit thinks as you do, (http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/) though, being the Rude One, he does it with much more vulgarity. I agree--there is some invisible line he thinks he crossed with this woman that he didn't with his previous affairs. It seems to me that he means that line is love. To everyone else, it means differentiation between acts. Nobody is saying it's not still totally douchey and no one is letting him off. Good luck with that, Governor.

The wife, for her part, seems to be more hostile than previous wives of cheaters trotted out alongside them. Good for her. Because there is no way this isn't totally awful in every way. And it's better she distance herself.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He doesn't seem to recognize that that particular euphemism he's using is code for you can't stop this train wreck. We never say "put the genie back in the bottle" about situations where one could cover things back up again.