Gov. Mark Sanford, or, "The Walkin’ Dude", for you Stephen King fans, has given "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" a new and unwelcome meaning, when Republican family values
advocate Sanford used it as an unlikely cover for visiting his mistress in Argentina. His escapade certainly qualifies him for the number four spot in the Whack Job Jamboree 2009.
The only person grateful to Sanford is likely to be fellow Family Values peddler Sen. John Ensign, whose major whoopsie was hitting the press when Sanford’s "hike" became major news. Let it be a lesson to us all, if you can’t stop being a hypocrite, be aware your email is never private. Keith reads a touching email from an obviously love-struck Sanford, or as far as he can until it becomes XX rated. It was just…moving, with references to "beauty, magnificent gentle
kisses, tan lines," that sort of thing. He wrote that he could go on but digresses, does he ever digress about the " hopelessly impossible situation of love," – after the double X stuff of course. Mercifully the very funny comedian Christian Finnegan is on hand to lend levity while Keith presumably composes himself, as do we all in our own way. What of Sanford? He’s still in office, much to his party’s dismay, whom I suspect offered him tickets to Argentina. Laudably, his wife is not standing by her – man, and we have no word on Maria. I hate not knowing the ending of a story.