“I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night’s light — but hey, that would be going into the
sexual details we spoke of” So said Sanford in but one of his email letters to his Argentinean friend turned lover.
If not for Gina Smith of The State Newspaper who had sat on this story since December, we’d have all been treated to Mr. Bottom Line blathering on endlessly about his disappearance, without a grain of truth to it. As it was, he went on aimlessly for approximately eight long minutes before cutting to the chase, and only because Gina Smith was sitting right there,having been the first to greet and discuss the matter with him when he disembarked from his five day disappearance.
It seemed odd that his wife merely shrugged his absence off with “he’s writing somewhere,” but we didn’t know then, that she’d kicked him out two weeks previously, and had known of his eight year Argentinean affair for months!
Why do we care about another philandering politician anyway? Perhaps some film clips which are surfacing provide the answer. Sanford was one of the first and loudest to denounce President Clinton, and has always been riding first class on the family values train. In his case, it was expected to take him all of the way to the V.P. spot next time around. It is still not clear whether his two previous trips to Argentina “in the sparking stage” as he so quaintly puts it, were on taxpayer dollars or not.