(Do not judge me. This is how I choose to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day Arrr Maties!)
Remember Mark Sanford, former Congressman, Governor of South Carolina, current Congressman, and the worlds most infamous Appalachian Trail hiker?
Well, I think that he would make the 2016 Republican Presidential primaries a very amusing spectator sport.
I actually think that there is a chance that he might run if he were convinced that there were people would support him, because he appears to extremely narcissistic, even by the standards of Congress.
Do it for Jon Stewart. Do it for Stephen Colbert. Do it for Jimmy Fallon. Do it for Conan O'Brien. Do it for Larry Wilmore. Do it for John Oliver.
Do it for me, goddammit!!!!!
As a refresher, while Governor the "family values" politician vanished for six days (his spokesman said that he was "hiking the Appalachjian Trail") and was later discovered to have gone to Argentina to conduct an assignation with his mistress, whom he later declared to be his "soul mate". (later his fiancee)
Well, now he has broken up with his "soul mate" ... over Facebook:
The South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford, a former governor of the state who in 2009 lost that post after a disappearance and revelations of an affair, on Friday wrote and posted a 2,346-word Facebook post about his divorce.
Sanford’s marriage came to an end when he was serving as governor but went missing for several days, in order to visit a woman he described as his “soul mate”, in Argentina. According to the post, that relationship has also now broken up.
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In the Facebook post, which prompted an intense reaction on social media, Sanford said he felt obligated to share this information with his constituents because their taxes fund his job. He also wanted to give his side of the story on reports about divorce proceedings, which have in recent weeks included Jenny Sanford’s demands that her ex-husband undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
“I cannot do this anymore,” he wrote. “In all life there comes a point wherein lines must be drawn in the way that we attempt to respond in ways that don’t invite more in the way of conflict and add more in the way of modeling Christ’s humility in giving in every instance.
“I’ll never get that mix right, none of us do, but I believe it’s what we are to pursue in all of our responses to the inevitable reality of conflict in our lives.”
Sanford’s post includes information about his relationship with María Belén Chapur, the Argentinian woman he visited during those mysterious days in 2009, an absence the governor’s aides attempted to cover up by saying he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. That bizarre adventure torpedoed Sanford’s previously talked-up chances of ascending to higher office, and resulted in the end of his marriage.
What's more, he slams his wife in the post,
just after he filed for a gag order against her.
It took him 2,346 words, but Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) announced Friday that he's hiring a lawyer to deal with a years-long divorce from his ex-wife and ending his engagement to his fiancee.
And he did it all on Facebook.
Shortly before posting his message online, Sanford also filed a motion requesting a gag order against his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, that will be heard by a judge on Monday.
Seriously, the possibilities for humor (or humo
ur in the case of John Oliver) are endless.