The State, a Columbia-based newspaper, released e-mails today allegedly
between Gov. Mark Sanford and his Latin lover, "Maria." While the South
Carolina governor's office did not deny the authenticity of the
e-mails, CNN is now reporting that The State has confirmed that the
e-mails from last July are, in fact, real. The married politician was
caught in an embarrassing lie following his disappearance last week,
when he claimed to be hiking in the Appalachian Mountains and was found
arriving at the airport from a trip in Argentina. Here are a couple of
the gems from the love letters between a farm boy in an "impossible
situation" with his exotic Argentinian love interest:"Maria:" "Don’t know why you think you bore me with the description of your farm. I am an urban girl but that doesn’t inhibit me from loving other things, specially if they are the ones you love."
Soon after, he realizes that the cowboy aesthetic is exotic to her and provides her with a description of his life as a farm boy:
Gov. Sanford: "To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the background, the tranquility that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds — and getting to build something with each scoop of dirt."
Following the foreplay, Sanford gets down to the nitty-gritty
Gov. Sanford: "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 at the steakhouse at dinner — and unlike you I would never do that!"
And then, like a good, moral Southern boy, he quotes the Bible... albeit one of the most quoted passages ever:
Gov. Sanford: "I looked to where I often look for advice and counsel, and in I Corinthians 13 it simply says that, 'Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude, Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice in the wrong, but rejoices in the right, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things.'
It's assumed that as a married man with children, he does not understand the concept of rejoicing "in the right" or the fact that his affair may in fact qualify as love that is "rude." When will politicians finally learn that they never get away with their scandalous affairs?
