Why She’s Fighting For Her Man
Last Friday, we wrote a story outlining how S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford was leading the fight to keep her embattled husband, Gov. Mark Sanford, from being run out of town on a rail in the wake of his admitted affair with Argentine lover Maria Belen Chapur.
We asserted at the time that Mrs. Sanford had initiated several private conversations with lawmakers and other opinion leaders in South Carolina, urging them to refrain from calling on her husband to resign.
Since then, we’ve heard from several additional sources who have spoken with Mrs. Sanford directly in the past few days – and all of them are confirming what we originally reported. Also, we’re hearing reports that Mrs. Sanford personally intervened last week with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham – who was on the verge of calling for Sanford to step down.
Obviously, after refusing to “stand by her man” at his meandering confessional – and the “devil-may-care” comments she initially made about his political future – Mrs. Sanford is clearly back in the “pro-Mark” camp. In fact, we’re hearing that absent her advocacy, the tidal wave of calls for the governor’s resignation last week likely would have broken on top of him, forcing him to step down.
Knowing this, now we have to ask several relevant questions …
First – why is she all of a sudden fighting for her husband’s political survival? After all, isn’t she the person who’s been hurt the most by his lies and betrayals?
Also, isn’t it obvious that the Sanford family’s interests would be best served by the governor stepping down and focusing on reconciliation?
That seems like a no-brainer, doesn’t it?
That’s what we thought .. but wait till you find out the answers we’ve uncovered to these questions.
Stay tuned …
Comments
By CNSYD on July 7th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
While Sanford is in office, politicians, the media, etc. will take her calls. Once Sanford is history, they will have no interest in her (unless she is supplying money). Therefore him remaining in office is the price of her access.
By William Hamilton on July 7th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
We are about to enter a zone of calculation so horrifying no one who cares about the people of South Carolina can watch it without disgust. The entire state is about to be brokered to help someone become Governor, to help settle a divorce and to preserve the Republican power structure. Great risks will be taken and the Christian religion is going to take a severe beating. This is principals be damned, win at any cost.
None of the people in power cares at all about the tens of thousands of people losing their jobs, their homes or their families. If our King David remains on the throne, there will be a pox on the land.
By 1+1=3 on July 7th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
isn’t it obvious
1. it’s the only leverage she has to keep in the marriage and in the state
2. for 18 mos she has the public, republican party and his staff making sure he can’t go AWOL again or on any more trips to Argentina
By Old Bike Dude on July 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Because everything is about fear, greed, and sex. She’s just understanding and forgiving enough to want her kids to inherit both her’s and Sanford’s money. Remember fear, greed, and sex. Evidently her fear of being seen as a naive pushover couldn’t match her greed or his sex.
It’s a damn shame. I thought for once a politicians wife would stand on principle, but no such case here.
By chimack on July 7th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
In Illinois our politicians prefer scandals that revolve around money so thanks for providing a change of pace with a scandalous love story.
Watch this video of Mrs. Sanford taped in April 2008 at the Dole Center at University of Kansas on the role of first ladies. There is a lot in it about this family.
Something about the marriage seems a little calculated, and career ambitious.
http://merlin.cc.ku.edu:8080/asxgen/dioplb/firstladysc.wmv
The audience questions at the end are pretty interesting in light of the current situation. The first questioner asked her about her reaction to Mrs. Spitzer’s response to Eliot’s situation.
By Knowledge Of... on July 7th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Does the first lady know that you were one of the first to call for the Lovernor’s head?
By madcock on July 7th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
She’s doing the same thing Hillary did. Putting up with her husband’s carousing to keep her political power.
I’m sure all of the Republicans who skewered Hillary will be equally tough on Mrs. King David.
LMTFAO!!!!!
By Jean on July 7th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I don’t think it’s fair to have us stay tuned… :(
But I think she’s fighting for her children’s sake. Those boys have gone through enough public spectacle as it is (of course it’s their father’s own doing) and they don’t need to have a “dropout” added to their image of their father. Really, is the alternative a better solution? There’s so many advantages of him staying than leaving – at least he will be more dedicated and with all eyes on him, he will have a better performance that his previous 6 years. Also, he won’t be wasting money on lame duck travel expenses to foreign countries – well, definitely not Argentina! :)
By Curt Loftis on July 7th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Mrs. Sanford is a bright and accomplished lady. She is also a person of high standards. She can be trusted to manage her life such that she is successful in her goals. Undoubtedly, she will do so in a manner befitting her station. I suspect she will navigate this maelstrom as successfully as humanly possible.
And perhaps, just perhaps, it is not our business to understand why she does a thing, but to simply accept it.
By lexintgonlady55 on July 7th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Nor will they have to worry about paying for a mortgage, electric bill, groceries, transportation or any other financial needs for the next 18 months – SC taxpayers will provide all their daily needs – sweet…but WRONG!!!! And if he stays in his full term, we the taxpayers get to pay his full retirement…double sweet and double WRONG…
By BIN News Editorial Staff on July 7th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Exclusive!
BIN News has confirmed sic(k) willie is in direct contact with markie mark sanfraud, tomtom, Ms. Jenny and a host of other sanfraud players on a very frequent schedule. Feeding us their cr@p.
Pimp us not, sic(k) willie.
By bo on July 7th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
she might be the cold snake in all of this. he found a hot, latin lover with some passion and couldn’t resist. he’s her puppet and has always been. she’s richer, smarter, more calculating, and he was her way to the spotlight. perhaps the narcissist focus has been on the wrong person.
By sic shillie on July 7th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
i said it all along. Jenny made the decision for mark and ALL of us in SC. he’s staying and there’s nothing any average schmuck south carolinian can say or do to change the diktaat of jenny, the real and only power in that marriage and apparently in the whole, and recently castrated, state. LOL even funnier on top of all this is the fact that her words of religiosity and appeals to the media about sparing her family the shame and her requests respect their privacy were all brilliantly calculated, machiavellian political maneuverings. based on the fact that she is obviously pulling all the strings, should not mark’s entire run as governor be viewed in the light that he has always been jenny’s sock puppet? she played the media and the sc political establishment like a fiddle and all the while bamboozled the sympathy out of the clueless public that has allowed her man to stay on despite the fact that 3 out of 4 people in the state want him gone. BRAVO JENNY! greatest political performance in a long time. Dont hate the player…
By liz on July 8th, 2009 at 7:00 am
The details are about to be released since the GOP cannot tell the truth no matter how hard they try….
There is not going to be a divorce, never was gonna be. Everyone was standing with the wrong person.
I believe I along with my family were hurt more by Governor Sanford’s actions than anyone in the state, that knows about it anyway. He has hurt other people, they just don’t understand it yet.
But the details are forthcoming in a couple of days folks.
Since the GOP hates We the People of this state, since the GOP cannot and will not tell the truth… I will .I can. I plan to.
By anonymous on July 8th, 2009 at 8:21 am
…”voted to censure Lovenator Sanfraud for his “repeated failures” to act according to the party’s core principles and said he breached the public’s trust”…
Sanfraud, who has repeatedly maintained that he won’t resign, said he “fully appreciates” the party’s position and he “intends to work diligently to earn back its trust.”
I, uh uh uh, appreciate uh uh uh …wait …I uh uh uh …fully appreciate …I fully appreciate the party’s position and uh uh uh …I intend to earn … uh uh uh …your trust …yep, that’s it …your trust. Trust me.
Wait ….let me finish … I going to spend the next …uh uh uh …eighteen months trying to get you to trust me.
Sir? uh Sir? How are you going to get people to trust you? uh uh uh …wait …let me finish …I’m going to stop talking …uh uh uh …that’s it, I’m just going to stop talking …uh uh uh …because if I stop talking then you should trust me …uh uh uh …where is my Delta SkyMiles statement?, I know I have some frequent flyer miles left, I know I do …uh uh uh …I …I …can’t keep my soulmate waiting too long. Ya’ll take care, ya here!
*********************
By anonymous on July 8th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Governor says soulmate is not his wife; keeps his job
“Things were calming down for Gov. Mark Sanford early last week. There were only a smattering of opportunistic calls for his resignation. Argentinian tan lines and “hiking trips” were heading off the front page.”
“Then, in an apparent attempt to really come clean and put this whole mess behind him, Sanford gave another rambling, wounded-heart interview, professing his love for his mistress while promising to try to warm up to the old ball and chain.”
“Contradicting his remarks from the earlier press conference, Sanford said he’d “crossed the line” with a handful of other women before meeting Argentinian Maria Belen Chapur, whom he tearfully called his soulmate.”
“This was a whole lot more than a simple affair,” he said. “It’s a love story … a forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.”
Sanfraud has “promised to repay the state more than $8,000 for that leg of the trip.” of the so-called “South American trade mission.”
“A Statehouse rally to call for his resignation is planned for Thurs., July 9.”
Sanfraud “offered a different tune when responding to other politicians’ sex scandals, even after he was privately “crossing the line” with other women.”
In 1998, regarding the Clinton scandal, Sanfraud said: “I don’t know how that could be good for anybody,” he told The Post and Courier. “I don’t think it’s good to have anyone who’s wounded in that high an office.”
“You would set in place an awfully cancerous growth if you let people out there think, ‘I know the president lies so I can too,’” Sanford told the Associated Press.
Sanfraud further said: “The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representative government, because it undermines trust,” he said. “And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.”
“What these guys start thinking is they’re above the law. You saw it with the president,” Sanfraud said.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/sanford-scandal-week-two/Content?oid=1235539
***************************
By CNSYD on July 8th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Curt Loftis, thanks so much for your post. I knew Sanfraud was King David (because he told us so) but I don’t know Jennyfraud’s true Biblical identity. Please enlighten us mere mortals.
By Brandon on July 8th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I think she has two reasons:
First, and foremost, she wants hers sons to be able to go through life and be able to say, “My father was a two term Governor of SC”, hoping this will fade into the category of “recent unpleasantness”.
Secondly, she can’t stand the idea of Andre as Governor of SC.
By yarrrrr on July 8th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I already said in the other thread that there was no real situation where she would want him out if you really thought about it…
I think your source is feeding you crap if s/he thinks that Lindsey Graham was about to pull the plug but then Jenny intervened… if anything Graham, Davis, Mark, and Jenny were all coordinating… and if Jenny didn’t go along with it Graham and Davis would politely tell him to go…
By Jeffy on July 8th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Shut up BIN. Don’t you have clean your room before mom gets home.
If Cubby told Sanford to stay, then Sanford will stay. Very simple.
By scooter on July 8th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I am so sick of these two people. She has always worn the pants in the family-maybe why he strayed. I do not care if she wants him back, but we do not want him. She has money and Right Wingers are always about money. I did watch the interview that chimack refers to and it was weird. I would have sworn that she had very little affection for him, even before this all broke. She has even said their relationship was not passionate at first, but just friends. Our state is in a very bad place, where money and weak minded people run things.
By SAY WHAT? on July 8th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Every move she makes is for her personal political future, IMHO. It’s not for him, not for money, not for the party, not for the boys..and damn sure not for the citizens of SC. She has a personal goal I think to be in the US Congress or be Governor… I don’t even think she is interested in the SC Legislature..Power, the trappings of power, and ego. She is cold, calculating, devious, which apparently Mark’s Argentine lover is not. And you know what? I am beginning to understand exactly why he took a lover.
By Jackie Isgett on July 8th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Enough of the Sanford fury, lies and neglect of office. It appears our
poor Governor thinks he is above the law – in that he was absent from the
state with no-one in charge of the State’s business. Go to your mistress and a whole lot of SC citizens and taxpayers will say good riddance. The
powers of authority should strip you of your retirement and double check
those travel vouchers (or better yet – let me examine them) and report to
the people that pay your salary! You are a complete joke and such an
embarrassment to all the taxpayers and citizens of South Carolina. Your
children will never have any respect for you as you are such a poor example for them. Jenny will survive and get the last laugh!!!
By scooter on July 8th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I could not take another 4 years of a Sanford. Neither one will be acceptable to me as any representative of this state. Sorry, but I hope they both go back to their home states and run for whatever they want. Just not here. Please somebody do something. What a manipulator she is. First, to get the press wondering where he is, then to say she has the boys to think of and does not care about his political career. Now, she calls for people to keep him in office. Her plans are going well. Now she is the little darling of the GOP. Junk! Watch out for her. She is smarter than Mark, and is more creative. Dangerous!
By BothrLiars on August 15th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Mrs. Sanford had initiated several private conversations with lawmakers and other opinion leaders in South Carolina, urging them to refrain from calling on her husband to resign.
Mrs. Sanford told reporters when this story was unfolding that her husband could worry about his career..and all the while she is in the background making her calls… They deserve each other.