Sanford's Follies

Governor Mark Sanford of my home state of South Carolina flew to Argentina for a week for an international booty call with an Argentine journalist. Should he resign? Yes. Should he even be given the option? No.

First, if his family can't trust him, how can we trust him? That's the first problem. Second, he flew, using my tax dollars, to another country for a booty call and did so without telling anybody. No one on his staff knew where he was or what was going on.

If I didn't show up for work for a week, I'd be fired. If I used workplace monies for something, anything, other than workplace spending, I'd be reprimanded and if it was as much money as it would take to fly to Argentina, I'd be fired. We need to stop having different expectations for politicians than the expectations that we in an average job are expected to uphold.

And bravo to wife Jenny for booting Mark to the curb. Enough of this tolerance for cheating political husbands...Bravo, ma'am...