Perhaps that's Meghan's take because of the type of tread on me snake she attracts. I have no sympathy for a man or women who cheats (get caught) while maintaining the notion to their "significant other" that they still love or care for them. If you are no longer committed to a marriage don't cheat, get a divorce! Save your spouse the humiliation ... JERK (Sanford and his ilk).

If Sanford really had found his "soulmate" and told his wife that he had to move to Argentina to fulfill his life, I might have some respect for him. As it stands, even Eliot Spitzer's behavior was more honest.

On the other hand, empathy is an important attribute these days, and a smarmy white guy who has led a rich life might be able to make a better decision than a wise Latina.

That all of the feminist, hate to have general statements without positive documented fact, made against them but have no problem at all making stupid generalizations about any male subject.  An affair requires two people (by her picture she would not know) and normally only one is male.  Notice there is no problem in the article about the women that knew he was married participation only that every male on the planet is the same kind of dog.  We need much more clorine in the california gene pool. 

I'm trying to figger this out.  Tell me if I got it right.

1.  A man sneaks around on his wife (and the entire State) to play snuggles with some hottie in Argentina.

2.  One man does it so all men are either cheats or potential cheats in their hearts.

3.  All women are gold diggers?

ACA 

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

I vote for she-male, man hater.  Yep, that's the ticket.

So all men are cheaters -- cads, even.  I bet there's no way that a guy would take the institution of marriage so seriously that he would remain a virgin until he got married; and plan to give himself no opportunity to stray afterwards, till death he doth part?

 Like...me, for example.

No way a guy lives a life like me.  As I have.  Knowing that my wife, in the hopeful event that I do get married, will have that much more trust in me, knowing that I haven't strayed even when I had made no vow to her.

Nah, that'd never happen.

Because her husband probably dreams about riding some other woman and slapping her titties around.

"Let him who would move the world, first move himself." -Socrates

"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po

You said apparently she feels "all men are adulterers" when she clearly said  "if not all men, quite a few of them?" 

I don't condone what Sanford did, but I feel sorry for him because first of all he is not as much of a hypocrite as Ensigns or Spitzer and second of all, just like the author said, quite a few men stray, such as Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, John McCain and Rudy Guiliani. They have all gone on to have successful political careers.

He had my vote

In my observations( listening to ladies and men talk) , the female is undoubtedly the most promiscuous. I could be mis-informed , but most steamy, sexually explicit media is better authored by the "fairer" sex.

"[A]m I [Meghan Daum of the L.A. Times] detecting just a little bit of -- gasp -- empathy?"

No, Meghan, I suspect you are projecting [again].  Even more than lying, this is probably the most dominant and predictable character trait of liberals.  Adultery does not offend liberals; but it is a club they use for beating conservatives.

- Relying upon the MSM for your information is like relying upon an embezzler to manage your portfolio.

Frankly, I'm surprised that ANYONE in the liberal media is showing a bit of sympathy for Mark Sanford.  Isn't the usual libmedia gameplan to vilify a Republican who strays, and empathize with the Dem, making the observation that, "All married men cheat - or at least they want to - because it's a biological imperative."  I remember back in the Clinton years the media was very quick to excuse his behavior with the notion that "Everyone does it."  But when a Republican gets caught with his pants down, they don't criticize the fact of cheating on the wife, they criticize the HYPOCRISY of pretending to be a conservative Christian while getting a little on the side.  Because in Libland the worst sin is hypocrisy.

IMHO, Jenny Sanford should kick him to the curb and make him stay there.  THAT would show standing up for family values - as well as not tolerating having a husband humiliate her in front of the entire nation.  Bad enough he has an affair, but to tell the media that the girlfriend is his "soulmate" and he will "try" to love his wife again!  Don't do Jenny any "favors" Mark. Give her whatever financial settlement she wants, get some psychiatric help and move on.  Your Brazilian girlfriend deserves you.

Rush just mentioned NBs and this story here...hehee

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart