South Carolina second-term Governor, Mark Sanford, Chair of the Republican Governor’s Association, reported to be a leading GOP contender for the 2012 Presidential nomination, and famous for his championing “family values”, and for condemning fellow Republicans who are homosexual or have extra marital affairs, today made a rambling, tearful confession of his own infidelities. While he was alleged to have been hiking the Appalachian Trail, he was in fact in Argentina visiting his mistress. Sweet!

I have three points that I’d like to interject at this point which have been overlooked entirely by other media outlets.

1 The weather this past week has been great, perfect for hiking and Mark Sanford has been in Buenos Aires where it has been wet and between 4 and 9 degrees Celsius. Hasn’t he suffered enough?

2 He missed the Father’s Day 5K in Rehoboth Beach and no one picked up his T-shirt.

3 The guy is a bit of a hypocrite, not only because he champions “family values” but he has been publicly critical of his Republican colleagues who have “strayed” and in the case of toe tapper, Larry Craig, Mark Sanford was actually angry and totally missed the humor.

It’s this last point that guarantees his political survival. Now, because his wife was not at his side during his apology, he may have to do a stint in rehab from which he will emerge with his faith in Christ, stronger than ever. As for the hypocrisy, Barack Obama smokes but championed anti-smoking legislation. And no one ever got cancer from second-hand adultery.

S.C. Governor, Mark Sanford, holding a chart illustrating the decreasing frequency of his marital infidelities.