What Mark Sanford seemed to be trying to say is that he screwed up, in the biggest possible way, because he lost his bearings. He lost his self-control. He was indulgent. He forgot that there were other humans in the world. Yet in the constant flow of abuse, joke-making, and grand conclusions about his failings, it seemed everyone having a good time pointing at his self-indulgence was also engaging in a form of it.
Governor Sanford has done a bad thing and he's going to pay dearly for it. But I'm not writing him off because of it. If we end up learning that it's part of a pattern or that he systematically used the privileges of his office to obstruct legitimate inquiry into his conduct, that's another story. But I doubt it's going to happen. I think we're going to end up with a reasonably good human being who made some bad mistakes and caused his family a lot of pain.
I expect that Sanford will resign. He clearly doesn't care about his political future. If he spends a couple of years working in a think tank, he'll have a chance of a comeback, like Newt. If he needs money, he can write a book.
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